💪 wger Exercise Database Scraper

🚀 Export the open-source fitness exercise catalog in seconds. Pull 845+ exercises with primary and secondary muscle targets, equipment, multilingual descriptions, images, and videos. No API key, no registration, no manual CSV wrangling.

The wger Exercise Database Scraper exports the community-maintained wger.de fitness catalog and returns 19 fields per record, including exercise name, body category, equipment, primary and secondary muscles, full description, license attribution, image gallery, and video links. The underlying dataset is one of the most widely cited open fitness references and has been maintained by a global network of personal trainers, athletes, and fitness app developers for over a decade.

The catalog covers 9 body categories, 12 equipment types, 16 named muscle groups, and 30 translation languages, from major compound lifts down to mobility and rehab movements. This Actor makes that data downloadable as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML in under five minutes. All filters run on the server, so you skip the parser engineering entirely.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Fitness app builders, personal trainers, gym software, sports scientists, rehab clinicians, content creators, e-learning platforms	Workout-builder catalogs, exercise libraries, muscle-group autocomplete, multi-language fitness apps, AI workout planners, gym CMS sync

📋 What the wger Exercise Database Scraper does

Four filtering workflows in a single run:

• 🌍 Full catalog export. Every translated exercise in the wger database.
• 🗣️ Language filter. Pick one of 30 translation languages including English, German, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Korean, and Arabic.
• 🏷️ Category filter. Restrict to one of 9 body regions: Abs, Arms, Back, Calves, Cardio, Chest, Legs, Shoulders.
• 🏋️ Equipment filter. Filter by 12 equipment types: Barbell, Dumbbell, Kettlebell, Resistance band, Pull-up bar, Bench, Gym mat, Swiss Ball, Bodyweight, and more.
• 💪 Muscle filter. Filter by 16 named anatomical muscle groups (Pectoralis major, Latissimus dorsi, Quadriceps femoris, etc.).

Each record includes identifiers (exerciseId, uuid), naming and aliases, anatomical targets (primaryMuscles and secondaryMuscles), equipment list, full HTML description, CC-BY-SA 4.0 license attribution, image gallery, video links, and source URLs.

💡 Why it matters: clean, structured exercise data is the backbone of every workout app, gym CMS, personal-training platform, and AI coach. Building your own pipeline means writing HTML parsers, normalizing muscle taxonomies, and chasing translations. This Actor skips all of that and keeps your library fresh on every run.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: aliases, category, createdAt, description, detailUrl, equipment, exerciseId, images, imageUrl, language, license, licenseAuthor, name, primaryMuscles, scrapedAt, secondaryMuscles, updatedAt, uuid, videos. These field names come straight from the actor's dataset schema, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

🚀 How to use

1. 📝 Sign up. Create a free account with $5 credit (takes 2 minutes).
2. 🌐 Open the Actor. Go to the wger Exercise Database Scraper page on the Apify Store.
3. 🎯 Set input. Pick a language, category, equipment, or muscle (or leave blank for all), and set maxItems.
4. 🚀 Run it. Click Start and let the Actor collect your data.
5. 📥 Download. Grab your results in the Dataset tab as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

⏱️ Total time from signup to downloaded dataset: 3-5 minutes. No coding required.

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⚠️ Disclaimer: this Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by wger.de or its contributors. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. Only publicly available open fitness data is collected, with attribution to the CC-BY-SA 4.0 license preserved on every record.

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