en.wikipedia.org APIen.wikipedia.org ↗
Extract structured awards, honors, and achievements from any Wikipedia article. Returns award names and years from infoboxes, dedicated sections, and bullet lists.
curl -X GET 'https://api.parse.bot/scraper/67fe322a-f478-44fe-879c-6852bc42fb50/get_awards?article_title=Jeremiah_Smith_%28American_football%29' \ -H 'X-API-Key: $PARSE_API_KEY'
Extract the awards, honors, and achievements from a Wikipedia article. Parses the article's wikitext to find awards listed in the infobox, a dedicated Awards/Honors section, or standalone bullet lists. Returns a structured list of awards with their associated year(s). Works best with biographical articles for athletes, entertainers, and public figures that list accomplishments.
| Param | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| article_titlerequired | string | Wikipedia article title as it appears in the URL path (e.g. 'Jeremiah_Smith_(American_football)', 'Tom_Brady'). Spaces can be underscores or literal spaces. |
{
"type": "object",
"fields": {
"total": "integer - number of awards found",
"awards": "array of award objects with 'award' (string) and 'year' (string or null)",
"article_title": "string - canonical article title as returned by Wikipedia"
},
"sample": {
"data": {
"total": 8,
"awards": [
{
"year": "2024",
"award": "CFP national champion"
},
{
"year": "2025",
"award": "Rose Bowl Offensive MVP"
},
{
"year": "2025",
"award": "Unanimous All-American"
},
{
"year": "2024",
"award": "First-team All-American"
},
{
"year": "2024, 2025",
"award": "2× Big Ten Receiver of the Year"
},
{
"year": "2024",
"award": "Big Ten Freshman of the Year"
},
{
"year": "2024, 2025",
"award": "2× First-team All-Big Ten"
},
{
"year": "2023",
"award": "All-American Bowl Player of the Year"
}
],
"article_title": "Jeremiah Smith (American football)"
},
"status": "success"
}
}About the en.wikipedia.org API
The Wikipedia Awards API exposes 1 endpoint — get_awards — that returns a structured list of awards, honors, and achievements parsed from any English Wikipedia article. Each response includes the total count of awards found, an array of award objects with name and associated year, and the canonical article title. Point it at athletes, politicians, scientists, or any notable subject covered in Wikipedia.
What the API returns
The get_awards endpoint accepts a single required parameter, article_title, which is the Wikipedia article slug exactly as it appears in the URL (e.g., Jeremiah_Smith_(American_football) or Tom_Brady). The response contains three fields: total (an integer count of awards found), awards (an array of objects each holding an award string and a year string or null), and article_title (the canonical title as resolved by Wikipedia).
Coverage and source locations
The endpoint looks for awards data in multiple places within an article: the infobox fields, a dedicated Awards or Honors section, and standalone bullet lists used for career accolades. When year data is associated with an award in the source article, it is returned in the year field; when no year is present, that field returns null. The total field gives you a quick count without iterating the full array.
Practical notes
Article titles are case-sensitive and must match the Wikipedia URL path segment, including any disambiguation suffixes in parentheses. Articles that do not contain recognizable awards content will return an empty awards array with total set to 0. Wikipedia content is community-maintained, so coverage and formatting varies by article — a well-maintained athlete or musician page will yield more structured data than a stub article.
- Pull career accolades for a sports player to display alongside stats on a fan or fantasy platform
- Aggregate award histories across multiple Wikipedia articles to build a recognition dataset for public figures
- Check whether a specific award (e.g., Heisman Trophy) appears in an athlete's article by scanning the returned
awardsarray - Populate an honors section on an auto-generated biography page using the structured
awardandyearfields - Compare award counts across articles using the
totalfield to rank figures in a domain by recognition - Monitor changes in award coverage for a notable person by periodically calling
get_awardsand diffing results
| Tier | Price | Credits/month | Rate limit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0/mo | 100 | 5 req/min |
| Hobby | $30/mo | 1,000 | 20 req/min |
| Developer | $100/mo | 5,000 | 250 req/min |
One credit = one API call regardless of which marketplace API you call. Exceeding the rate limit returns a 429 response. Authenticate with the X-API-Key header.
Does Wikipedia have an official developer API?+
What does the `year` field return when an award has a date range or multiple years?+
year field is a string, so it can hold a range like '2022–2024' or multiple values if that is how the year is represented in the article. When no year information is associated with the award, year returns null.Does the API return non-award biographical data like career statistics or playing positions?+
awards array, total count, and article_title. Career statistics, biographical details, infobox fields unrelated to awards, and section text are not returned. You can fork it on Parse and revise to add the missing endpoint.Can I query multiple Wikipedia articles in a single request?+
get_awards endpoint accepts one article_title per call. You can fork it on Parse and revise to add a batch endpoint that accepts an array of article titles.