Wikipedia Scraper — Search Articles & Extract Content
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Wikipedia Scraper — Search Articles & Extract Content
Search Wikipedia articles, get summaries, and extract full page content via the free MediaWiki API. No authentication required — perfect for research, AI training data, and knowledge base building.
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Wikipedia Scraper
Search Wikipedia articles and extract page content via the free MediaWiki API — no authentication required.
Features
- Search — Find articles by keyword across any language Wikipedia
- Summary — Get the introductory paragraph of any article
- Full Extract — Get the complete plain-text content of any article
Input
| Field | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| mode | select | search | search, summary, extract |
| query | string | — | Keyword to search for |
| title | string | — | Exact article title (summary/extract) |
| limit | int | 10 | Max results (1-50) |
| lang | string | en | Wikipedia language code (en, fr, de, etc.) |
Output
Search — pageid, title, snippet, size, timestamp, url, lang
Summary/Extract — pageid, title, extract, url, lang
Use Cases
- Build AI training datasets from Wikipedia
- Research and knowledge base extraction
- Multi-language content analysis
- NLP and entity recognition pipelines
Automation & Integration
- Schedule daily crawls via Apify's built-in scheduler
- Connect to Make.com, Zapier, or n8n via Apify integrations
- Export to Google Sheets from the Apify dataset
- Combine with other scrapers for cross-source knowledge graphs
