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== To scrape data from Wikipedia, do you need to go through Wikipedia Business ==

Just wondering. [[Special:Contributions/&#126;2026-82871-0|&#126;2026-82871-0]] ([[User talk:&#126;2026-82871-0|talk]]) 00:59, 7 February 2026 (UTC)
: This isn't really answerable without a lot more context, but I think the answer is "no". [[User:Pppery|* Pppery *]] [[User talk:Pppery|<sub style="color:#800000">it has begun...</sub>]] 02:20, 7 February 2026 (UTC)
:From a Foundation article from November: [https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2025/11/10/in-the-ai-era-wikipedia-has-never-been-more-valuable/ "Financial support means that most AI developers should properly access Wikipedia’s content  through the Wikimedia Enterprise platform. Developed by the Wikimedia Foundation, this paid-for opt-in product allows companies to use Wikipedia content at scale and sustainably without severely taxing Wikipedia’s servers, while also enabling them to support our nonprofit mission."]
:I would try looking at [https://enterprise.wikimedia.com/ Wikimedia Enterprise].  From what I am getting from [https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/10/wikipedia-urges-ai-companies-to-use-its-paid-api-and-stop-scraping/ this TechCrunch article], I think it might be what you are looking for or in the right direction.  --[[User:Super Goku V|Super Goku V]] ([[User talk:Super Goku V|talk]]) 02:34, 7 February 2026 (UTC)
:How much data and how frequently? [[User:Aaron Liu|<span class="skin-invert" style="color:#0645ad">Aaron Liu</span>]] ([[User talk:Aaron Liu#top|talk]]) 16:49, 8 February 2026 (UTC)
:You don't need to as long as you comply with Wikipedia's content licence, but if you are copying a lot of data it would probably be better (for both you and Wikipedia) to. [[User:Phil Bridger|Phil Bridger]] ([[User talk:Phil Bridger|talk]]) 17:01, 8 February 2026 (UTC)
:Considering that our API is free for most small usecases and we freely provide dumps for everyone to use, no? Wikimedia Enterprise is if you usecase meets the brief "if I do this, I will cause production outages" [[User:Sohom Datta|<b class="skin-invert" style="color:#795cb2; display: inline-block; transform: rotate(0.3deg)">Sohom</b>]] ([[User talk:Sohom Datta|<span class="skin-invert" style="color: #36c;">talk</span>]]) 18:37, 8 February 2026 (UTC)
:See [[WP:Database download]] for an overview of ways to get at our data. —[[User:Cryptic|Cryptic]] 21:16, 8 February 2026 (UTC)
::Hi @[[User:~2026-82871-0|~2026-82871-0]], 
::Yes as other people have said here - it depends on "how much" or "how fast" you want... There are various APIs and database dumps that exist. Here's the [[foundation:Policy:Wikimedia Foundation User-Agent Policy|User-Agent Policy]] and [[foundation:Policy:Wikimedia Foundation API Usage Guidelines|API Usage Guidelines]] for starters.
::You can ''also'' access and download content via the ''enterprise'' API service [https://enterprise.wikimedia.com/api/ directly, at no cost, up to a fairly high limit]. That same dataset is also available via several alternative methods including WikimediaCloudServices and external platforms. For information on those options see [[meta:Wikimedia_Enterprise#Access]]. 
::[[User:LWyatt (WMF)|LWyatt (WMF)]] ([[User talk:LWyatt (WMF)|talk]]) 14:59, 16 February 2026 (UTC)
:::There are even companies that will put all of Wikipedia on a hard drive and ship it to you for a fee. See prepperdisk.com (don't know if they are any good - I just picked the first one duckduckgo listed). --[[User:Guy Macon|Guy Macon]] ([[User talk:Guy Macon|talk]]) 15:22, 16 February 2026 (UTC)
::::https://what-if.xkcd.com/31/ [[User:RoySmith|RoySmith]] [[User Talk:RoySmith|(talk)]] 16:24, 24 February 2026 (UTC)
:they ideally should but we can't legally do anything more than politely ask them to stop [[User:mghackerlady|<span style="color: #C9A0DC ">mghackerlady</span>]] ([[User talk:Mghackerlady|talk]]) ([[Special:Contributions/mghackerlady|contribs]]) 15:42, 9 March 2026 (UTC)
::We can. Terms (legal contracts) apply as LWya listed them, and there's many methods to block excess traffic when we want to. [[User:Aaron Liu|<span class="skin-invert" style="color:#0645ad">Aaron Liu</span>]] ([[User talk:Aaron Liu#top|talk]]) 17:14, 9 March 2026 (UTC)