# ManyLives Tools – Wikipedia Summary Lookup

> ManyLives Tools – Wikipedia Summary Lookup is a paid API for AI agents from api.manylives.me, paid per call via x402, $0.002/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-10).

Fetches a concise Wikipedia article summary (title, extract, description, URL) for any given topic or article title

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://api.manylives.me/paid/wiki/summary?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.002/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-10
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/manylives-tools-wikipedia-summary-lookup-2f1d6cf5
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_LUJSQhuxnIoiey3jDO5Bv

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 manylives-tools-wikipedia-summary-lookup-2f1d6cf5
```

Example prompt: Can you pull up a quick Wikipedia summary for 'Proof of Stake' in English so I have a plain-language explanation of how it works?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when an AI agent needs a quick, factual, human-readable summary of a concept, term, project, or entity — especially in financial, crypto, or technical research contexts — and doesn't need the full article content. It is cheaper and faster than scraping Wikipedia directly and requires no authentication. Prefer it over general web search when you specifically want encyclopedic, neutral-tone background information.

## Known failure modes

- Article not found for the given title — returns empty or error response
- Ambiguous title resolves to wrong article — extract may be off-topic
- Non-English language code unsupported or article not available in that language
- Network timeout or upstream Wikipedia API unavailability
- Missing required 'title' query parameter causes request failure

## How this service works

Pay-per-call tools for people building AI agents: live web search and page contents, point-in-time crypto market data and news for backtests (no lookahead), verifiable track records of 1,000 crypto strategies locked on the Base network, company profiles, quick AI and batch prices. Ask us to turn a public website into a JSON endpoint. Pay per call, no account, free trial.

## Output

A JSON object containing the Wikipedia article's title, a plain-text extract (short summary paragraph), a brief description phrase, and the canonical Wikipedia URL for the 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": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "GET"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "title"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "lang": {
       "type": "string",
       "examples": [
        "en"
       ],
       "description": "optional language code (default en)"
      },
      "title": {
       "type": "string",
       "examples": [
        "Base64"
       ],
       "description": "topic or article title (required)"
      }
     }
    }
   }
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "json"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {
      "url": {
       "type": "string"
      },
      "title": {
       "type": "string"
      },
      "extract": {
       "type": "string"
      },
      "description": {
       "type": "string"
      }
     }
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "url": "https://…",
  "title": "Base64",
  "extract": "…",
  "description": "Binary-to-text encoding scheme"
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/manylives-tools-wikipedia-summary-lookup-2f1d6cf5/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from api.manylives.me](https://www.zero.xyz/host/api.manylives.me/llms.txt)