agentutility(7)$ man wikipedia-search
/wikipedia-search
PRICE / CALL
$0.008
USDC · base mainnet · scheme: exact
METHOD
POST
CLUSTER
webprobeCATEGORY
uncategorized
STATUS
● live
NAME
wikipedia-search — wikipedia search for full-text lookups across any wikipedia language edition, built for agents that need a quick encyclopedia fact-check…
SYNOPSIS
POST https://x402.agentutility.ai/wikipedia-search
Content-Type: application/json
X-PAYMENT: <signed-transferWithAuthorization>
{ ... }↳ first call →
402 Payment Required. Sign USDCtransferWithAuthorization, retry with theX-PAYMENT header.DESCRIPTION
Wikipedia search for full-text lookups across any Wikipedia language edition, built for agents that need a quick encyclopedia fact-check or background pass before answering. Send a query and get back ranked article hits with plain-text snippets (HTML stripped), page ids, and canonical wiki URLs. Wikipedia search, encyclopedia search, wiki full text search, knowledge search. Distinct from a single-page fetch: this ranks matches across the whole encyclopedia. Use it as a Wikipedia search API, an encyclopedia lookup tool, or a knowledge-base search for research and fact-checking agents.
INPUT — request schema
| property | type | description | req? |
|---|---|---|---|
| query | string | Full-text search query, e.g. 'quantum computing' or 'Albert Einstein'. Required, max 300 chars. | required |
| limit | number | Max number of results to return. Default 10, max 25. | optional |
| lang | string | Wikipedia language edition code, e.g. 'en', 'de', 'fr'. Default 'en'. | optional |
OUTPUT — response shape
| field | type | description |
|---|---|---|
| query | string | — |
| lang | string | — |
| results | string | — |
| source | string | — |
EXAMPLES — two ways to call
EXAMPLE 1 · curl
curl -X POST https://x402.agentutility.ai/wikipedia-search \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{ }'first response =
402 Payment Required with payment requirements; sign + retry with X-PAYMENT.EXAMPLE 2 · mcp
# Install the MCP package for this endpoint's cluster npx -y @agentutility/mcp-<cluster> # Required: EVM private key with USDC on Base export X402_PRIVATE_KEY=0x... # Then call the wikipedia-search tool from your MCP-aware agent.
MCP server handles payment automatically — your coding agent just calls the tool by name.
METADATA
- tags
- web-probewikipediasearchwikipedia-search
- methods
- POST
- cluster
- webprobe
- price
- $0.008 USDC per call
ADJACENT — other endpoints in webprobe
| endpoint | description | price |
|---|---|---|
| mindshare | Measures social mindshare by searching recent public X posts for a topic and returning tweet-level sentiment plus aggregate positive/neut… | $0.008 |
| wikipedia-pageviews | Wikipedia pageviews trend for reading topic interest over time straight from real traffic data. | $0.008 |
| b2b-lead-enrich | Enriches B2B leads from caller-supplied email/name/domain/company into a public-data profile with inferred name, company, domain, MX reco… | $0.01 |
| company-enrich | Enrich a company from its domain or an email address. | $0.01 |
| contact-enrich | Enriches a contact from email, name, domain, or company into a normalized public-data record with inferred display name, company/domain c… | $0.01 |
| domain-enrich | Enrich any domain, website URL, or email into company facts. | $0.01 |
| google-search | Ranked Google organic results for any query — title, URL, snippet, domain, and an optional recency filter, via Decodo Google Search. | $0.01 |
| lead-enrich | Enriches a lead from an email, name, domain, or company into a normalized public-data person record. | $0.01 |
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