Wikipedia Has a Secret REST API — Get Clean JSON Summaries for Any Topic

Wikipedia has a REST API that returns clean JSON summaries for any topic. No API key. No rate limits. No authentication. https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v 1 /page/summary/Electric_vehicle Returns: { "title" : "Electric vehicle" , "description" : "Vehicle propelled by electric motors" , "extract" : "An electric vehicle (EV) is a vehicle that uses one or more electric motors for propulsion..." , "thumbnail" : { "source" : "https://upload.wikimedia.org/..." , "width" : 320 , "height" : 213 }, "content_urls" : { "desktop" : { "page" : "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_vehicle" }} } Clean summary, thumbnail, description — in one API call. What Else the API Does Search: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=opensearch&search=web+scraping Full content: https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/html/Electric_vehicle Related pages: https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/related/Electric_vehicle Media: https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/media-list/Electric_vehicle Use Cases