> **For coding agents and LLMs:** This is one page from the Social Fetch docs (markdown export). For curated orientation and workflow guidance, start with [`/llms.txt`](https://www.socialfetch.dev/llms.txt); for agent onboarding and crawl rules, use [`/agents.txt`](https://www.socialfetch.dev/agents.txt); for the full endpoint list with links to pages like this one, use [`/llms-endpoints.txt`](https://www.socialfetch.dev/llms-endpoints.txt); for one platform's parameters and curls, use [`/llms-{platform}.txt`](https://www.socialfetch.dev/llms-tiktok.txt); use [`/llms.json`](https://www.socialfetch.dev/llms.json) when you need structured JSON for tool registration.

## This page

- **On-site (HTML):** <https://www.socialfetch.dev/docs/api/v1/wikipedia/pages/title/content/get>
- **Markdown (.mdx) URL:** <https://www.socialfetch.dev/docs/api/v1/wikipedia/pages/title/content/get.mdx>

## API base URL and authentication

- **API origin (from OpenAPI `servers`):** `https://api.socialfetch.dev`
- **Authentication:** send `x-api-key: sfk_...` on `/v1/**` and `/v2/**` routes unless the operation is explicitly anonymous (check OpenAPI `security`, the [API reference hub](https://www.socialfetch.dev/docs/api.mdx), [`/llms.txt`](https://www.socialfetch.dev/llms.txt), or [`/llms.json`](https://www.socialfetch.dev/llms.json) for each route).
- **OpenAPI JSON:** <https://www.socialfetch.dev/openapi.json>

## Recommended docs entrypoints (this site)

- [Documentation overview](https://www.socialfetch.dev/docs.mdx) — top-level orientation (markdown).
- [Quickstart](https://www.socialfetch.dev/docs/quickstart.mdx) — authenticate with `x-api-key`, validate auth with `whoami`, and understand the JSON envelope.
- [SDK](https://www.socialfetch.dev/docs/sdk.mdx) — official TypeScript SDK guide, including `SocialFetchClient`, `Result`, and `unwrap()`.
- [Capability matrix](https://www.socialfetch.dev/docs/capability-matrix.mdx) — every operation with identifiers, pagination, outcomes, media download, credits, and its SDK method. Generated from OpenAPI, so use it for route selection instead of scanning individual pages.
- [Recipes](https://www.socialfetch.dev/docs/recipes.mdx) — copyable workflows (brand monitoring, transcripts, Ad Library, creator scoring, Reddit research) with credit callouts and SDK examples.
- [Integrations](https://www.socialfetch.dev/docs/integrations.mdx) — MCP for AI clients, n8n verified node, Apify Store Actors, Make custom app, SDK, and REST API connection paths.
- [MCP product page](https://www.socialfetch.dev/mcp) — hosted MCP overview, OAuth, Skills install.
- [MCP integration](https://www.socialfetch.dev/docs/integrations/mcp.mdx) — hosted `/mcp` server, OAuth, Cursor/VS Code/Claude install snippets, 910 endpoint tools, plus docs_search/docs_read for implementation help.
- [n8n integration](https://www.socialfetch.dev/docs/integrations/n8n.mdx) — install `n8n-nodes-socialfetch`, credentials, and workflow examples.
- [Apify integration](https://www.socialfetch.dev/docs/integrations/apify.mdx) — Store Actors under @social-fetch, PPE billing, dataset export, and quick start.
- [Make integration](https://www.socialfetch.dev/docs/integrations/make.mdx) — custom app modules for Make scenarios, API key credentials, and module catalog.
- [`/llms-endpoints.txt`](https://www.socialfetch.dev/llms-endpoints.txt) — every documented operation with a direct link to that route's agent-readable markdown page (prefer this over parsing OpenAPI).
- [`/llms-{platform}.txt`](https://www.socialfetch.dev/llms-tiktok.txt) — per-platform endpoint files generated from OpenAPI (parameters, credits, curls).
- [`/agents.txt`](https://www.socialfetch.dev/agents.txt) — agent crawl/onboarding file with capabilities, auth rules, and allowlist.
- [`/llms.json`](https://www.socialfetch.dev/llms.json) — structured machine-readable operation inventory with parameter names, pagination, outcomes, credits, and SDK mapping.
- [API reference hub](https://www.socialfetch.dev/docs/api.mdx) — human-friendly index of operations with links into generated pages.
- [Errors](https://www.socialfetch.dev/docs/errors.mdx) — shared error envelope and HTTP status guidance.
- [Credits](https://www.socialfetch.dev/docs/credits.mdx) — metering, `402`, and planning batch jobs.
- Outcome semantics such as `found`, `not_found`, and `private` are documented in [Errors](https://www.socialfetch.dev/docs/errors.mdx) and on operation pages when present in the OpenAPI contract.

## Markdown docs convention

- Every docs page has a markdown twin: append **`.mdx`** to the docs pathname (for example `/docs/quickstart` → `/docs/quickstart.mdx`).
- Agents that send `Accept: text/markdown` on `/docs/**` HTML URLs may receive markdown directly (same URL, `Vary: Accept`).
- Published blog posts use the same convention: `/blog/{slug}` → `/blog/{slug}.mdx`, or `Accept: text/markdown` on the HTML URL (`Vary: Accept`).

---
# Get Wikipedia page content (https://www.socialfetch.dev/docs/api/v1/wikipedia/pages/title/content/get)

## Summary

Get a Wikipedia page's plain-text lead, rendered HTML or wikitext, with sections, links, categories, templates and media.

**Tags:** `Wikipedia`

## HTTP

- **Method:** GET
- **Path:** `/v1/wikipedia/pages/{title}/content`
- **Base URL:** `https://api.socialfetch.dev`

## Capability summary

- **SDK mapping:** `client.wikipedia.getPageContent({ title: "Albert Einstein", format: "text" })`
- **Accepted identifiers:** `title` (path)
- **Pagination:** none
- **Business outcome field:** `data.lookupStatus` with values `found`, `not_found`

## Credits

- **Base:** 1 credit per successful lookup.
- **Maximum on success (200):** 1 credit.
- **Failed requests (`lookup_failed`, `503`):** not charged.
- **Authoritative field:** `meta.creditsCharged`.

## Authentication

- **`x-api-key`**: API key (`sfk_...`)

## Parameters

### `title` (path)

- **Required:** yes
- **Constraints:** type `string`
- **Description:** Page title on the chosen edition, e.g. `Albert Einstein`, `C++` or `Talk:Barack Obama`. URL-encode it in the path.

### `lang` (query)

- **Required:** no
- **Constraints:** type `string`; default: `en`
- **Description:** Wikimedia edition code, e.g. `en`, `de`, `ja`, `simple` or `zh-min-nan`. Default: `en`.

### `format` (query)

- **Required:** no
- **Constraints:** type `string`; enum: text, html, wikitext; default: `text`
- **Description:** `text` for the plain-text lead (no lists or tables), `html` for the rendered article, `wikitext` for the source. Default: `text`.

### `section` (query)

- **Required:** no
- **Constraints:** type `integer`; minimum: 0; maximum: 9999
- **Description:** HTML section number to return instead of the whole article.

## Responses (status codes)

- **200**: Get Wikipedia page content
- **400**: Invalid request
- **401**: Missing or invalid API key
- **402**: Insufficient credits
- **500**: Unexpected or billing error
- **502**: Lookup could not be completed.
- **503**: Service temporarily unavailable; safe to retry with backoff.

## Response body (200)

Get Wikipedia page content

### Field outline

- **data** (required) — type `object`. Endpoint-specific response payload.
  - **lookupStatus** (required) — type `string`; enum: found, not_found. Whether the entity, page or data set exists. A missing entity is `not_found`; an existing entity with no rows is `found` with `empty: true`.
  - **lang** (required) — type `string`. Edition code.
  - **title** (required) — type `string`. Title.
  - **format** (required) — type `string`; enum: text, html, wikitext. Format returned.
  - **section** (required) — type `integer`; nullable. Section number, when asked.
  - **pageId** (required) — type `integer`; nullable. Page id.
  - **revisionId** (required) — type `integer`; nullable. Revision id.
  - **displayTitle** (required) — type `string`; nullable. Title with display markup.
  - **content** (required) — type `object`. The content in the requested form; the other fields are null.
    - **text** (required) — type `string`; nullable. Plain text, for `format=text`.
    - **html** (required) — type `string`; nullable. HTML, for `format=html`.
    - **wikitext** (required) — type `string`; nullable. Wikitext, for `format=wikitext`.
  - **license** (required) — type `object`; nullable. Content licence. Text and HTML use the edition's fixed CC BY-SA 4.0 notice; wikitext uses the notice the core REST answer carries.
    - **name** (required) — type `string`; nullable. Licence name.
    - **url** (required) — type `string`; nullable. Licence URL.
  - **latest** (required) — type `object`; nullable. Revision the content belongs to.
    - **id** (required) — type `integer`; nullable. Revision id.
    - **timestamp** (required) — type `string`; nullable. When it was saved.
  - **redirectTarget** (required) — type `string`; nullable. Resolved title of the redirect, on `format=wikitext`.
  - **redirectedFrom** (optional) — type `string`; default: `null`; nullable. The title asked for when it redirected to the returned page.
  - **sections** (required) — type `array`; nullable. Section headings of the rendered page.
    - _items:_
      - **tocLevel** (required) — type `integer`; nullable. Depth in the table of contents.
      - **level** (required) — type `string`; nullable. Heading level.
      - **line** (required) — type `string`; nullable. Heading text.
      - **number** (required) — type `string`; nullable. Section number.
      - **index** (required) — type `string`; nullable. Section index.
      - **fromTitle** (required) — type `string`; nullable. Title the section belongs to.
      - **byteOffset** (required) — type `integer`; nullable. Offset in the wikitext.
      - **anchor** (required) — type `string`; nullable. Anchor.
      - **linkAnchor** (required) — type `string`; nullable. Link anchor.
  - **categories** (required) — type `array`; nullable. Categories of the rendered page.
    - _items:_
      - **category** (required) — type `string`. Category name without the namespace.
      - **sortKey** (required) — type `string`; nullable. Sort key.
      - **hidden** (required) — type `boolean`; nullable. Whether the category is hidden.
  - **languageLinks** (required) — type `array`; nullable. Other editions of the rendered page.
    - _items:_
      - **lang** (required) — type `string`. Edition code.
      - **url** (required) — type `string`; nullable. URL in that edition.
      - **languageName** (required) — type `string`; nullable. Language name.
      - **autonym** (required) — type `string`; nullable. Language name in itself.
      - **title** (required) — type `string`; nullable. Title.
  - **templates** (required) — type `array`; nullable. Templates, when the answer carries them.
    - _items:_
      - **ns** (required) — type `integer`; nullable. Namespace id.
      - **title** (required) — type `string`; nullable. Linked title.
      - **exists** (required) — type `boolean`; nullable. Whether the target page exists.
      - **url** (required) — type `string`; nullable. External URL.
      - **prefix** (required) — type `string`; nullable. Interwiki prefix.
      - **sortKeyPrefix** (required) — type `string`; nullable. Human-readable category sort key.
      - **timestamp** (required) — type `string`; nullable. When the page joined the category.
      - **hidden** (required) — type `boolean`; nullable. Whether the category is hidden.
  - **images** (required) — type `array`; nullable. Image file names, when carried.
    - _items:_
      - type `string`
  - **externalLinks** (required) — type `array`; nullable. External URLs, when the answer carries them.
    - _items:_
      - type `string`
  - **interwikiLinks** (required) — type `array`; nullable. Interwiki links, when the answer carries them.
    - _items:_
      - **ns** (required) — type `integer`; nullable. Namespace id.
      - **title** (required) — type `string`; nullable. Linked title.
      - **exists** (required) — type `boolean`; nullable. Whether the target page exists.
      - **url** (required) — type `string`; nullable. External URL.
      - **prefix** (required) — type `string`; nullable. Interwiki prefix.
      - **sortKeyPrefix** (required) — type `string`; nullable. Human-readable category sort key.
      - **timestamp** (required) — type `string`; nullable. When the page joined the category.
      - **hidden** (required) — type `boolean`; nullable. Whether the category is hidden.
  - **links** (required) — type `array`; nullable. Internal links, when the answer carries them.
    - _items:_
      - **ns** (required) — type `integer`; nullable. Namespace id.
      - **title** (required) — type `string`; nullable. Linked title.
      - **exists** (required) — type `boolean`; nullable. Whether the target page exists.
      - **url** (required) — type `string`; nullable. External URL.
      - **prefix** (required) — type `string`; nullable. Interwiki prefix.
      - **sortKeyPrefix** (required) — type `string`; nullable. Human-readable category sort key.
      - **timestamp** (required) — type `string`; nullable. When the page joined the category.
      - **hidden** (required) — type `boolean`; nullable. Whether the category is hidden.
  - **properties** (required) — type `object`; nullable. Page properties the rendered page reports.
  - **parseWarnings** (required) — type `array`; nullable. Warnings the rendered page reports.
    - _items:_
      - type `string`
  - **redirects** (required) — type `array`; nullable. Redirects followed while rendering.
    - _items:_
      - type `object`
  - **empty** (required) — type `boolean`. Whether the answer is a valid empty result rather than missing.
- **meta** (required) — type `object`. Metadata describing the request and billing outcome.
  - **requestId** (required) — type `string`; minLength: 1. Unique request identifier for tracing this API call.
  - **creditsCharged** (required) — type `integer`; minimum: 0. Credits charged for this request.
  - **version** (required) — type `string`; enum: v1. Public API version that served the response.

### Example JSON (found)

```json
{
  "data": {
    "lookupStatus": "found",
    "lang": "en",
    "title": "Albert Einstein",
    "format": "text",
    "section": null,
    "pageId": 736,
    "revisionId": 1383620073,
    "displayTitle": "Albert Einstein",
    "content": {
      "text": "Albert Einstein (14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist best known for developing the theory of relativity. Einstein also made important contributions to quantum theory. His mass–energy equivalence formula E = mc2, which arises from special relativity, has been called \"the world's most …",
      "html": null,
      "wikitext": null
    },
    "license": {
      "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0",
      "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en"
    },
    "latest": {
      "id": 1383620073,
      "timestamp": "2026-11-03T19:04:40Z"
    },
    "redirectTarget": null,
    "redirectedFrom": null,
    "sections": null,
    "categories": null,
    "languageLinks": null,
    "templates": null,
    "images": null,
    "externalLinks": null,
    "interwikiLinks": null,
    "links": null,
    "properties": null,
    "parseWarnings": null,
    "redirects": null,
    "empty": false
  },
  "meta": {
    "requestId": "req_fb22ef2c-a66e-494f-a9d0-ee30308e54b2",
    "creditsCharged": 1,
    "version": "v1"
  }
}
```

### Machine-readable error codes

When an error JSON body is returned, it may include one of these `error.code` values (derived from the OpenAPI schemas for this operation; additional codes may exist at runtime):

- `bad_request`

## Error handling & retries

Interpret HTTP status codes using the descriptions below. Do not assume a JSON body unless the OpenAPI schema defines one for that status.

- **400**: Invalid request **Retry:** Fix the request; retrying the same invalid payload will not help.
- **401**: Missing or invalid API key **Retry:** Fix the API key first; retrying without changes will not help.
- **402**: Insufficient credits **Retry:** Do not retry without resolving billing/credits (retrying the same request will not help).
- **500**: Unexpected or billing error
- **502**: Lookup could not be completed. **Retry:** May be transient; a few retries with backoff are reasonable.
- **503**: Service temporarily unavailable; safe to retry with backoff. **Retry:** Usually safe to retry with exponential backoff and jitter.

### Suggested client defaults

- Send the API key using the `x-api-key` header on every request.
- On `503` (and sometimes `502`), retry with backoff; cap retries and surface a clear error to the user.
- On `402`, surface an actionable billing message rather than blind retries.

## Examples

### TypeScript SDK

```typescript
import { SocialFetchClient } from "@socialfetch/sdk";

const client = new SocialFetchClient({
  apiKey: process.env.SOCIALFETCH_API_KEY!,
});

const result = await client.wikipedia.getPageContent({
  title: "Albert Einstein",
  format: "text",
});

if (!result.ok) {
  console.error(result.error);
} else {
  console.log(result.value.data);
}
```

### Node.js

```javascript
const response = await fetch(
  "https://api.socialfetch.dev/v1/wikipedia/pages/Albert%20Einstein/content?format=text",
  {
    headers: {
      "x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY"
    }
  }
);

const data = await response.json();
console.log(data);
```

### cURL

```bash
curl "https://api.socialfetch.dev/v1/wikipedia/pages/Albert%20Einstein/content?format=text" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"
```

### Python

```python
import requests

response = requests.get(
    "https://api.socialfetch.dev/v1/wikipedia/pages/Albert%20Einstein/content?format=text",
    headers={"x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY"},
)
data = response.json()
print(data)
```