{title}: Get article summary

API: wikipedia.org:wikipedia-rest-api
Endpoint: /page/summary/{title}
Response format: application/json
Charset: utf-8
Auth: unknown
Method: GET
Last Status: 200
Latency: 148ms

Description

Returns a summary of a Wikipedia article including title, description, extract, and thumbnail.

Parameters (1)

title (string, path, required)

Article title (URL-encoded)

Examples (1)

Get article summary openapi-spec
curl 'https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/summary/Cat'
import requests

resp = requests.get("https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/summary/Cat")
data = resp.json()
import zingu_apis

api = zingu_apis.api("wikipedia-rest-api")
result = api.fetch("page/summary/{title}")

for item in result:
    print(item)
const resp = await fetch("https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/summary/Cat");
const data = await resp.json();

Probe History

Latency

Status Codes

TimeStatusLatencySize
2026-04-16 01:32:09.939581 200 148ms
2026-04-15 03:16:57.558248 200 162ms
2026-04-14 01:12:52.815126 200 233ms
2026-04-12 15:52:12.110367 200 223ms
2026-04-10 04:09:12.547059 200 836ms
2026-04-09 01:13:56.948427 200 397ms
2026-03-23 09:43:52.810897 200 97ms