Wikipedia
App · Misc References · 4 actions
Search Wikipedia, read article summaries and full page content, and pull a random article.
Actions
| Action | What it does |
|---|---|
| Get page content | Get the full plain-text content of a Wikipedia article by its title. |
| Get random page | Get the summary of a random Wikipedia article, useful for discovery, prompts, or daily-fact style workflows. |
| Get summary | Get the short summary (lead extract) of a Wikipedia article by its title, along with its description, thumbnail, and link. |
| Search | Search Wikipedia for articles matching a query and return the matching titles with short snippets and links. |
Get page content
Get the full plain-text content of a Wikipedia article by its title. Optionally return only the lead section.
Inputs
- Article title
titletextRequired - The title of the Wikipedia article to read. Redirects are followed automatically.
- Intro only
intro_onlytrue/false - Return only the article's lead section instead of the full text. Defaults to false.Default:
false. - Language
languagetext - Wikipedia language edition to read, as a language code, for example 'en' (English), 'es' (Spanish), 'de' (German), or 'simple' (Simple English). Defaults to English.Default:
en.
Outputs
contenttext- Plain-text content of the article.
languagetextpageidnumbertitletexturltext
Example output
{
"content": "Python is a high-level, general-purpose programming language. Its design philosophy emphasizes code readability with the use of significant indentation.\n\nPython is dynamically type-checked and garbage-collected.",
"language": "en",
"pageid": 23862,
"title": "Python (programming language)",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_(programming_language)"
}Get random page
Get the summary of a random Wikipedia article, useful for discovery, prompts, or daily-fact style workflows.
Inputs
- Language
languagetext - Wikipedia language edition to read, as a language code, for example 'en' (English), 'es' (Spanish), 'de' (German), or 'simple' (Simple English). Defaults to English.Default:
en.
Outputs
descriptiontextextracttextlanguagetextpageidnumberthumbnailtexttitletexturltext
Example output
{
"description": "Scenic road in Virginia and North Carolina, United States",
"extract": "The Blue Ridge Parkway is a National Parkway and All-American Road in the United States, noted for its scenic beauty. The parkway runs for 469 miles through 29 Virginia and North Carolina counties.",
"language": "en",
"pageid": 320321,
"thumbnail": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Blue_Ridge_Parkway.jpg/320px-Blue_Ridge_Parkway.jpg",
"title": "Blue Ridge Parkway",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Ridge_Parkway"
}Get summary
Get the short summary (lead extract) of a Wikipedia article by its title, along with its description, thumbnail, and link.
Inputs
- Article title
titletextRequired - The exact title of the Wikipedia article, for example 'Python (programming language)'.
- Language
languagetext - Wikipedia language edition to read, as a language code, for example 'en' (English), 'es' (Spanish), 'de' (German), or 'simple' (Simple English). Defaults to English.Default:
en.
Outputs
descriptiontextextracttext- Plain-text lead summary of the article.
languagetextpageidnumberthumbnailtext- URL of the article's thumbnail image, if any.
titletexturltext- Canonical URL of the article.
Example output
{
"description": "General-purpose programming language",
"extract": "Python is a high-level, general-purpose programming language. Its design philosophy emphasizes code readability with the use of significant indentation.",
"language": "en",
"pageid": 23862,
"thumbnail": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Python-logo-notext.svg/320px-Python-logo-notext.svg.png",
"title": "Python (programming language)",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_(programming_language)"
}Search
Search Wikipedia for articles matching a query and return the matching titles with short snippets and links.
Inputs
- Search query
querytextRequired - What to search Wikipedia for, for example 'quantum computing'.
- Result limit
limitnumber - Maximum number of results to return (1–50). Defaults to 10.From 1 to 50. Default:
10. - Language
languagetext - Wikipedia language edition to read, as a language code, for example 'en' (English), 'es' (Spanish), 'de' (German), or 'simple' (Simple English). Defaults to English.Default:
en.
Outputs
countnumber- Number of results returned.
languagetextquerytextresultslisttotal_hitsnumber- Total number of matching articles on Wikipedia.
Example output
{
"count": 2,
"language": "en",
"query": "python programming",
"results": [
{
"pageid": 23862,
"size": 178234,
"snippet": "Python is a high-level, general-purpose programming language.",
"timestamp": "2024-01-15T09:12:00Z",
"title": "Python (programming language)",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_(programming_language)",
"wordcount": 12043
},
{
"pageid": 21356332,
"size": 41234,
"snippet": "The programming language Python was conceived in the late 1980s.",
"timestamp": "2024-01-10T14:00:00Z",
"title": "History of Python",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Python",
"wordcount": 3120
}
],
"total_hits": 4213
}