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Wikipedia Articles Scraper

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Wikipedia Articles Scraper

Wikipedia Articles Scraper

Pull Wikipedia articles by title, free-text search, or category. Returns summary, full article HTML with sections, search results, or category members via the public MediaWiki REST + Action API (no auth, no proxy).

Pricing

Pay per usage

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Developer

Mori

Mori

Maintained by Community

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1

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2 days ago

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Pull Wikipedia articles by title or category. Returns article body, summary, links, categories, infobox data via the public MediaWiki REST API. No auth, no proxy..

What it does

  • Extracts ITEM_TYPE from URL_LIST
  • Outputs structured JSON (SCHEMA_LINK)
  • Handles pagination, retries, proxy rotation out of the box

Input

FieldRequiredDescription
startUrlsyesList of URLs to scrape
maxRequestsPerRunnoCap on total requests (default 100)
proxyConfigurationnoProxy settings (default: Apify Proxy)

Output

One record per source page:

{
"url": "...",
"title": "...",
"items": [...],
"scrapedAt": "ISO-8601"
}

Pricing

Free tier: 100 runs/month. Pro: $X/mo.

Limitations

  • Static HTML only (no JS rendering — use the playwright template for SPAs).
  • Single-domain by default. Set enqueueLinks globs to crawl.

Changelog

  • 0.1.0 — initial release.