Wikipedia / Wikimedia REST API
Free, no-auth REST API for fetching article content, summaries, page views, and on-this-day events from Wikipedia.
Wikipedia / Wikimedia REST API is listed in News & Media.
Auth No auth Pricing Free URL https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:REST_API Docs https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:REST_API
Key metrics
200 req/sec Rate limit Free Wikimedia REST API: no key for reads; ~200 req/sec fair-use ceiling and a descriptive User-Agent is required.
Gotchas
No gotchas documented yet. Contribute one if you know a constraint we missed.
Labels
- No auth
No auth
Callable with no API key or login — lowest-friction to integrate.
reference encyclopedia open-data content events