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

🛠 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"
        ]
      }
    }
  }
}