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Wikipedia API — The Reference Layer Agents Cite
Articles, full-text search, categories, links, and multilingual data as clean JSON — one call returns a whole article with its section tree, in place of the raw MediaWiki maze. The reference layer your agent cites instead of guessing.
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What You Can Pull From Wikipedia
/api/wikipedia/articlesFull article metadata — title, description, summary, Wikidata ID, image, categories, langlinks, last revision, and canonical URL
/api/wikipedia/articles/categoriesCategory memberships for an article — category title, hidden flag, and canonical web URL
/api/wikipedia/articles/contentFull plain-text article content plus a section index (level, heading, byte offset) for structured navigation
/api/wikipedia/articles/langlinksInterlanguage links — language code and localized title for each linked Wikipedia edition
/api/wikipedia/articles/linksInternal links within an article — title and canonical URL for each outbound link
/api/wikipedia/articles/searchFull-text search results — ranked articles with snippet, word count, size, and last-updated timestamp
/api/wikipedia/categories/membersPages and subcategories belonging to a category — title, type, added date, and canonical URL
What Comes Back
{
"title": "Python (programming language)",
"description": "General-purpose programming language",
"wikidata_id": "Q28865",
"summary": "Python is a high-level, general-purpose programming…",
"categories": ["Programming languages", "Cross-platform software"],
"langlinks": 168,
"last_revision": "2026-07-19T08:41:02Z",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_(programming_language)"
}Built for These Jobs
Give Your Agent a Reference Layer
Articles, categories, and link graphs as typed endpoints — 7 endpoints here, 500+ sources on the same key.
Common Questions
A title (“Albert Einstein”), a numeric page ID, or a full Wikipedia URL — any of these forms resolves to the same article, on every article endpoint.