---
title: Wikipedia
description: Search and retrieve content from Wikipedia
---

import { BlockInfoCard } from "@/components/ui/block-info-card"

<BlockInfoCard 
  type="wikipedia"
  color="#000000"
/>

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[Wikipedia](https://www.wikipedia.org/) is the world's largest free online encyclopedia, offering millions of articles on a vast range of topics, collaboratively written and maintained by volunteers.

With Wikipedia, you can:

- **Search for articles**: Find relevant Wikipedia pages by searching for keywords or topics
- **Get article summaries**: Retrieve concise summaries of Wikipedia pages for quick reference
- **Access full content**: Obtain the complete content of Wikipedia articles for in-depth information
- **Discover random articles**: Explore new topics by retrieving random Wikipedia pages

In Sim, the Wikipedia integration enables your agents to programmatically access and interact with Wikipedia content as part of their workflows. Agents can search for articles, fetch summaries, retrieve full page content, and discover random articles, empowering your automations with up-to-date, reliable information from the world's largest encyclopedia. This integration is ideal for scenarios such as research, content enrichment, fact-checking, and knowledge discovery, allowing your agents to seamlessly incorporate Wikipedia data into their decision-making and task execution processes.
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## Usage Instructions

Integrate Wikipedia into the workflow. Can get page summary, search pages, get page content, and get random page.



## Tools

### `wikipedia_summary`

Get a summary and metadata for a specific Wikipedia page.

#### Input

| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
| --------- | ---- | -------- | ----------- |
| `pageTitle` | string | Yes | Title of the Wikipedia page to get summary for |

#### Output

| Parameter | Type | Description |
| --------- | ---- | ----------- |
| `summary` | object | Wikipedia page summary and metadata |
|   ↳ `type` | string | Page type \(standard, disambiguation, etc.\) |
|   ↳ `title` | string | Page title |
|   ↳ `displaytitle` | string | Display title with formatting |
|   ↳ `description` | string | Short page description |
|   ↳ `extract` | string | Page extract/summary text |
|   ↳ `extract_html` | string | Extract in HTML format |
|   ↳ `thumbnail` | object | Thumbnail image data |
|     ↳ `source` | string | Thumbnail image URL |
|     ↳ `width` | number | Thumbnail width in pixels |
|     ↳ `height` | number | Thumbnail height in pixels |
|   ↳ `originalimage` | object | Original image data |
|     ↳ `source` | string | Thumbnail image URL |
|     ↳ `width` | number | Thumbnail width in pixels |
|     ↳ `height` | number | Thumbnail height in pixels |
|   ↳ `content_urls` | object | URLs to access the page |
|     ↳ `desktop` | object | Desktop URLs |
|       ↳ `page` | string | Page URL |
|       ↳ `revisions` | string | Revisions URL |
|       ↳ `edit` | string | Edit URL |
|       ↳ `talk` | string | Talk page URL |
|     ↳ `mobile` | object | Mobile URLs |
|       ↳ `page` | string | Page URL |
|       ↳ `revisions` | string | Revisions URL |
|       ↳ `edit` | string | Edit URL |
|       ↳ `talk` | string | Talk page URL |
|   ↳ `lang` | string | Page language code |
|   ↳ `dir` | string | Text direction \(ltr or rtl\) |
|   ↳ `timestamp` | string | Last modification timestamp |
|   ↳ `pageid` | number | Wikipedia page ID |
|   ↳ `wikibase_item` | string | Wikidata item ID |
|   ↳ `coordinates` | object | Geographic coordinates |
|     ↳ `lat` | number | Latitude |
|     ↳ `lon` | number | Longitude |

### `wikipedia_search`

Search for Wikipedia pages by title or content.

#### Input

| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
| --------- | ---- | -------- | ----------- |
| `query` | string | Yes | Search query to find Wikipedia pages |
| `searchLimit` | number | No | Maximum number of results to return \(default: 10, max: 50\) |

#### Output

| Parameter | Type | Description |
| --------- | ---- | ----------- |
| `searchResults` | array | Array of matching Wikipedia pages |
|   ↳ `id` | number | Result index |
|   ↳ `key` | string | URL-friendly page key |
|   ↳ `title` | string | Page title |
|   ↳ `excerpt` | string | Search result excerpt |
|   ↳ `matched_title` | string | Matched title variant |
|   ↳ `description` | string | Page description |
|   ↳ `thumbnail` | object | Thumbnail data |
|     ↳ `mimetype` | string | Image MIME type |
|     ↳ `size` | number | File size in bytes |
|     ↳ `width` | number | Width in pixels |
|     ↳ `height` | number | Height in pixels |
|     ↳ `duration` | number | Duration for video |
|     ↳ `url` | string | Thumbnail URL |
|   ↳ `url` | string | Page URL |
| `totalHits` | number | Total number of search results found |
| `query` | string | The search query that was executed |

### `wikipedia_content`

Get the full HTML content of a Wikipedia page.

#### Input

| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
| --------- | ---- | -------- | ----------- |
| `pageTitle` | string | Yes | Title of the Wikipedia page to get content for |

#### Output

| Parameter | Type | Description |
| --------- | ---- | ----------- |
| `content` | object | Full HTML content and metadata of the Wikipedia page |
|   ↳ `title` | string | Page title |
|   ↳ `pageid` | number | Wikipedia page ID |
|   ↳ `html` | string | Full HTML content of the page |
|   ↳ `revision` | number | Page revision number |
|   ↳ `tid` | string | Transaction ID \(ETag\) |
|   ↳ `timestamp` | string | Last modified timestamp |
|   ↳ `content_model` | string | Content model \(wikitext\) |
|   ↳ `content_format` | string | Content format \(text/html\) |

### `wikipedia_random`

Get a random Wikipedia page.

#### Input

| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
| --------- | ---- | -------- | ----------- |

#### Output

| Parameter | Type | Description |
| --------- | ---- | ----------- |
| `randomPage` | object | Random Wikipedia page data |
|   ↳ `type` | string | Page type |
|   ↳ `title` | string | Page title |
|   ↳ `displaytitle` | string | Display title |
|   ↳ `description` | string | Page description |
|   ↳ `extract` | string | Page extract/summary |
|   ↳ `thumbnail` | object | Thumbnail image data |
|     ↳ `source` | string | Thumbnail image URL |
|     ↳ `width` | number | Thumbnail width in pixels |
|     ↳ `height` | number | Thumbnail height in pixels |
|   ↳ `content_urls` | object | URLs to access the page |
|     ↳ `desktop` | object | Desktop URL |
|       ↳ `page` | string | Page URL |
|     ↳ `mobile` | object | Mobile URL |
|       ↳ `page` | string | Page URL |
|   ↳ `lang` | string | Language code |
|   ↳ `timestamp` | string | Timestamp |
|   ↳ `pageid` | number | Page ID |


