Wikipedia Scraper — Articles, Summaries & Views

Search Wikipedia in any language edition and get article summaries, intro extracts, short descriptions, thumbnails — and monthly or daily pageview trends — in one actor. Look up specific titles or run full-text searches. Free, keyless Wikimedia APIs.

Perfect for research, content generation, LLM training data, popularity/trend analysis and knowledge-base building.

What you get

Per article (enrichment toggled by options):

• Base (search) — title, pageId, wordCount, snippet (plain text), lastEdit, url
• Summary (includeSummary) — description, extract (intro text), thumbnail, coordinates, lang
• Pageviews (includePageviews) — pageviews[] of { date, views } plus totalViews over the window

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
query	string	—	Full-text search across Wikipedia articles
titles	array	—	Fetch specific article titles directly
language	string	en	Wikipedia language edition, e.g. de, fr, ro
includeSummary	boolean	true	Fetch description, extract and thumbnail
includePageviews	boolean	false	Fetch pageview counts per article
pageviewsGranularity	enum	monthly	monthly or daily
pageviewsStart / pageviewsEnd	string	~12mo window	YYYYMMDD range for pageviews
maxResults	integer	100	Cap on articles from search

Provide a query and/or titles.

Example input

{"query":"large language model","includeSummary":true,"maxResults":100}

Popularity of specific topics:

{"titles":["ChatGPT","Bitcoin","Taylor Swift"],"includePageviews":true,"pageviewsGranularity":"monthly"}

Non-English edition:

{"query":"inteligență artificială","language":"ro","includeSummary":true,"maxResults":50}

Output (one article, summary + pageviews on)

Fields below are the real normalizer output:

{
  "title": "ChatGPT",
  "pageId": 68675117,
  "wordCount": 14230,
  "snippet": "ChatGPT is a generative artificial intelligence chatbot...",
  "lastEdit": "2026-07-10T14:22:11Z",
  "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChatGPT",
  "description": "Chatbot developed by OpenAI",
  "extract": "ChatGPT is a generative artificial intelligence chatbot developed by OpenAI...",
  "thumbnail": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/ChatGPT_logo.svg/330px-ChatGPT_logo.svg.png",
  "coordinates": null,
  "lang": "en",
  "pageviews": [
    { "date": "2026060100", "views": 18234510 },
    { "date": "2026070100", "views": 17540221 }
  ],
  "totalViews": 35774731
}

description/extract/thumbnail appear only with includeSummary; pageviews/totalViews only with includePageviews.

Why this actor

• Three signals in one — full-text search, article summaries, and pageview time-series.
• Popularity trends — the pageviews angle most Wikipedia actors skip.
• Any language, keyless — every language edition via the public Wikimedia APIs.

Pricing

Pay per result — $1.50 per 1,000 results (one result = one article with its nested summary and pageviews). No subscription or platform fees.

Related actors

• CrossRef Scraper / arXiv Scraper — scholarly works and preprints.
• Open Library Scraper — books and ISBNs.

Notes & limits

• Pageviews default to roughly the last 12 months; set pageviewsStart/pageviewsEnd (YYYYMMDD) to widen or narrow.
• Public data via the Wikimedia APIs; text is available under Wikipedia's licensing (attribution applies). This is an independent tool, not affiliated with the Wikimedia Foundation. You are responsible for compliant use of the output.