Wikipedia Omi App

Search and read Wikipedia from Omi chat tools. This app is useful for quick background research, definitions, people/place lookups, and random topic discovery without leaving a conversation.

Features

• Search Wikipedia articles by keyword
• Fetch concise article summaries by title
• Discover a random article
• Optional language-code support, defaulting to English
• No OAuth, accounts, or API keys required

Chat Tools

search_articles

Searches Wikipedia using the MediaWiki API.

Parameters:

• query (required): topic, person, place, event, or concept to search
• language (optional): Wikipedia language code, defaults to en
• limit (optional): maximum results, defaults to 5 and caps at 10

get_article_summary

Fetches a concise summary for a Wikipedia page using the REST summary endpoint.

Parameters:

• title (required): exact or near-exact article title
• language (optional): Wikipedia language code, defaults to en

get_random_article

Returns a random article summary.

Parameters:

• language (optional): Wikipedia language code, defaults to en

Local Development

python -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
uvicorn main:app --reload --port 8080

Open:

• http://localhost:8080/health
• http://localhost:8080/.well-known/omi-tools.json

Deployment

Deploy this folder as a standalone FastAPI service. The app does not require environment variables.

Railway can use the included Procfile:

web: uvicorn main:app --host 0.0.0.0 --port $PORT

Notes

Wikimedia asks API clients to send an identifying user agent. This app sets a static Omi integration user agent for all outbound requests.