Wikipedia

Access Wikipedia via MCP — search articles, get summaries, random facts, and dinosaur-specific facts. Great for research, hooks, and general knowledge lookups.

Wikipedia MCP

Access Wikipedia via Model Context Protocol (MCP). No API key required.

Tools

Tool	Description
search	Search Wikipedia for articles
summary	Get article summary + image by title
random	Random Wikipedia article
did_you_know	Random "Did You Know" fact
dino_fact	Dinosaur/prehistory fact (specific species or random)

Installation (Universal)

1. Install dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt

(Requires Python 3.10+ and requests>=2.28.0)

2. Find your install path

After clawhub install wikipedia, the skill lands in your skills directory. The MCP server is at:

<install-dir>/src/server.py

For example, if you installed into ~/.openclaw/workspace/skills/:

# Confirm the path
ls ~/.openclaw/workspace/skills/wikipedia/src/server.py

3. Add to mcporter

Add this to your mcporter config (e.g. ~/.openclaw/workspace/config/mcporter.json):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "wikipedia": {
      "command": "python3",
      "args": ["<path-to>/src/server.py"]
    }
  }
}

Replace <path-to> with the actual install location from step 2.

4. Test

mcporter call wikipedia search --args '{"query": "velociraptor", "limit": 5}'

Usage Examples

mcporter call wikipedia search --args '{"query": "velociraptor", "limit": 5}'
mcporter call wikipedia summary --args '{"title": "Tyrannosaurus"}'
mcporter call wikipedia dino_fact --args '{"species": "Spinosaurus"}'
mcporter call wikipedia dino_fact
mcporter call wikipedia did_you_know

Data Source

Uses Wikipedia's free public REST API — no API key required.

• Search: MediaWiki Action API
• Summary: REST API v1 (/page/summary/{title})
• Random: REST API v1 (/page/random/summary)

Notes

• User-Agent is set to wikipedia-mcp/1.0 for Wikipedia API etiquette
• All responses include links back to the source article on en.wikipedia.org
• dino_fact falls back to a random species if the requested one isn't found