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Wikipedia Search and Information Retrieval

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Access the vast, multilingual encyclopedia content from Wikipedia for factual lookups, definitions, and general knowledge retrieval.

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GET/w/index.php

Searches Wikipedia for articles matching a query string.

Parameters

limitinteger (optional) — max number of resultsoptional

actionquery (required) — must be 'opensearch'required

searchstring (required) — the search termrequired

Returns

List of suggested article titles and snippets.

GET/w/index.php

Retrieves the full content of a specific Wikipedia article by title.

Parameters

proprevisions (required) — must be 'content'required

actionquery (required) — must be 'query'required

formatstring (optional) — desired output format (e.g.optional— json)

titlesstring (required) — the exact article titlerequired

Returns

The raw text or structured content of the requested article.

GET/w/index.php

Retrieves available language links for a given article title.

Parameters

proplanglinks (required) — list of available languagesrequired

actionquery (required) — must be 'query'required

titlesstring (required) — the article titlerequired

Returns

A list of language codes and corresponding article titles.