Wikipedia summary API

Get a concise summary (intro extract) of a Wikipedia article by title. Answers 'what is X', 'summarize the Wikipedia article on Y', 'give me a quick fact about Z'.

Price$0.01per request

MethodPOST

Route/v1/data/wikipedia

StatusLive

MIME typeapplication/json

Rate limit60/minute

Cache3600s public

datawikipediasummaryknowledgefactsencyclopedia

API URLhttps://x402.hexl.dev/v1/data/wikipedia

Integration docs

Example request

{
  "title": "Ethereum"
}

Example response

{
  "title": "Ethereum",
  "description": "Blockchain platform",
  "extract": "Ethereum is a decentralized blockchain...",
  "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethereum",
  "thumbnail": null
}

Input schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "title"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "title": {
      "type": "string",
      "examples": [
        "Ethereum"
      ]
    },
    "lang": {
      "type": "string",
      "default": "en"
    }
  }
}

Output schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "additionalProperties": true
}