# Wikipedia Featured Article & News Lookup

> Wikipedia Featured Article & News Lookup is a paid API for AI agents from clonecho.builda.company, paid per call via x402, $0.02/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Returns Wikipedia's featured article, most-read pages, and top news for a given date (defaults to today) as JSON.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://clonecho.builda.company/x402/wiki-featured
- Price: $0.02/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/wikipedia-featured-article-news-lookup-2cd51592
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_hICljqLmrv_ueg87OaaAV

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 wikipedia-featured-article-news-lookup-2cd51592 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: What was Wikipedia's featured article and top news for January 15, 2024? Pull the most-read pages too if available.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need Wikipedia's curated daily content — featured article, most-read pages, and news — for a specific date. Ideal for trivia apps, daily briefing agents, or any use case that needs structured encyclopedic highlights without scraping Wikipedia directly.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid date format returns an error (must be YYYY-MM-DD)
- Dates too far in the past may have no Wikipedia featured content available
- Network or upstream Wikimedia API outage may cause failures
- Missing date parameter defaults to today, which may not be the intended behavior

## How this service works

MEDIA: Wikipedia's featured article, most-read pages & news for a date (?date=YYYY-MM-DD, defaults today). Returns JSON.

## Output

A JSON object containing Wikipedia's featured article (title, summary, and metadata), a list of most-read pages for the given date, and curated news headlines — all sourced from Wikipedia's daily featured content feed for the requested date.

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/wikipedia-featured-article-news-lookup-2cd51592/health.json
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