Wikifeed

live Reference

Wikipedia's featured articles, most-read pages, picture of the day, and on-this-day history via the Wikimedia Feed API

4 tools
0ms auth
free tier 50 calls/day

Tools

on_this_day required: month, day

Get historical events, births, deaths, and holidays that occurred on a given month and day across all years.

Parameters
Name Type Description
month req string Two-digit month number (e.g., "01" for January, "12" for December)
day req string Two-digit day number (e.g., "01", "15", "31")
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featured_article required: year, month, day

Get Wikipedia's featured article for a specific date.

Parameters
Name Type Description
year req string Four-digit year (e.g., "2024")
month req string Two-digit month number (e.g., "01", "12")
day req string Two-digit day number (e.g., "01", "15")
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most_read required: year, month, day

Get the most-read Wikipedia articles for a specific date.

Parameters
Name Type Description
year req string Four-digit year (e.g., "2024")
month req string Two-digit month number (e.g., "01", "12")
day req string Two-digit day number (e.g., "01", "15")
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picture_of_day required: year, month, day

Get Wikipedia's picture of the day for a specific date, including title, description, and image URL.

Parameters
Name Type Description
year req string Four-digit year (e.g., "2024")
month req string Two-digit month number (e.g., "01", "12")
day req string Two-digit day number (e.g., "01", "15")
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Test with curl

The gateway speaks JSON-RPC 2.0 over HTTP POST. You can test any pack directly from the terminal.

List available tools
bash 
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/wikifeed/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list"}'
Call a tool
bash 
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/wikifeed/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"on_this_day","arguments":{"month": "example", "day": "example"}}}'

Use with the SDK

Install @pipeworx/sdk to call tools from any TypeScript/Node project.

TypeScript 
import { Pipeworx } from '@pipeworx/sdk';
const px = new Pipeworx();
const result = await px.call("on_this_day", {"month":"example","day":"example"});
ask_pipeworx 
// Or ask in plain English:
const answer = await px.ask("wikipedia's featured articles, most-read pages, picture of the day, and on-this-day history via the wikimedia feed api");