How Wikipedia-API is used
Wikipedia-API joined the catalog on its public numbers (940,813 downloads a week on PyPI and 750 GitHub stars), not on our project count: it is a dependency in 19 public GitHub projects of our scan, 0 of them set up for AI coding agents. Projects that use it most often also use LangChain (78.9%), OpenAI Python Library (78.9%), Pillow (73.7%).
Wikipedia-API popularity over time
Gid Score 46: downloads 63, use in agent projects 27, GitHub stars 7, downloads trend 100 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with Wikipedia-API
| LangChain | 78.9% of Wikipedia-API projects · 38.9× more than average |
|---|---|
| OpenAI Python Library | 78.9% of Wikipedia-API projects · 20.0× more than average |
| Pillow | 73.7% of Wikipedia-API projects · 19.2× more than average |
| LiteLLM | 68.4% of Wikipedia-API projects · 111.8× more than average |
| Hugging Face Transformers | 63.2% of Wikipedia-API projects · 50.9× more than average |
| Pydantic | 63.2% of Wikipedia-API projects · 7.3× more than average |
| python-dotenv | 63.2% of Wikipedia-API projects · 6.9× more than average |
| Requests | 63.2% of Wikipedia-API projects · 9.3× more than average |
How Wikipedia-API is funded
GitHub Sponsors
| @martin-majlis | 0 current sponsors |
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Ways to fund Wikipedia-API
GitHub Sponsors Tidelift Buy Me a Coffee thanks.dev
As the maintainers list them in FUNDING.yml on GitHub. Checked Oct 20, 2026.
Install
| Package | pip install wikipedia-api |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Python (19) |
| Example projects | sentient-agi/OpenDeepSearch, lwyBZss8924d/DeepSearchAgents, VIA-Research/AgentBench, DawoodTouseef/J.AR.V.I.S., Bensake/OpenDeepSearch-Bensake |
Alternatives to Wikipedia-API
In our scan, none of the most used tools in SDKs for hosted services does the same job as Wikipedia-API: they are add-ons, companions or tools for a different task.
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