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Wikimedia Enterprise API Products
Snapshot API
Retrieve an entire Wikimedia project, updated daily.
- Download compressed files containing everything in a given project, updated daily or monthly
- Configure Snapshot downloads based on specific projects or language edition
- Monthly Snapshots are always free with an account
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
- Request the latest page data at any time to augment your Realtime or Snapshot API data
- Access Wikipedia Infobox content in JSON with our Structured Contents endpoint
- 10,000 Requests are free with an account
Realtime API
Stream real-time updates from any Wikimedia project, like Wikipedia.
- 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.
Wikimedia Enterprise API Structured Data
Always receive the same structured response from every API delivery method with JSON or ND-JSON
Retrieve data in bulk with the Snapshot API, listen for changes with the Realtime API stream, and make requests to the On-demand API
Responses include information about the article itself including summary, image, revision editor, credibility data about the revision, wikidata QID, and more metadata
Example: Run this cURL command with your access token (see docs to get that) to grab the live english squirrel wikipedia article seen here →
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer ACCESS_TOKEN" -L "https://api.enterprise.wikimedia.com/v2/articles/Squirrel?limit=1&fields=name&fields=identifier&filters=\{\"field\":\"is_part_of.identifier\",\"value\":\"enwiki\"\}"
For a full breakdown and explanation of the data in responses see our Data Dictionary schema.
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{
"name": "Squirrel",
"identifier": 28492,
"abstract": "...summary of article...",
"date_created": "2001-10-09T17:55:09Z",
"date_modified": "2023-06-08T22:54:56Z",
"date_previously_modified": "2023-05-11T22:49:51Z",
"version": {
"identifier": 1159205766,
"comment": "...version edit comment...",
"tags": [...],
"is_minor_edit": true,
"has_tag_needs_citation": true,
"scores": {...},
"editor": {...},
"number_of_characters": 30705,
"size": {
"value": 30799,
"unit_text": "B"
},
"event": {...}
},
"previous_version": {...},
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squirrel",
"watchers_count": 341,
"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 Share Alike 3.0 Unported",
"identifier": "CC-BY-SA-3.0",
"url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/"
}
],
}
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