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Wikipedia API — search, summaries & content (no key)

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Search Wikipedia, get clean article summaries (with thumbnail + link), and pull plain-text content in any language. Great for agents and RAG. Clean HTTP API + MCP, no key. Pay per query.

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from $2.00 / 1,000 wikipedia queries

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The use case it was built for

Agents and RAG systems constantly need "what is X?" with a citable source. This API returns clean text (no HTML, no wiki markup) plus the article URL, so you can ground answers and link back. Multilingual out of the box.

Sample output (`summary`, "Argentina")

{
  "ok": true, "lang": "en", "title": "Argentina",
  "description": "Country in South America",
  "extract": "Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country in the southern half of South America…",
  "thumbnail": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/…", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentina"
}

How to use

HTTP API (Standby): POST or GET /search, /summary, /content. GET / returns help. Example: GET /summary?title=Photosynthesis&lang=en.
Normal run: pass { operation, q | title, lang }; results land in the dataset + key-value store.
MCP tool: expose it to your agent via Apify's MCP server for grounded answers.

Input

operation — search · summary · content.
q — search text. title — article title (summary/content). lang — language code.
intro / maxChars — (content) intro-only and length cap. limit — search results.

Pricing

Per query from $0.004 (down to $0.0015 on higher tiers). One call = one query.

World Bank Data — structured global stats to pair with encyclopedic context.

FAQ

Which languages? Any Wikipedia language — set lang (e.g. es, pt, fr).

Is the text clean? Yes — plain text, no HTML or wiki markup.

Licensing? Wikipedia content is CC BY-SA; attribute Wikipedia and link back (the url is included).

Notes & limits

Content from Wikipedia via the Wikimedia APIs. Up to 50 search results; content can be capped with maxChars.

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