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Wikipedia API

wikipedia.org · 1 credit when fetched live, 0 from the shared store · needs an API key

Article title, summary paragraphs, thumbnail and infobox as JSON, in any language edition.

`GET /v1/structured/wikipedia/summary`

Article summary. Lead section of an article plus infobox key/values.

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
`title`	string	yes	Article title (spaces or underscores). e.g. `Web scraping`
`lang`	string	no	Language edition (default en). e.g. `en`
`max_age`	number	no	Accept a stored copy up to this many seconds old (credits: 0). Defaults to 604800 s (7 days); 0 forces a fresh fetch.

Example

curl "https://api.webscrapingapi.dev/v1/structured/wikipedia/summary?title=Web%20scraping&lang=en" -H "X-API-Key: wsa_your_key"

Response

{
  "site": "wikipedia",
  "action": "summary",
  "data": {
    "title": "Web scraping",
    "lang": "en",
    "summary": "Web scraping, web harvesting, or web data extraction is data scraping …",
    "paragraphs": [ "…", "…", "…", "…", "…" ],
    "infobox": {}
  },
  "source": "cache", "age": 3120, "credits": 0
}

Returns data shaped like: { title, url, lang, summary, paragraphs[], thumbnail, infobox {} }. The envelope also carries site, action, params, source (live or cache), age in seconds, fetchedAt, elapsedMs and credits.

Caching. Results are stored and shared for 7 days by default. A response served from the store costs 0 credits and says "source": "cache"; pass max_age=0 to force a fresh fetch, or a smaller max_age when you need something newer.

Layout changes on wikipedia.org can break parsing; the API then returns SITE_PARSE_FAILED. If you see it, tell us on the board and it will be fixed.