Access APIs for over 100M pages across 750+ Wikimedia projects and languages
Wikimedia Enterprise API Products
Snapshot API
Retrieve an entire Wikimedia project, updated daily.
- Download compressed files, updated daily and monthly, containing everything in a given project
- Configure Snapshot downloads based on specific projects or language edition
- Monthly Snapshots are always free with signup
On-demand API
Retrieve any article from any Wikimedia project at anytime.
- Make standard HTTP requests to retrieve any document by ID or page name
- Augment the Realtime and Snapshot APIs by requesting the latest data at any time
- 10,000 Requests are free with signup
Realtime API
Stream real time updates from any/every Wikimedia project.
- Streaming: Receive streaming updates of changes as they occur in real time
- Batch: Download compressed files of incremental updates each hour
- Receive updates for new content, edits, deletions, and urgent events including community-curated visibility changes
Send your first request in no time with a free account.
Open License
Benefit from open-licensed, royalty-free data
SLA and Support
All accounts include a help center and paid accounts receive 99% SLA and support response time guarantees
Wikimedia Enterprise API Structured Data
Always receive the same structured response from every API delivery method
Retrieve data in bulk with the Snapshot API, listen for changes with the Realtime API, and make requests to the On-demand API
Responses include information about the article itself, the editor, edit credibility data points, metadata, and more
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{
"name": "Squirrel",
"main_entity": {
"identifier": "Q9482",
"url": "http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q9482"
},
"article_body": {
"html": "...html...",
"wikitext": "...wikitext..."
},
"identifier": 28492,
"date_modified": "2021-10-03T21:34:53Z",
"version": {
"identifier": 987654321,
"tags": [...],
"is_minor_edit": true,
"comment": "Sample Comment",
"editor": {...}
},
"protection": [...],
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squirrel",
"namespace": {
"name": "Article",
"identifier": 0
},
"in_language": {...},
"additional_entities": [...],
"is_part_of": {...},
"license": [...]
}Modern Data Delivery
Make standard HTTP requests, easily export entire Wikimedia projects, or receive a filterable feed of the latest updates in real time—all with rate limits designed for enterprise.
- No additional costs beyond delivery
- No additional contract or agreement for data licensing
- Keep data indefinitely