The recent changes stream is a live, public feed of activity on all Wikimedia wikis, including Wikipedia, available in over 270 languages. Using the recent changes stream, you can build applications on top of the massive amount of realtime data from Wikipedia. This data powers projects that identify trending news topics, sonify and visualize Wikipedia edits, monitor edits from US Congress, and more.
An application can connect to the recent changes stream with a SocketIO client. First, connect to stream.wikimedia.org/rc
. Then, subscribe to any Wikimedia wiki in the format [language code].[wiki].org
.
For example, to connect and subscribe to English Wikipedia: