List members of a Wikipedia category (paginated) API

Lists pages and subcategories belonging to a Wikipedia category, namespace-filtered and paginated via a cursor. Subcategory names are de-prefixed and each member gets a resolved URL. Answers 'what articles are in category X', 'enumerate a topic taxonomy', 'walk a category tree'.

Price$0.01per request

MethodPOST

Route/v1/data/wiki-category-members

StatusLive

MIME typeapplication/json

Rate limit60/minute

Cache86400s public

datawikipediacategorytaxonomymembersenumerationpaginationwikimedia

API URLhttps://x402.hexl.dev/v1/data/wiki-category-members

Integration docs

Example request

{
  "category": "Physics",
  "limit": 5
}

Example response

{
  "category": "Category:Physics",
  "count": 5,
  "members": [
    {
      "title": "Physics",
      "pageId": 22939,
      "type": "page",
      "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physics"
    },
    {
      "title": "Portal:Physics",
      "pageId": 1653925,
      "type": "page",
      "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal%3APhysics"
    },
    {
      "title": "AIC Judd Award",
      "pageId": 82429008,
      "type": "page",
      "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIC_Judd_Award"
    },
    {
      "title": "Atominstitute",
      "pageId": 80358385,
      "type": "page",
      "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atominstitute"
    },
    {
      "title": "Edge states",
      "pageId": 74985603,
      "type": "page",
      "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edge_states"
    }
  ],
  "nextCursor": "page|3240322e504c464e502a503a2e044e46403a502a4c5a04562a5432011f01dc1e|78147827"
}

Input schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "category"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "category": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Category name, with or without the 'Category:' prefix."
    },
    "limit": {
      "type": "number",
      "description": "Max members 1-50 (default 20)."
    },
    "cursor": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Pagination cursor (nextCursor from a prior call)."
    },
    "type": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Comma list of member types: page,subcat,file (default 'page,subcat')."
    },
    "project": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Wikimedia project host (default 'en.wikipedia')."
    }
  }
}

Output schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "additionalProperties": true
}