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Wikipedia REST API

Article summaries, featured content and media from Wikipedia in clean JSON.

StatusLive · verified 23 Oct 2026 · 587 ms
AuthenticationNone — call it right now
Browser CORSYes — works from front-end code
Free limitsFree, be polite
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📸 Real response, captured by us

Not a mockup — this is what Wikipedia REST API actually returned when we verified it on 23 Oct 2026 (in 587 ms).

{
  "type": "standard",
  "title": "Knight",
  "displaytitle": "<span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><span class=\"mw-page-title-main\">Knight</span></span>",
  "namespace": {
    "id": 0,
    "text": ""
  },
  "wikibase_item": "Q102083",
  "titles": {
    "canonical": "Knight",
    "normalized": "Knight",
    "display": "<span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><span class=\"mw-page-title-main\">Knight</span></span>"
  },
  "pageid": 16897,
  "thumbnail": {
    "source": "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/Codex_Manesse_Hartmann_von_Aue.jpg/330px-Codex_Manesse_Hartmann_von_Aue.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail",
    "width": 330,
    "height": 487
  

💻 Copy-paste code

Three ways to call Wikipedia REST API — pick your weapon.

// Wikipedia REST API — no build step, no library. Just fetch.
const res = await fetch("https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/summary/Knight");
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);

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