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Wikimedia Commons Media Scraper

Pull media file metadata from Wikimedia Commons by search query, category, or exact File titles. Each record carries the full image URL, thumbnail, dimensions, MIME type, byte size, license, author, and categories. Handy for media libraries, attribution, and open content research.

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You can access the Wikimedia Commons Media Scraper programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in Integrations settings in Apify Console.

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1from apify_client import ApifyClient
2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")
6
7# Prepare the Actor input
8run_input = {
9    "search": "cat",
10    "titles": ["File:Mona Lisa.jpg"],
11    "maxItems": 10,
12}
13
14# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
15run = client.actor("parseforge/wikimedia-commons-media-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)
16
17# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
18print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
19for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
20    print(item)
21
22# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

Wikimedia Commons Media Scraper API in Python

The Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use Wikimedia Commons Media Scraper API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the apify-client

$pip install apify-client

Other API clients include:

Wikimedia Commons Media Scraper API in JavaScript

Wikimedia Commons Media Scraper API through CLI

Wikimedia Commons Media Scraper OpenAPI definition

Wikimedia Commons Media Scraper API

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MIME Type Detector

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Stas Persiianenko

Wikimedia Pageviews Scraper

crawlerbros/wikimedia-pageviews-scraper

Scrape Wikipedia & Wikimedia pageview metrics from the official REST API. Get daily/monthly view counts per article, most-viewed (top) articles for any day or month, and project-wide aggregate traffic - across 40+ languages and sister projects.

Crawler Bros

OpenVerse Image Scraper

crawlerbros/pixabay-scraper

Search millions of Creative Commons licensed images from Flickr, Wikimedia, and museums via OpenVerse (api.openverse.org). Free, no API key required.

Crawler Bros

Kaggle Datasets Scraper

parseforge/kaggle-scraper

Extract Kaggle dataset metadata at scale: titles, owners, descriptions, tags, license, file types, sizes, downloads, views, and votes. Filter by search, tag, user, file type, or size.

ParseForge