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Wikipedia Summary Lookup
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Wikipedia Summary Lookup is a paid API for AI agents from intel.rallylive.ca, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).
Fetches the lead paragraph, short description, thumbnail, page URL, and coordinates for a Wikipedia topic, resolving redirects and falling back to search when the exact title is not found.
Price / call$0.01
Success—
StatusUnknown
How this service works
Wikipedia summary: the lead paragraph, short description, thumbnail, page URL and coordinates for a topic, resolving redirects and falling back to search when the exact title does not exist. Quick grounded facts for any agent. $0.01 per lookup.
Output
Returns the Wikipedia lead paragraph (plain text summary), a short description (the brief blurb Wikipedia maintains for the page), a thumbnail image URL, the canonical Wikipedia page URL, and geographic coordinates if the topic is a place. Redirects are resolved transparently, and if the exact title is not found the endpoint falls back to a Wikipedia search to find the best matching article.
Example use cases
Agent fact-checking on a named entity
“I'm writing a bio section for our site about Marie Curie — can you grab her Wikipedia summary, short description, and thumbnail so I have a grounded starting point?”
Geo-enrichment for a location query
“Get me the Wikipedia summary for 'Mount Kilimanjaro', including its coordinates and the lead paragraph, so I can display it on our travel info card.”
Quick background context for a topic
“Before my meeting I need a fast overview of 'quantum entanglement' — can you fetch the Wikipedia lead paragraph and short description for it?”
Technical details
Endpoint
GEThttps://intel.rallylive.ca/data/wiki-summaryWhen to prefer
Choose this endpoint when you need fast, grounded, human-readable factual context about any named entity, concept, person, place, or event without having to scrape or parse Wikipedia yourself. It is ideal for agent pipelines that need a reliable one-call lookup with redirect resolution and search fallback, returning structured fields (summary, description, thumbnail, URL, coordinates) rather than raw HTML. Prefer it over generic web-search endpoints when Wikipedia coverage is sufficient and you want clean structured output rather than a list of raw URLs.
Side effects
- Topic not found even after search fallback — returns empty or null result
- Disambiguation page returned when title is ambiguous — summary may be minimal or reflect the disambiguation page itself
- Thumbnail not available for all topics — field may be null
- Coordinates not available for non-geographic topics — field will be absent or null
- Rate limit or payment failure — 402 Payment Required if x402 funds are insufficient
Input
Schema · Request body
| Field | Type | Description |
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| output | object |
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