# locus.report Wikipedia Place Context

> locus.report Wikipedia Place Context is a paid API for AI agents from locus.report, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-16).

Returns geotagged English Wikipedia articles near a geographic point or address, with page, revision, distance, and license metadata

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://locus.report/api/locus-wikipedia-place-context
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-16
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/locus-report-wikipedia-place-context-31938568
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_fm7dBoAltJl_vtR97MN91

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 locus-report-wikipedia-place-context-31938568 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you find Wikipedia articles about places near 350 Fifth Avenue, New York within 500 meters — show me up to 10 results with their distance and license info?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need encyclopedic, cited background on what is geographically near a specific point — ideal for enriching due diligence reports, travel planning, neighborhood research, or any workflow that benefits from structured Wikipedia provenance (page ID, revision, license). Prefer this over generic web search when you need structured, license-attributed results with distance metadata rather than raw search results. Not suitable for real-time conditions, property records, official regulatory data, or current-event monitoring.

## Known failure modes

- No Wikipedia articles within radius — returns empty results, no charge applied
- Address geocoding failure — address cannot be resolved to coordinates
- Invalid coordinates — latitude or longitude out of bounds returns validation error
- Radius exceeds maximum 10,000 meters — request rejected
- Wikipedia geosearch source temporarily unavailable — endpoint returns unavailable signal, no charge applied
- Limit parameter out of range (below 1 or above 20) — validation error

## How this service works

Geotagged English Wikipedia articles near a point. Perfect for: bounded community reference research with page, revision, distance, and license provenance. Geosearch is topic-agnostic and may return places, institutions, events, or people. Results are not official, property, resident, screening, or current-condition evidence. Charge-free when no article matches or the source is unavailable.

## Output

A list of geotagged Wikipedia articles near the specified point, each including the article title, Wikipedia page URL, revision ID for provenance, straight-line distance from the query point, and license metadata. Results may cover places, institutions, events, or people documented in English Wikipedia. If no articles match within the radius or the source is unavailable, no charge is incurred.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "limit": {
   "type": "integer",
   "default": 10,
   "maximum": 20,
   "minimum": 1
  },
  "address": {
   "type": "string",
   "maxLength": 200,
   "minLength": 5
  },
  "latitude": {
   "type": "number",
   "maximum": 90,
   "minimum": -90
  },
  "longitude": {
   "type": "number",
   "maximum": 180,
   "minimum": -180
  },
  "radiusMeters": {
   "type": "integer",
   "default": 1000,
   "maximum": 10000,
   "minimum": 100
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/locus-report-wikipedia-place-context-31938568/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from locus.report](https://www.zero.xyz/host/locus.report/llms.txt)