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Wikipedia Scraper: Articles, Summaries & Pageviews

Scrape Wikipedia articles in any language: search results, clean summaries with images and monthly pageview counts. Export CSV, JSON, Excel. No login.

Input: 7 fields, none required. Billed per event on the free Apify plan: Article summary $0.012, Search result $0.01, Pageview month $0.01. Results export as JSON, CSV or Excel. Last updated 2026-10-04.

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STATUS: PRODUCTION
INPUT FIELDS: 7
REQUIRED: 0
PRICING: PAY PER EVENT
UPDATED: 2026-10-04
OUTPUT: JSON, CSV, Excel

01 / INPUT

What you can configure.

FIELDTYPEDESCRIPTION

LanguagelanguagestringWikipedia language edition code, for example en, es, de, fr, pt or ja. Any of the 300+ editions works; the code is the subdomain of wikipedia.org. default: "en"

Search query (optional)searchQuerystringFull-text article search keywords, for example artificial intelligence. Each matching article becomes one row. Leave empty to use only the article titles list. default: "artificial intelligence"

Full summaries for search resultsfetchSummariesForResultsbooleanWhen true, every search hit is enriched with the clean summary (description, extract, image, coordinates) and billed as an article summary. When false, lighter search rows (snippet, size, word count) are returned instead. default: true

Article titles (optional)articleTitlesarrayExact article titles or full Wikipedia URLs to fetch summaries for, for example Alan Turing. Combine with pageviews to get traffic history per article. default: []

Monthly pageviewsincludePageviewsbooleanWhen true, adds one row per month with view counts for each article in the titles list (Wikimedia pageview API, all platforms and agents). default: false

Pageview months backpageviewMonthsintegerHow many months of pageview history to return per article, from 1 up to 120 (10 years). default: 12

Max ItemsmaxItemsintegerMaximum number of rows to return (articles, search results and pageview months together). Free users are limited to 10 rows; paid users can set up to 1,000,000. default: 10

02 / PRICING

Pay for what you collect.

EVENTDETAILPRICE

Article summaryOne article with description, extract, image and coordinates.$0.012

Search resultOne lightweight search hit with snippet and size.$0.01

Pageview monthOne month of view counts for an article.$0.01

Prices in USD, shown for the Apify free plan. Paid Apify plans get tiered discounts. Platform usage is included.

03 / FAQ

About the Wikipedia Scraper.

How much does the Wikipedia Scraper cost?

It charges per event: Article summary $0.012, Search result $0.01, Pageview month $0.01. Prices are for the free Apify plan, and paid Apify plans get tiered discounts. Apify platform usage is included in the event price.

What input does the Wikipedia Scraper need?

No field is required. The Actor has 7 input fields and every one has a default.

Which formats can I export the Wikipedia Scraper results in?

Results are saved to an Apify dataset. Download them as JSON, CSV or Excel, or fetch them through the Apify API.

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