Wikipedia API — search, summaries & content (no key)
Pricing
from $2.00 / 1,000 wikipedia queries
Search Wikipedia, get clean article summaries (with thumbnail + link), and pull plain-text content in any language. Great for agents and RAG. Clean HTTP API + MCP, no key. Pay per query.
You can access the Wikipedia API — search, summaries & content (no key) 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 API & Integrations in Apify Console.
1from apify_client import ApifyClient2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")6
7# Prepare the Actor input8run_input = {9 "q": "artificial intelligence",10 "title": "Argentina",11}12
13# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish14run = client.actor("synthetic.ia/wikipedia-api").call(run_input=run_input)15
16# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)17print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")18for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():19 print(item)20
21# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-startThe Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use Wikipedia API — search, summaries & content (no key) API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.
Install the apify-client
$pip install apify-clientOther API clients include: