Daily featured content

Many Wikipedias include a daily featured article and other curated content on their homepages. You can see an example of this on English Wikipedia and Hebrew Wikipedia. The Wikimedia API lets you access this featured content programmatically and add high-quality, multilingual knowledge to your apps.

• Get the daily featured article from Wikipedia in more than 10 languages.
• Display the daily featured image from Wikimedia Commons with descriptions in English.
• Explore events from this day in history, including holidays, births, and deaths.

Projects

Commons

Images and media files
  Multilingual
  Individual file licenses

Documentation

Tutorial

Get featured content from Wikipedia with Python.

› Read the tutorial

Language support

See supported languages for different types of featured content.

› Read the docs

Featured content endpoint

Get the daily featured article and image.

› Read the docs

On this day endpoint

Get events that occurred on a given date in history.

› Read the docs