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Wikipedia

Article summaries, search and structured facts.

base /wikipedia/v110 endpoints

post/wikipedia/v1/summary1 credit

page summary: extract, description, thumbnail, coordinates, wikibase QID, urls (lang= any of 360+ editions)

Parameter		Allowed / range	Description
title	required	—	Exact article title (case-sensitive first letter aside).
lang = en	optional	—	Wikipedia language edition code (en, de, fr, ja, … 360+ editions). Default en.

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post/wikipedia/v1/page1 credit

full article: plain-text body + internal links + image list + categories + external links (content=false → structure only)

Parameter		Allowed / range	Description
title	required	—	Exact article title (case-sensitive first letter aside).
lang = en	optional	—	Wikipedia language edition code (en, de, fr, ja, … 360+ editions). Default en.
content = true	optional	—	false (or 0/no) → return article STRUCTURE only (links/images/categories), skip the plain-text body.
links_limit = 100	optional	1–500	Max internal links to return (1-500); clamped.
images_limit = 50	optional	1–200	Max images to return (1-200); clamped.

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post/wikipedia/v1/search1 credit

full-text search → ranked pages (snippet/pageid/wordcount) + totalhits; enrich= adds extract/thumbnail/QID

Parameter		Allowed / range	Description
query	required	—	Full-text search query.
lang = en	optional	—	Wikipedia language edition code (en, de, fr, ja, … 360+ editions). Default en.
limit = 10	optional	1–50	Max results (1-50, default 10); clamped.
offset = 0	optional	0–10000	Result offset for pagination (0-10000); page with meta/next_offset.
enrich = false	optional	—	If true, hydrate each result with extract + thumbnail + Wikidata QID (extra requests).

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post/wikipedia/v1/entity_facts2 credits

Wikidata facts for a QID or title: label/description/aliases + resolved human-readable facts{prop:value} + key_facts + identifiers + image/coords

Parameter		Allowed / range	Description
id	optional	—	Wikidata QID (e.g. Q937). Supply this OR `title`/`query` to resolve one.
title	optional	—	Article/entity title to resolve to a Wikidata QID. Supply this OR `id`.
lang = en	optional	—	Wikipedia language edition code (en, de, fr, ja, … 360+ editions). Default en.
value_cap = 50	optional	1–200	Max values kept per multi-valued Wikidata property (1-200); clamped.

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post/wikipedia/v1/pageviews1 credit

daily/monthly traffic for an article over a date range → series + total + average

Parameter		Allowed / range	Description
title	required	—	Article title to pull traffic for.
lang = en	optional	—	Wikipedia language edition code (en, de, fr, ja, … 360+ editions). Default en.
start	optional	—	Range start date, YYYYMMDD or YYYY-MM-DD. Supply both start AND end, or use `days` instead.
end	optional	—	Range end date, YYYYMMDD or YYYY-MM-DD. Supply both start AND end, or use `days` instead.
days = 30	optional	1–1000	Look-back window ending today, used when start/end are omitted (1-1000).
granularity = daily	optional	daily · monthly	Bucket size. Anything not starting with 'month' is treated as daily.
access = all-access	optional	all-access · desktop · mobile-app · mobile-web	Wikimedia Pageviews access channel (passed through to the REST API).
agent = all-agents	optional	all-agents · user · spider · automated	Wikimedia Pageviews agent class (passed through to the REST API).

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post/wikipedia/v1/related1 credit

pages related to a title; enrich= adds extract/thumbnail

Parameter		Allowed / range	Description
title	required	—	Exact article title (case-sensitive first letter aside).
lang = en	optional	—	Wikipedia language edition code (en, de, fr, ja, … 360+ editions). Default en.
limit = 10	optional	1–50	Max results (1-50, default 10); clamped.
enrich = false	optional	—	If true, hydrate each result with extract + thumbnail + Wikidata QID (extra requests).

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post/wikipedia/v1/autocompletefree

typeahead title suggestions

Parameter		Allowed / range	Description
q	required	—	Typeahead prefix to autocomplete.
lang = en	optional	—	Wikipedia language edition code (en, de, fr, ja, … 360+ editions). Default en.
limit = 10	optional	1–50	Max results (1-50, default 10); clamped.

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post/wikipedia/v1/geosearch1 credit

Wikipedia pages near a coordinate or around a title

Parameter		Allowed / range	Description
lat	optional	-90–90	Latitude. Provide lat+lon, OR `coord`, OR `title` for geosearch.
lon	optional	-180–180	Longitude (pairs with lat).
coord	optional	—	'lat,lon' string — alternative to separate lat/lon params.
title	optional	—	Find pages near THIS article's coordinates (alternative to lat/lon/coord).
radius = 1000	optional	10–10000	Search radius in metres (10-10000); clamped.
limit = 10	optional	1–50	Max results (1-50, default 10); clamped.
lang = en	optional	—	Wikipedia language edition code (en, de, fr, ja, … 360+ editions). Default en.

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post/wikipedia/v1/on_this_day1 credit

Parameter		Allowed / range	Description
month	optional	1–12	Month 1-12 (pair with `day`), OR supply `date` instead. Defaults to today.
day	optional	1–31	Day-of-month 1-31 (pairs with `month`).
date	optional	—	Date whose month-day is used (MM-DD or YYYY-MM-DD). Alternative to month/day.
kind = all	optional	all · selected · events · births · deaths · holidays	Which on-this-day category. An unknown value falls back to 'all'.
limit = 30	optional	1–100	Max results (1-100, default 30); clamped.
lang = en	optional	—	Wikipedia language edition code (en, de, fr, ja, … 360+ editions). Default en.

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post/wikipedia/v1/top_articles1 credit

most-viewed articles for a given date (trending)

Parameter		Allowed / range	Description
date	optional	—	Day to rank, YYYY-MM-DD or YYYYMMDD. Defaults to yesterday (today lags).
limit = 50	optional	1–1000	Max results (1-1000, default 50); clamped.
access = all-access	optional	all-access · desktop · mobile-app · mobile-web	Wikimedia Pageviews access channel (passed through to the REST API).
include_special = false	optional	—	Keep special pages (Main_Page, Special:Search) in the ranking; default drops them.
lang = en	optional	—	Wikipedia language edition code (en, de, fr, ja, … 360+ editions). Default en.

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Example request · summary

curl -X POST https://api.reefapi.com/wikipedia/v1/summary \
  -H "x-api-key: $REEF_KEY" \
  -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -d '{"title":"Albert Einstein"}'

Response shape

{
  "ok": true,
  "data": { /* the result */ },
  "meta": {
    "latency_ms": 240,
    "record_count": 12,
    "completeness_pct": 100
  },
  "error": null
}