Open Web Source Pack

Collects licensed, citation-ready source rows from two free public APIs: Wikipedia REST and Crossref Works. Each row is title, URL, a verbatim quote (Wikipedia extract or Crossref abstract — never generated), license, source id, and retrieved_at. HTTP only. No browser, no proxy, no crawler, no paid keys. Not a Website Content Crawler clone.

Store categories: AI · Developer tools · Open source

Why use it

• Drop citeable source packs into RAG / agent pipelines without crawling the open web.
• Verbatim quotes only — never LLM-written summaries.
• License string on every row so reuse stays accountable.

Input

Field	Type	Default	Notes
query	string	required	Topic text, 1–500 chars. Not a URL.
maxRows	integer	10	Min 1, max 50. Split across selected sources.
sources	array	wikipedia, crossref	Subset of wikipedia, crossref.
wikipediaLang	string	en	Pattern ^[a-z]{2,12}$. Invalid values fall back to en.
wikipediaTitles	string[]	[]	If non-empty, skip Wikipedia search and fetch only these titles (capped by wiki quota).
crossrefMailto	string	optional	Crossref polite-pool contact. Not an API key.
includeAbstracts	boolean	true	If false, quote is null. Quotes are never generated.

Example input:

{
  "query": "retrieval-augmented generation",
  "maxRows": 10,
  "sources": ["wikipedia", "crossref"],
  "wikipediaLang": "en",
  "wikipediaTitles": [],
  "includeAbstracts": true
}

Output

Each default-dataset row:

Field	Type	Meaning
title	string	Wikipedia page title or Crossref work title.
url	string	Canonical Wikipedia article URL or Crossref / DOI URL.
quote	string or null	Verbatim Wikipedia extract or Crossref abstract. Null when missing or includeAbstracts is false. Never LLM-generated.
license	string	Wikipedia license.title plus license.url when present, or the first Crossref license[0].URL, or Crossref metadata (no work license deposited).
source	string	wikipedia or crossref.
retrieved_at	string	ISO-8601 UTC timestamp of the fetch.

Pricing (live on Store)

Pay per usage — the Actor is free to start; you only pay Apify platform usage (compute / storage). There is no Actor-level PPE charge live yet.

Intended PPE (not live — blocked on payout billing)

When sammss payout / billing details are complete in Console, switch to Pay per event (no PPE+usage):

Event	Price	How it is charged
apify-actor-start	$0.00005	Platform synthetic start. This Actor does not call Actor.charge.
apify-default-dataset-item	$0.01	Platform synthetic item on each Actor.push_data write.

minimalMaxTotalChargeUsd = 0.01005. Repo file: .actor/pay_per_event.json.

Resources

• Default memory: 512 MB (min 256, max 1024)
• Standby: off
• Limited permissions
• Runtime: Python 3.13 (apify/actor-python:3.13), HTTP only

Limits

• maxRows is a cap, not a guarantee.
• One source failing does not abort the other.
• Wikipedia reuse follows CC BY-SA. Crossref rows point at the deposited work license.