Wikipedia Article Summary
Pricing
Pay per usage
Fetch clean Wikipedia article summaries in any language via the official REST API: title, description, extract, thumbnail, GPS coordinates, Wikidata id and page URL. Free, batch-friendly.
You can access the Wikipedia Article Summary 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 Integrations settings 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 = { "titles": [9 "Grenoble",10 "Alan Turing",11 "Photosynthesis",12 ] }13
14# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish15run = client.actor("vigilant_jasmine/wikipedia-article-summary").call(run_input=run_input)16
17# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)18print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])19for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():20 print(item)21
22# 📚 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 Article Summary API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.
Install the apify-client
$pip install apify-clientOther API clients include: