oanor
Sign up free
Marketplace Pricing Features Sign in

API · /wiki-api

Wikipedia API

healthy 4,779 Subscribers

A fast, clean wrapper over the official Wikimedia APIs covering every Wikipedia language: full-text article search with snippets, lead-section summaries (extract, short description, thumbnail and canonical URL), "on this day" historical events, births, deaths and holidays for any calendar day, and a random-article endpoint. Every endpoint takes a "lang" parameter (en, de, fr, es, simple, zh and any other Wikipedia language) and accepts input via the query string or the request body. Returns lean, predictable JSON with HTML stripped and entities decoded — no scraping, no rate-limit juggling, no client-side parsing. Ideal for chatbots and RAG pipelines, trivia and "this day in history" apps, knowledge panels, education and research tools.

#wikipedia #knowledge #encyclopedia #search #on-this-day #reference #data
api.oanor.com/wiki-api
Get an API key Try in playground → Contact provider

Machine-readable spec so AI agents can integrate this API.

/api/wiki-api/openapi.json
/api/wiki-api/llms.txt

Discovery: GET /api/index.json lists every API.

API health

healthy
Uptime
100.00%
Server probes · 24h
Avg latency
390 ms
Server probes · 24h
Subscribers
4,779
active
Total calls
12
last 7 days
status Full status page → · 12 probes/24h

Pricing

Pick a tier — billed monthly, cancel anytime.

Free

Free

  • 5,000 calls / month
  • 2 requests / second
  • Hard cap (429 above quota, no overage)
  • 5,000 calls/month, 2 req/s
  • Search, summary, on-this-day & random — all Wikipedia languages
  • No credit card
Sign in to subscribe

Basic

€6.00 /month

  • 75,000 calls / month
  • 10 requests / second
  • Hard cap (429 above quota, no overage)
  • 75,000 requests/month, 10 req/s
  • All endpoints, every language, clean JSON
  • Commercial use included
  • Email support
Sign in to subscribe

Pro

€19.00 /month

  • 500,000 calls / month
  • 25 requests / second
  • Hard cap (429 above quota, no overage)
  • 500,000 requests/month, 25 req/s
  • High throughput for apps, chatbots & RAG pipelines
  • Priority email support
  • Commercial use allowed
Sign in to subscribe

Mega

€49.00 /month

  • 3,000,000 calls / month
  • 75 requests / second
  • Hard cap (429 above quota, no overage)
  • 3,000,000 requests/month, 75 req/s
  • Highest throughput for production knowledge features
  • Priority support
  • Commercial use allowed
Sign in to subscribe

Built by

P
PremiumApi

Related APIs

Other APIs with overlapping tags.

Wikipedia API

Search Wikipedia and fetch concise article summaries, page media, "on this day" historical events and random articles — across all Wikipedia languages, via the official Wikimedia API.

api.oanor.com/wikipedia-api

Instant Answer API

Get instant knowledge answers — definitions, abstracts, entity facts and related topics — plus search autocomplete suggestions, powered by DuckDuckGo. Ideal for knowledge panels, "did you mean" boxes and query suggestions.

api.oanor.com/answer-api

Stopwords API

Stopword lists and removal for 58 languages. Fetch the full stopword list for a language, see all supported languages with their word counts, check whether a single word is a stopword, or strip stopwords out of a block of text to get a clean keyword stream. Built on the open stopwords-iso dataset and served entirely in-memory, so responses are instant and the service is always available. Ideal for search indexing and relevance, NLP preprocessing and text mining, keyword extraction, tag generation and content tooling.

api.oanor.com/stopwords-api

Hacker News API

Search Hacker News stories and comments by relevance or date, read the live front page, and fetch full item threads with their comment trees. Filter by story, Ask HN, Show HN, poll or comment. Great for tech-trend monitoring, brand and topic tracking, content aggregation and developer tools.

api.oanor.com/hackernews-api

Frequently asked questions

Quick answers about pricing, quotas, and integration.

How do I get an API key for Wikipedia API?
Sign up for free at oanor.com, generate an API key from the developer dashboard, and call Wikipedia API with the x-oanor-key header. No credit card needed for the free tier.
What's the rate limit for Wikipedia API?
Free tier allows 1 request per second. Paid plans scale up to 50 requests per second on the Mega tier. Hard limits return HTTP 429 above the quota — no surprise overage charges.
How much does Wikipedia API cost?
Wikipedia API has a free tier with 100 calls / month. Paid plans start at €6.00 / month with higher quotas and faster rate limits.
Can I cancel my subscription anytime?
Yes. Plans are billed monthly and you can cancel anytime from your billing dashboard. No long-term contracts and no cancellation fee.
Is Wikipedia API GDPR-compliant?
All requests to Wikipedia API go through our EU-based gateway. Your upstream API key never leaves our server and no personal data is shared with the upstream provider beyond the request you send.

Pick an endpoint from the list on the left to see its details and try it.

Code snippets

Sign up to get an API key, then call any path under your slug.

curl https://api.oanor.com/wiki-api/SOME_PATH \
  -H "x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."
const res = await fetch("https://api.oanor.com/wiki-api/SOME_PATH", {
  headers: { "x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..." }
});
const data = await res.json();
$ch = curl_init("https://api.oanor.com/wiki-api/SOME_PATH");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, ["x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."]);
$response = curl_exec($ch);
import requests
r = requests.get(
    "https://api.oanor.com/wiki-api/SOME_PATH",
    headers={"x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..."},
)
print(r.json())

Ratings

Sign in to rate.

No reviews yet.

Discussion

Ask questions, share usage tips, get answers from the provider and other developers. Public — anyone can read.

Sign in to start a thread or reply.

Sign in

New thread

/ 4000

📌 Pinned 🔒 Locked

·

· ·

/ 4000

🔒 This thread is locked — no new replies.

  • No threads yet — start the discussion.

Support

Private 1:1 support with the provider — billing questions, integration issues, account problems. Only you and the provider team can see these threads.

Sign in to open a support ticket.

Sign in

Open new ticket

Describe what you need help with. The provider team gets an email and replies on the ticket page.

  • No tickets yet for this API.

Subscription active — calls can start immediately.

Send your first request —

Subscription active — copy a snippet and fire off your first call.