Wikipedia MCP API Documentation

February 21, 2026 · View on GitHub

This document describes the API endpoints and tools available in the Wikipedia MCP server.

Transport Notes

  • stdio is the default local transport.
  • http / streamable-http are the preferred network transports (default path: /mcp).
  • sse is retained for compatibility and considered legacy.
  • Tool/resource interfaces below are transport-agnostic.

HTTP Endpoints

Search Articles

GET /search/{query}

Search Wikipedia for articles matching a query.

Parameters:

  • query (string, required): The search query

Response:

{
    "query": "search query",
    "results": [
        {
            "title": "Article title",
            "snippet": "Article snippet",
            "pageid": 12345,
            "wordcount": 1000,
            "timestamp": "2024-03-08T12:00:00Z"
        }
    ]
}

Get Article

GET /article/{title}

Get the full content of a Wikipedia article.

Parameters:

  • title (string, required): The title of the Wikipedia article

Response:

{
    "title": "Article title",
    "pageid": 12345,
    "summary": "Article summary",
    "text": "Full article text",
    "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_title",
    "sections": [
        {
            "title": "Section title",
            "text": "Section content",
            "level": 1
        }
    ],
    "categories": ["Category1", "Category2"],
    "links": ["Link1", "Link2"],
    "exists": true
}

Get Summary

GET /summary/{title}

Get a summary of a Wikipedia article.

Parameters:

  • title (string, required): The title of the Wikipedia article

Response:

{
    "title": "Article title",
    "summary": "Article summary"
}

Get Sections

GET /sections/{title}

Get the sections of a Wikipedia article.

Parameters:

  • title (string, required): The title of the Wikipedia article

Response:

{
    "title": "Article title",
    "sections": [
        {
            "title": "Section title",
            "text": "Section content",
            "level": 1
        }
    ]
}

GET /links/{title}

Get the links in a Wikipedia article.

Parameters:

  • title (string, required): The title of the Wikipedia article

Response:

{
    "title": "Article title",
    "links": ["Link1", "Link2", "Link3"]
}

MCP Tools

Every canonical tool also has an alias prefixed with wikipedia_ (for example, wikipedia_search_wikipedia, wikipedia_get_article, etc.) with the same schema and behavior.

search_wikipedia

Search Wikipedia for articles matching a query.

Parameters:

  • query (string, required): The search query
  • limit (integer, optional, default=10): Maximum number of results to return

get_article

Get the full content of a Wikipedia article.

Parameters:

  • title (string, required): The title of the Wikipedia article

get_summary

Get a summary of a Wikipedia article.

Parameters:

  • title (string, required): The title of the Wikipedia article

Get topics related to a Wikipedia article based on links and categories.

Parameters:

  • title (string, required): The title of the Wikipedia article
  • limit (integer, optional, default=10): Maximum number of related topics to return

get_sections

Get the sections of a Wikipedia article.

Parameters:

  • title (string, required): The title of the Wikipedia article

Response:

{
  "title": "Article title",
  "sections": [
    { "title": "Section title", "text": "Section content", "level": 1 }
  ]
}

Get the links in a Wikipedia article.

Parameters:

  • title (string, required): The title of the Wikipedia article

Response:

{
  "title": "Article title",
  "links": ["Link1", "Link2", "Link3"]
}

get_coordinates

Get the coordinates of a Wikipedia article.

Parameters:

  • title (string, required): The title of the Wikipedia article

Response:

{
  "title": "Eiffel Tower",
  "pageid": 1359783,
  "coordinates": [
    {
      "latitude": 48.8584,
      "longitude": 2.2945,
      "primary": true,
      "globe": "earth",
      "type": "landmark",
      "name": "Eiffel Tower",
      "region": "FR-75",
      "country": "FR"
    }
  ],
  "exists": true,
  "error": null
}

summarize_article_for_query

Get a summary of a Wikipedia article tailored to a specific query.

Parameters:

  • title (string, required): The article title
  • query (string, required): The query to focus the summary on
  • max_length (integer, optional, default=250): Maximum summary length

Response:

{
  "title": "Quantum computing",
  "query": "Shor's algorithm",
  "summary": "…contextual snippet around the query…"
}

summarize_article_section

Get a summary of a specific section of a Wikipedia article.

Parameters:

  • title (string, required): The article title
  • section_title (string, required): The section to summarize
  • max_length (integer, optional, default=150): Maximum summary length

Response:

{
  "title": "Quantum computing",
  "section_title": "History",
  "summary": "…first N characters of the section…"
}

extract_key_facts

Extract key facts from a Wikipedia article, optionally focused on a topic within the article.

Parameters:

  • title (string, required): The article title
  • topic_within_article (string, optional): Topic/section to focus on
  • count (integer, optional, default=5): Number of facts

Response:

{
  "title": "Alan Turing",
  "topic_within_article": "Early life",
  "facts": [
    "Alan Turing was born in…",
    "He studied at…"
  ]
}

test_wikipedia_connectivity

Diagnostic tool to verify connectivity to the Wikipedia API for the configured language/variant.

Parameters:

  • none

Response:

{
  "status": "success",
  "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php",
  "language": "en",
  "site_name": "Wikipedia",
  "server": "https://en.wikipedia.org",
  "response_time_ms": 123.45
}

Additional MCP Resources (path-like)

These are exposed as MCP resources and available when running with SSE transport:

  • search/{query}
  • article/{title}
  • summary/{title}
  • sections/{title}
  • links/{title}
  • coordinates/{title}
  • summary/{title}/query/{query}/length/{max_length}
  • summary/{title}/section/{section_title}/length/{max_length}
  • facts/{title}/topic/{topic_within_article}/count/{count}

Note: These are not general-purpose REST endpoints; they are part of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) resource interface.