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wikipedia-api

Python wrapper for Wikipedia
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wikipedia-api has 23M monthly downloads and 743 GitHub stars. Version 0.15.0 supports Python 3.10+, first published in 2017.

It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in May 2026.

It is built on top of click, httpx and tenacity. It is used by 55 tracked packages, including flair, wikipedia-mcp and sportsball.

GitHub topics include wikipedia, wikipedia-api and wikipedia-scraper.

Downloads
Day
864.3K
Week
8.3M
Month
23.0M
Stars
743
Forks
89
Issues
1
Version
0.15.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
59
Adoption
100
Community
30
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
5 days ago
Monthly downloads
23,018,184
• Active
Activity within 30 days
Stable
Activity within 31-180 days
Minimal
Activity within 181-365 days, or no activity data
At Risk
No activity for > 365 days, but > 10,000 monthly downloads
Archived
Repository flagged as archived on GitHub
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
23,018,184
Stars
743
Stars per 1k downloads
0.03
• Industry Standard
> 10,000,000 monthly downloads
Hidden Gem
< 0.5 stars per 1k downloads and > 100,000 monthly downloads
Community Favorite
> 5 stars per 1k downloads
Rising Star
Balanced ratio of stars to downloads
Unknown
Fewer than 1,000 monthly downloads, or no star data
How download momentum is calculated
Week daily avg
1,185,655
Month daily avg
767,273
Momentum
+54.5%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.10
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.12 or newer
• Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.9, 3.10, or 3.11
Legacy
Supports 3.8 or older (or Python 2)
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
License categories
License
MIT
• Permissive
MIT, Apache, BSD, ISC, Unlicense, CC0, etc.
Copyleft
GPL, LGPL, AGPL, MPL, EPL, etc.
Proprietary
Commercial, all rights reserved, custom EULAs
Unknown
No license specified, or none of the above match
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
41 days ago
Total releases
46
Releases/year
5.4
Rapid
Last release within 365 days and > 12 releases/year
• Regular
Last release within 365 days
Slow
Last release 366-730 days ago
Stalled
Last release > 730 days ago, or no releases
Unknown
No usable release date available
How contributor risk was determined
Contributors
9
Monthly downloads
23,018,184
High Load
≤ 2 contributors and ≥ 50,000 monthly downloads
• Moderate Load
< 10 contributors and ≥ 500,000 monthly downloads
Low Load
< 25 contributors and ≥ 5,000,000 monthly downloads, or sole maintainer with ≥ 10,000 monthly downloads
Balanced
Enough contributors for the package's popularity
Unknown
No contributor data available
Engagement
39
 
Issue Burden
1.3
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
10.1%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.

Downloads by OS

Linux 1.0M
Windows 386
macOS 127

Python Versions

3.13
98.0% 1.0M
3.12
1.5% 15.7K
3.10
0.3% 3.1K
3.11
0.2% 2.2K
3.14
0.0% 230

Top Countries

1. US US
946.4K
2. SG SG
54.5K
3. CA CA
8.1K
4. PL PL
4.9K
5. SE SE
4.7K
6. AU AU
4.2K
7. NO NO
4.0K
8. IE IE
3.8K
9. BE BE
3.6K
10. ES ES
2.3K
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
December 11, 2017
Last Release
1 month ago
Last Commit
5 days ago
Latest Version
0.15.0
Total Releases
46
Contributors
9
Open PRs
2
Archived
No
Python Versions
3 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
py3
Keywords
API Wikipedia wrapper
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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