The unofficial Wikipedia API. Because Wikipedia is built using MediaWiki, which in turn supports an API, Wikipedia does as well. This provides developers code-level access to the entire Wikipedia reference. The goal of this API is to provide direct, high-level access to the data contained in the MediaWiki databases.

MediaWiki's API is running on Wikipedia ( docs ). You can also use the Special:Export feature to dump data and parse it yourself. More information. Wikipedia is built on MediaWiki, and here's the MediaWiki API. Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged or ask your own question. The 2022 Community-a-thon has begun!

An Application Programming Interface (API) is a set of functions, procedures, methods or classes used by computer programs to request services from the operating system, software libraries or any other service providers running on the computer. A computer programmer uses the API to make application programs.

Goal of Wikipedia-API is to provide simple and easy to use API for retrieving informations from Wikipedia. Bellow are examples of common use cases. Getting single page is straightforward. You have to initialize Wikipedia object and ask for page by its name. It’s parameter language has be one of supported languages.