# Foundry Wikipedia Summary

> Foundry Wikipedia Summary is a paid API for AI agents from minty-sprout.onrender.com, paid per call via x402, $0.001/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-11-01).

Returns the lead extract, title, URL, and description from Wikipedia for a given topic or article title.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://minty-sprout.onrender.com/v1/wikipedia-summary?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.001/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-11-01
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/foundry-wikipedia-summary-dfac2ae6
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_QALkBroMchfVlF4wAYAqp

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 foundry-wikipedia-summary-dfac2ae6 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you pull the Wikipedia summary and article link for 'Quantum computing' — just the lead extract and a short description?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a concise, authoritative, human-readable summary of a well-known topic along with its canonical Wikipedia URL. It is ideal for enriching documents, answering factual questions, or providing background context without needing to scrape or parse full Wikipedia pages. Prefer it over a general web search when you specifically want the structured Wikipedia lead extract and stable article link.

## Known failure modes

- Topic not found on Wikipedia — returns an empty or error response
- Ambiguous article titles may return the wrong article or a disambiguation notice
- Very new or obscure topics may have no Wikipedia article
- Network timeout if the upstream Wikipedia API is slow
- Malformed or overly long input (>8000 chars) rejected by schema validation

## How this service works

Wikipedia summary: the lead extract and link for a topic. Input: a topic or article title.

## Output

A JSON object containing the Wikipedia article URL, title, lead extract (the opening summary paragraph), a short description, and a CC BY-SA 4.0 license notice. The extract is truncated to a few sentences covering the core definition.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "string",
   "maxLength": 8000,
   "description": "A topic or article title"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin",
  "title": "Bitcoin",
  "extract": "Bitcoin is the first decentralized cryptocurrency. Based on a free-market ideology, bitcoin was invented in 2008 when an unknown person published a white paper under the pseudonym of Satoshi Nakamoto. Use of bitcoin as a currency began in 2",
  "license": "CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikipedia",
  "description": "Decentralized digital cryptocurrency"
 }
}
```

## More

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