Wikipedia REST

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Category: Knowledge · Auth: none · Status today: OK (HTTP 200) · 530 ms

Example request

This is the exact probe the sentinel runs daily — one read-only GET:

curl -s 'https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/summary/Earth'

Example output

Captured 2026-08-16 19:46 UTC (application/json, first 400 chars):

{"type":"standard","title":"Earth","displaytitle":"<span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><span class=\"mw-page-title-main\">Earth</span></span>","namespace":{"id":0,"text":""},"wikibase_item":"Q2","titles":{"canonical":"Earth","normalized":"Earth","display":"<span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><span class=\"mw-page-title-main\">Earth</span></span>"},"pageid":9228,"thumbnail":{"source":"https://upload.wikimedia.

Checked 2026-08-16 19:46 UTC by the Free Tier Sentinel. Machine-readable: api-health.json.