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Wikipedia MCP Server

Wikipedia MCP Server

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Wikipedia 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

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🛠 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

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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

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📁 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"
        ]
      }
    }
  }
}

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