Random article summary

Code snippets

curl "https://api.oanor.com/wikipedia-api/v1/random" \
  -H "x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."

await fetch("https://api.oanor.com/wikipedia-api/v1/random", {
  headers: { "x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..." }
});

$ch = curl_init("https://api.oanor.com/wikipedia-api/v1/random");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, ["x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."]);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$out = curl_exec($ch);

import requests
requests.get(
    "https://api.oanor.com/wikipedia-api/v1/random",
    headers={"x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..."}
)

Example response

A real response from this endpoint, captured by the latest health check.

{
    "data": {
        "lang": "en",
        "title": "Crassispira hondurasensis",
        "extract": "Crassispira hondurasensis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae.",
        "page_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crassispira_hondurasensis",
        "thumbnail": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/38/Crassispira_hondurasensis_001.jpg",
        "coordinates": null,
        "description": "Species of gastropod",
        "wikibase_item": "Q13500454",
        "original_image": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/38/Crassispira_hondurasensis_001.jpg"
    },
    "meta": {
        "timestamp": "2026-05-29T20:26:40.453Z",
        "request_id": "6316b182-7582-4744-81f5-95315dcd3426"
    },
    "status": "ok",
    "message": "Random article retrieved successfully",
    "success": true
}