Daily Wikipedia featured-content digest API

A one-call digest of Wikipedia's daily featured content for a date: today's featured article (with extract), the picture of the day, the top most-read articles with view counts, did-you-know hooks, and in-the-news items — all cleaned of markup. Answers 'what's featured on Wikipedia today', 'most-read articles on a date', 'picture of the day'.

Price$0.01per request

MethodPOST

Route/v1/data/wiki-featured

StatusLive

MIME typeapplication/json

Rate limit60/minute

Cache86400s public

datawikipediafeaturedpicture-of-the-daymost-readdid-you-knowdigestwikimedia

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

Integration docs

Example request

{
  "date": "2024-06-03",
  "mostRead": 3
}

Example response

{
  "date": "2024-06-03",
  "featuredArticle": {
    "title": "Donner Party",
    "extract": "The Donner Party, sometimes called the Donner–Reed Party, was a group of American pioneers who migrated to California in a wagon train from the Midwest. Delayed by a multitude of mishaps, they spent the winter of 1846–1847 snowbound in the Sierra Nevada. Some of the migrants resorted to cannibalism to survive, mainly eating the bodies of those who had succumbed to starvation, sickness, or extreme cold, but in one case murdering and eating two Miwok guides.",
    "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donner_Party"
  },
  "pictureOfTheDay": {
    "title": "File:Canopy bed of Amantaka Suite in Amantaka luxury Resort & Hotel in Luang Prabang Laos.jpg",
    "description": "Canopy bed of Amantaka Suite in Amantaka luxury resort and hotel in Luang Prabang, Laos",
    "image": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/42/Canopy_bed_of_Amantaka_Suite_in_Amantaka_luxury_Resort_%26_Hotel_in_Luang_Prabang_Laos.jpg",
    "filePage": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Canopy_bed_of_Amantaka_Suite_in_Amantaka_luxury_Resort_%26_Hotel_in_Luang_Prabang_Laos.jpg"
  },
  "mostRead": [
    {
      "rank": 3,
      "title": "UFC 302",
      "views": 385198,
      "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFC_302"
    },
    {
      "rank": 5,
      "title": "Chloe Bennet",
      "views": 242767,
      "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chloe_Bennet"
    },
    {
      "rank": 6,
      "title": "Islam Makhachev",
      "views": 231163,
      "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_Makhachev"
    }
  ],
  "didYouKnow": [],
  "inTheNews": []
}

Input schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "date": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Date YYYY-MM-DD (default today UTC)."
    },
    "mostRead": {
      "type": "number",
      "description": "Max most-read articles 1-25 (default 10)."
    },
    "project": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Wikimedia project host (default 'en.wikipedia')."
    }
  }
}

Output schema

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