Wikipedia

Wikipedia MCP

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

Tools

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