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Wikimedia Enterprise APIs

Snapshot API

Retrieve entire Wikimedia projects as a database dump file.

Download a compressed file containing everything in any project, in any language
Article body in HTML as well as Wikitext
Free: New snapshots every two weeks
Upgrade: Daily snapshots cadence
Upgrade: Beta Structured Contents Snapshot with parsed infoboxes and article sections

On-demand API

Retrieve single articles from any Wikimedia project at anytime.

Make standard HTTP requests to retrieve documents by ID or name from all projects and languages, or use filters to limit response
Request the latest page data anytime to augment your Realtime or Snapshot API data
Free: 5,000 requests monthly
Free: Structured Contents beta endpoint with parsed infobox and full article sections

Realtime API

Stream updates in real-time from any Wikimedia project.

Streaming: Receive streaming updates (firehose) of every change as they occur in real-time
Batch: Download compressed snapshot files of incremental updates every hour
Instant updates for new content, any edits, deletions, and breaking news events including community-curated visibility changes
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Payload Examples: Production response. Beta Structured Contents reponse.

Gain instant access to Snapshot API and On-demand API with a free account.

Learn more: API Documentation

Wikimedia Enterprise API Payload

All of our APIs return the same structured JSON (or ND-JSON) response format making it easy to augment one API with another.

Three APIs; same data, different retrieval methods.
_ Retrieve bulk data with the Snapshot API
_ Receive changes instantly with Realtime API streaming
_ Retrieve single articles with the On-demand API

API responses include article data such as summary, image, Wikidata QID, license, and more. Also included is data specific to the last revision, such as editor, size of change, and credibility score with revert probability.

Example: Run this cURL command with your access token (see auth docs) to grab the live english squirrel wikipedia article seen here →

curl --location 'https://api.enterprise.wikimedia.com/v2/articles/Squirrel' --header 'Content-Type: application/json' --header 'Authorization: Bearer ACCESS_TOKEN' --data '{"filters":[{"field":"is_part_of.identifier","value":"enwiki"}]}'

For a full breakdown and explanation of the data schema in responses see our Data Dictionary.

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{
  "name": "Squirrel",
  "identifier": 28492,
  "abstract": "...summary of article...",
  "date_created": "2001-10-09T17:55:09Z",
  "date_modified": "2025-02-05T03:04:17Z",
  "date_previously_modified": "2024-12-21T06:38:32Z",
  "version": {
    "identifier": 1274023344,
    "comment": "...version edit comment...",
    "tags": [...],
    "is_minor_edit": true,
    "has_tag_needs_citation": true,
    "scores": {
    "revertrisk": {
      "probability": {...}
      }
    },
    "editor": {...},
    "number_of_characters": 33076,
    "size": {
      "value": 33188,
      "unit_text": "B"
    },
    "event": {...}
  },
  "previous_version": {...},
  "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squirrel",
  "watchers_count": 363,
  "image": {
    "content_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/68/Sciuridae.jpg",
    "width": 600,
    "height": 600
  },
  "article_body": {
    "html": "...html of entire page...",
    "wikitext": "...wikitext of entire page..."
  },
  "namespace": {
    "identifier": 0
  },
  "in_language": {
    "identifier": "en"
  },
  "main_entity": {
    "identifier": "Q9482",
    "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q9482"
  },
  "protection": [...],
  "additional_entities": [...],
  "categories": [...],
  "templates": [...],
  "redirects": [...],
  "is_part_of": {...},
  "license": [
    {
      "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 4.0",
      "identifier": "CC-BY-SA-4.0",
      "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
    }
  ],
}

Structured Contents BETA Endpoints Payload

Our Structured Contents endpoints have the same familiar structure as our production responses but include beta fields and objects we’re working to parse out of articles. Parsed objects that are unique to Structured Contents are: infobox, sections, description (with more coming). See the beta section of our data dictionary for details.

On-demand API structured contents endpoint is freely available whereas the bulk Snapshot API Structured Contents dumps is available on request.

Example: Run this cURL command with your access token (see auth docs) to get structured contents response from the live english squirrel wikipedia article seen here →

curl --location 'https://api.enterprise.wikimedia.com/v2/structured-contents/Squirrel' --header 'Content-Type: application/json' --header 'Authorization: Bearer ACCESS_TOKEN' --data '{"filters":[{"field":"is_part_of.identifier","value":"enwiki"}]}'

For a full breakdown and explanation of the structured contents data schema in responses see our Data Dictionary: Beta section.

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{
  "name": "Squirrel",
  "identifier": 28492,
  "abstract": "...summary of article...",
  "version": {
    "identifier": 1274023344,
    "comment": "...version edit comment...",
    "scores": {
      "revertrisk": {
        "probability": {...}
      }
    },
    "editor": {...},
    "number_of_characters": 33076,
    "size": {...},
    "maintenance_tags": {}
  },
  "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squirrel",
  "date_created": "2001-10-09T17:55:09Z",
  "date_modified": "2025-02-05T03:04:17Z",
  "main_entity": {...},
  "is_part_of": {...},
  "additional_entities": [...],
  "in_language": {...},
  "image": {...},
  "license": [...],
  "description": "...short description...",
  "infobox": [
    {
      "name": "Pp-semi-indef",
      "type": "infobox",
      "has_parts": [
        {
          "type": "section",
          "has_parts": [
            {
              "type": "field",
              "value": "Squirrels Temporal range",
              "values": [...]
            },
            {
              "type": "image",
              "values": [...],
              "images": [
                {
                  "content_url": "...image",
                  "height": 250,
                  "width": 250
                }
              ]
            },
            {
              "type": "field",
              "value": "Various members of the family Sciuridae",
              "values": [...],
              "links": [...]
            },
            {
              "type": "field",
              "value": "Scientific classification",
              "values": [...],
              "images": [...],
              "links": [...]
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sections": [
    {
      "name": "Abstract",
      "type": "section",
      "has_parts": [
        {
          "type": "paragraph",
          "value": "...section paragraph...",
          "links": [...]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Etymology",
      "type": "section",
      "has_parts": [
        {
          "type": "paragraph",
          "value": "...section paragraph...",
          "links": [...]
        },
        {
          "type": "paragraph",
          "value": "...section paragraph...",
          "links": [...]
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

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Open Licensing

Benefit from open-licensed, royalty-free data. Every response includes license information in the payload.