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Wikipedia Get Summary

Get a brief summary/introduction from a Wikipedia article. This is a convenience tool that extracts just the first paragraph(s) of an article. No API key required.

Livelast probed 2026-04-30 23:07Z· 97msCortexa

Status

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Last probed: 1d ago
Last success: 1d ago
Last latency: 97ms

Schema

JSON Schema the agent (or your API call) must match.

{
  "properties": {
    "language": {
      "default": "en",
      "description": "Wikipedia language code (e.g., 'en' for English). Default: 'en'",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "max_chars": {
      "default": 500,
      "description": "Maximum characters to return. Default: 500",
      "minimum": 100,
      "type": "integer"
    },
    "title": {
      "description": "Wikipedia article title (exact title as it appears on Wikipedia)",
      "type": "string"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "title"
  ],
  "type": "object"
}

Examples (1)

Default Wikipedia Get Summary call

public-safeinput

{
  "max_chars": 1,
  "title": ""
}

Expected response keys: success

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Identifiers

Catalog ID: tu_Wikipedia_get_summary
Tool name: Wikipedia_get_summary
Added: 2026-04-30 22:47Z
Tags: tooluniverse

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