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+package fetch
+
+import (
+	"encoding/json"
+	"fmt"
+)
+
+// Wiki struct holds information retrieved from wikipedia api.
+type Wiki struct {
+	Type         string `json:"type"`
+	Title        string `json:"title"`
+	DisplayTitle string `json:"displaytitle"`
+	PageID       int    `json:"pageid"`
+	Description  string `json:"description"`
+	Language     string `json:"lang"`
+	Extract      string `json:"extract"`
+}
+
+// Wikipedia gets the summary from wikipedia api & returns it with an error (if
+// exists). It takes a string as input which will be the search query
+// sent to wikipedia.
+func Wikipedia(q string) (Wiki, error) {
+	w := Wiki{}
+	api := fmt.Sprintf("https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/summary/%s", q)
+
+	body, err := getRes(api)
+	if err != nil {
+		return w, err
+	}
+
+	// Unmarshal json to w
+	err = json.Unmarshal([]byte(body), &w)
+	if err != nil {
+		err = fmt.Errorf("Unmarshalling Json failed\n%s", err.Error())
+		return w, err
+	}
+
+	return w, err
+}