Search Wikipedia with Seltz

The new Wikipedia scope for the Seltz Search and Answers endpoints is now generally available. Now, requests to these endpoints can specify wikipedia as a scope and receive answers grounded in Wikipedia articles. 

Like our news and people domains, you can use Seltz Search to retrieve readable, full-text results from our wikipedia scope that are ready to use as inputs for an LLM. You can also use Seltz Answers to retrieve responses from an LLM that are grounded in readable citations from Wikipedia.

How it works

You can fine-tune Seltz Search or Answers to use the Wikipedia scope:

• Set the scope for your request to wikipedia.

• Choose whether to return citation URLs or full-text documents.

Using the Wikipedia scope

The following Python snippet makes a request against the Seltz Answer endpoint using the wikipedia domain and prints out the answer along with the URL for each citation.

javascript

from seltz import Seltz

client = Seltz(api_key="YOUR_API_KEY")

response = client.answer("Who won the first-ever World Cup of Soccer?", scope="wikipedia", model="seltz-base")

print(response.answer)

for citation in response.citations:
    print(citation.url)

javascript

from seltz import Seltz

client = Seltz(api_key="YOUR_API_KEY")

response = client.answer("Who won the first-ever World Cup of Soccer?", scope="wikipedia", model="seltz-base")

print(response.answer)

for citation in response.citations:
    print(citation.url)

javascript

from seltz import Seltz

client = Seltz(api_key="YOUR_API_KEY")

response = client.answer("Who won the first-ever World Cup of Soccer?", scope="wikipedia", model="seltz-base")

print(response.answer)

for citation in response.citations:
    print(citation.url)

This request is about general subject knowledge rather than a specific person or a recent news event, so we set the scope to wikipedia. The result includes the URL for each citation:

Uruguay won the first-ever FIFA World Cup in 1930, defeating Argentina 4–2 in the final ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1930_FIFA_World_Cup)).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_FIFA_World_Cup
…

Uruguay won the first-ever FIFA World Cup in 1930, defeating Argentina 4–2 in the final ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1930_FIFA_World_Cup)).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_FIFA_World_Cup
…

Uruguay won the first-ever FIFA World Cup in 1930, defeating Argentina 4–2 in the final ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1930_FIFA_World_Cup)).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_FIFA_World_Cup
…

Use cases for the Wikipedia scope

Customer-facing chat and support bots use the Seltz Wikipedia scope to ground responses in Wikipedia content, which is often more up-to-date than a model's training data, with citations rendered inline so users can verify a claim without leaving the conversation.

Research tools set the scope of their Answer request to wikipedia to ground answers against community-maintained sources for objectivity and depth.

Try Seltz Wikipedia scope today

Seltz Wikipedia scope is available to use. Try it out in our playground or grab an API key at console.seltz.ai/api-keys and read the API reference for this parameter.

Cheers, The Seltz Team