Wikipedia Scraping API
Extract article content, summaries, infoboxes, and references from Wikipedia. Access the world's largest free encyclopedia programmatically.
Use Cases
How teams use this API to build powerful applications
Knowledge Extraction
Build knowledge bases and extract structured information for AI applications.
Research Automation
Gather background information and references for academic or business research.
Content Enrichment
Enhance applications with authoritative information from Wikipedia.
Entity Recognition
Extract entities, relationships, and facts from infoboxes and articles.
API Endpoints
Available endpoints for the Wikipedia API
/v1/wikipedia/article Get Article
Extract full article content with formatting.
Parameters
title string required Article title language string Language code (default: en) /v1/wikipedia/summary Get Summary
Get article summary and introduction.
Parameters
title string required Article title /v1/wikipedia/search Search Articles
Search Wikipedia for articles by keyword.
Parameters
query string required Search query /v1/wikipedia/infobox Get Infobox
Extract structured data from article infoboxes.
Parameters
title string required Article title Features
What makes this API powerful and reliable
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about the Wikipedia API
Can I access Wikipedia in other languages?
Yes, we support all Wikipedia language editions. Just specify the language code.
Do you extract citations and references?
Yes, we can extract all citations, references, and external links from articles.
Can I get article revision history?
We extract current versions. Historical data may be available through additional endpoints.
Is the data structured or raw HTML?
We provide both structured JSON data and clean text content, not raw HTML.
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