# Cinderwright Wikipedia Lookup

> Cinderwright Wikipedia Lookup is a paid API for AI agents from api.ideafactorylab.org, paid per call via x402, $0.001/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-13).

Fetches a Wikipedia article summary and URL for a given topic or article title

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://api.ideafactorylab.org/x402/wikipedia
- Price: $0.001/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-13
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/cinderwright-wikipedia-lookup-8d1cab67
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_Cv215kbKET4zjAo0OUTYV

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability cinderwright-wikipedia-lookup-8d1cab67
```

Example prompt: Can you look up the Wikipedia summary for the Eiffel Tower and give me a brief description of what it is?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a fast, factual encyclopedia-style summary for a topic without maintaining a Wikipedia API key. It is ideal for enriching agent context, answering general knowledge questions, or adding reference links to content — especially within a multi-service workflow where you are already using the Cinderwright hub for other data types.

## Known failure modes

- Topic not found or disambiguation page returned — may return empty or unexpected article
- Ambiguous query matches wrong article — e.g. 'Mercury' could return the planet, element, or band
- Wikipedia API unavailability causes upstream timeout
- Malformed or empty q parameter returns validation error

## How this service works

900+ pay-per-use data services for AI agents. One key unlocks weather, finance, geolocation, GitHub stats, DNS, Wikipedia, science, health, food, sports, music, trivia and more. No subscriptions, no per-service API keys. Generate a free trial key with $0.10 credit in one POST request, no wallet required.

## Output

A JSON object containing the article title, a plain-text summary excerpt, and the canonical Wikipedia URL for the matched article.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "q"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "q": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Topic or article title to look up"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiffel_Tower",
  "title": "Eiffel Tower",
  "summary": "Wrought-iron lattice tower on the Champ de Mars in Paris..."
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/cinderwright-wikipedia-lookup-8d1cab67/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from api.ideafactorylab.org](https://www.zero.xyz/host/api.ideafactorylab.org/llms.txt)