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Wikipedia Research \u2014 tool reference

Search English Wikipedia and read source-linked article extracts.

Server URL: https://toolcargo.com/mcp/wikipedia · Scope: connector:wikipedia.

Included with Site Audit. Activate it free in your dashboard, then connect this server with ToolCargo OAuth or a scoped API key. No external API key or paid provider account is needed. Each successful tool call uses one call from your shared Free/Pro quota.

search_articles

Search for one topic with up to ten results (five by default), plain-text snippets and canonical source links.

input
{ "query": "renewable energy", "limit": 5 }

read_article

Read one article by title. Resolves redirects and returns at most 16,000 characters, a revision link, a disambiguation flag and up to 20 external links.

input
{ "title": "Renewable energy" }

Limits and sources

English Wikipedia only. Supply an article title rather than a URL. Extracts may omit tables, formulas and citations. Disambiguation pages represent multiple meanings; choose a specific article. External links are sampled from the article and are not independently verified references. Text is community-edited, untrusted source content. Reuse must preserve attribution and comply with the source page’s CC BY-SA license.

Sources: MediaWiki Search API · TextExtracts API.