About Wikipedia Mcp
Wikipedia MCP Server gives AI workflows and developer tools structured access to Wikipedia pages through FastMCP. It supports search and retrieval of page details, links, media, and metadata.
Key features
- 01Search Wikipedia pages
- 02Retrieve summaries, full text, and HTML
- 03Extract links, images, references, and categories
- 04Check page existence and disambiguation
Use cases
- 01Find Wikipedia pages for an AI workflow
- 02Fetch page content and metadata
- 03Resolve ambiguous page titles
MCP support
It is an MCP server built with FastMCP. It exposes Wikipedia search and page retrieval tools to MCP clients.
Configuration
Local server config is the same for every client. Copy it into your client’s MCP config file.
We haven’t collected a package or remote endpoint for this server. Follow the instructions in the project README.
Tools
Local servers expose tools only once running on your machine, and the maintainer has not provided a tool list.
Details
From the project READMEWikipedia MCP Server
This project provides a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that exposes structured access to Wikipedia content. It uses the FastMCP framework to define tools for use in AI workflows, agents, or developer environments like Claude and VS Code.
✅ Features
- 🔍 Search for Wikipedia pages
- 📄 Retrieve page summary, full content, and HTML
- 🔗 Extract links, images, references, and categories
- 📌 Detect disambiguation options
- 📌 Check if a page exists
- ⚡ Built on FastMCP — plug into any agent system
🛠 Installation (Local)
git clone https://github.com/yourname/wikipedia-mcp-server.git
cd wikipedia-mcp-server
python3 -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
python wikipedia_mcp_server.py
🛠 Installation (Docker)
🐳 Docker Setup
Build the container:
docker build -t wikipedia-mcp .
Run the server:
docker run -it --rm wikipedia-mcp
🛠 Usage
🧠 Available Tools
| Tool Name | Description |
|---|---|
| -------------------- | -------------------------------------------------- |
get_summary | Get a summary of a Wikipedia page |
get_content | Get the full content of a Wikipedia page |
get_html | Get the rendered HTML of a Wikipedia page |
get_images | Get a list of image URLs from a Wikipedia page |
get_links | Get a list of internal links from a Wikipedia page |
get_references | Get a list of external references from a Wikipedia page |
get_categories | Get a list of Wikipedia categories |
get_url | Get the direct Wikipedia URL |
get_title | Get the canonical title of a Wikipedia page |
get_page_id | Get the internal Wikipedia page ID |
search_pages | Search for Wikipedia page titles |
check_page_exists | Check if a Wikipedia page exists |
disambiguation_options | Get disambiguation options for ambiguous titles |
| -------------------- | -------------------------------------------------- |
📁 File Structure
.
├── wikipedia_mcp_server.py
├── requirements.txt
├── Dockerfile
├── README.md
💻 VS Code / Claude MCP Integration
Add this to your .vscode/settings.json or Claude configuration to launch this server using MCP:
✅ For Local Python Execution
{
"mcp": {
"servers": {
"wikipedia": {
"type": "stdio",
"command": "python3",
"args": [
"/absolute/path/to/wikipedia_mcp_server.py"
]
}
}
}
}
🐳 For Docker Execution
{
"mcp": {
"servers": {
"wikipedia": {
"type": "stdio",
"command": "docker",
"args": [
"run",
"--rm",
"-i",
"--mount",
"type=bind,src=${workspaceFolder},dst=/workspace",
"wikipedia-mcp"
]
}
}
}
}
Comments
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