Wger Exercise Database Scraper

Scrape the complete wger.de open exercise database — 845+ exercises with multilingual names, muscle groups, equipment, images, categories, and full license attribution. No API key or authentication required.

What data does it scrape?

For each exercise the scraper returns:

Field	Description
exercise_id	Numeric wger exercise ID
uuid	Stable UUID
name	Exercise name in the requested language
description_html	Full HTML description / instructions
category	Exercise category (Cardio, Legs, Arms, etc.)
language	Language ID used for this record
primary_muscles	Primary muscles targeted (newline-separated)
secondary_muscles	Secondary muscles (newline-separated)
equipment	Required equipment (newline-separated)
images	Exercise images with main-flag and license author
videos	Exercise videos
aliases	Alternative names for the exercise
variations	Variation group ID if the exercise belongs to a set
license	Content license (e.g. CC-BY-SA 4)
license_author	Attribution author for the content
created	Creation timestamp
last_update	Last update timestamp

Why use this?

• No competitor: no other Apify actor wraps the wger exercise database
• License-compliant output: license and license_author fields are surfaced on every record so downstream apps stay CC/AGPL-compliant
• Multilingual: set language to any wger language ID (1=German, 2=English, 19=Spanish, etc.)
• Drop-in seed data: flat, query-ready records for fitness apps, personal trainer tools, LLM exercise recommendation systems

Usage

Default run — fetches English exercises:

{
  "language": 2,
  "maxItems": 15
}

Full English database:

{
  "language": 2
}

German exercises:

{
  "language": 1,
  "maxItems": 100
}

Language IDs

Common language IDs supported by wger:

ID	Language
1	German
2	English
4	Norwegian
5	French
6	Czech
7	Spanish

For the full list see the wger language API.

Input parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
language	Integer	2	Language ID (2 = English)
maxItems	Integer	all	Maximum records to return

Data source

Data comes from the wger.de REST API — a free, open-source workout manager with CC/AGPL-licensed exercise content. The scraper uses polite rate limiting (600ms between requests) and is well within fair-use boundaries for read-only enrichment.