Wikipedia REST API
Wikimedia Foundation
Up· checked 14 Nov 2026, 01:55 UTCUser-AgentKnowledge & reference
Page summaries, related pages and on-this-day feeds; descriptive UA required.
Details
- Access
- User-AgentOpen, but asks clients to identify themselves with a User-Agent header.
- Coverage
- global
- Updates
- realtime
- Formats
- JSON
- License
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Rate limit
- 200 req/sec w/ contact UA
- API base
https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1- Tags
- wikipedia, summaries, articles
- Added
- 14 Nov 2026
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