Wikipedia Article Summary

What it does

This free actor fetches clean Wikipedia article summaries in any language through the official Wikimedia REST API. Give it a list of article titles and a language edition (en, fr, de, es, …) and get, for each article, the canonical title, a one-line description, the intro extract, page type, thumbnail image, GPS coordinates (for places), the Wikidata item id, the page URL and the last-edit timestamp. Ideal for enriching datasets, knowledge panels, chatbots and research pipelines. You only pay your Apify platform usage.

Input

Field	Type	Description
titles	array of strings	Article titles to look up. One item per title.
language	string	Wikipedia language code (en, fr, de, …).

Output

One item per title:

{
  "query": "Alan Turing",
  "status": "found",
  "lang": "en",
  "title": "Alan Turing",
  "description": "English computer scientist (1912–1954)",
  "extract": "Alan Mathison Turing was an English mathematician ...",
  "thumbnail": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/...jpg",
  "latitude": null,
  "longitude": null,
  "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing",
  "last_edit": "2026-01-04T10:22:00Z"
}

status is found, not_found or error. Redirects (e.g. common misspellings) are followed automatically.

Use cases

• Enrich datasets and CRMs with short descriptions and images.
• Build knowledge panels, tooltips or chatbot answers.
• Get coordinates and thumbnails for places and landmarks.
• Multilingual content research and summarisation pipelines.

Limitations & fair use

Data comes from the Wikimedia REST API under CC BY-SA / GFDL — attribute Wikipedia when you display content. A descriptive User-Agent and a polite delay between requests are used, per Wikimedia's API etiquette. Very high volumes should be rate-limited accordingly.

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