Get Wikipedia Article Summary

PythonData

POST api.upapi.io/wikipedia-article.get

Fetch a Wikipedia article summary (description + extract + thumbnail + coordinates) from any supported language via the public REST API.

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AuthAPI key

Cost1 unit

Timeout15s

Cache3600s

Request schema

Field	Type	Description
`title`req	string	Article title, URL-style slug, or free-form text (e.g. "Albert Einstein")
`language`	string	Wikipedia language code· default: `"en"`

Response schema

Field	Type	Description
`lang`req	string
`title`req	string
`extract`req	string
`pageUrl`req	string
`revision`req
`fetchedAt`req	string
`thumbnail`req
`timestamp`req
`coordinates`req
`description`req
`extractHtml`req	string
`displayTitle`req	string
`originalImage`req

Try it

titlerequired

Article title, URL-style slug, or free-form text (e.g. "Albert Einstein")

languageoptional· default: en

Wikipedia language code

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Code examples

curl -X POST https://api.upapi.io/wikipedia-article.get \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -H 'x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY' \
  -d '{ "title": "Albert Einstein", "language": "en" }'

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