# Wiki Summary by Synthora

> Wiki Summary by Synthora is a paid API for AI agents from wiki-summary.hergertsynthora.com, paid per call via x402, $0.02/call, status down (last checked 2026-09-15).

Returns a clean structured Wikipedia summary for any entity, company, protocol, or person given a title string

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://wiki-summary.hergertsynthora.com/service
- Price: $0.02/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: down
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/wiki-summary-by-synthora-481849c8
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_f6mGkLhiMVtAakSeVypfJ

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 wiki-summary-by-synthora-481849c8 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you pull a clean Wikipedia summary for 'Vitalik Buterin' so I have some grounding context on who he is?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need quick, factual, structured summaries of well-known entities, people, companies, or protocols without scraping Wikipedia yourself. Ideal for grounding AI agents with encyclopedic context at low cost ($0.001 per call) via x402 micropayment on Base. Prefer this over a web scraper when you need clean structured output and Wikipedia is a sufficient source.

## Known failure modes

- Wikipedia article not found for given title — upstream 404 or empty result, no charge applied
- Ambiguous or misspelled title returns wrong article summary
- Wikipedia REST API upstream failure — no charge applied per service terms
- Malformed request missing required 'title' field returns validation error

## How this service works

Clean structured summary of any entity, company, protocol or person from Wikipedia REST. Grounding data for research agents (no scraping needed). Free source. $0.01 USDC via x402 on Base. SYNTHORA.

## Output

A structured summary object containing a clean textual description and metadata about the queried entity as sourced from Wikipedia, suitable for use as grounding data in research or RAG pipelines.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "required": [
  "title"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "title": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "title"
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/wiki-summary-by-synthora-481849c8/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from wiki-summary.hergertsynthora.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/wiki-summary.hergertsynthora.com/llms.txt)