Discovering wikis

Fandom hosts over 350,000 wikis. The wikis command finds them by keyword or content category without needing any API key.

Search by keyword

fandom wikis --search "one piece"
fandom wikis --search "dragon ball" -n 10
fandom wikis --search "minecraft" -o jsonl | jq .slug

Results have slug, name, hub, and url. The slug is what you pass to --wiki for every other command.

Browse by hub

Fandom organizes wikis into content hubs.

fandom wikis --hub Gaming
fandom wikis --hub Anime -n 20
fandom wikis --hub Movies -o jsonl | jq .name

Known hubs: Gaming, Movies, TV, Books, Comics, Anime, Music, Lifestyle, Entertainment, Education.

Explore across all hubs

Without a flag, wikis samples the top results from every known hub:

fandom wikis -n 50 -o jsonl > discovered.jsonl

From slug to content

Once you have a slug, use it directly with any other command:

# discover
fandom wikis --search "attack on titan" -o jsonl | jq -r .slug | head -1

# use the slug
fandom --wiki attackontitan info
fandom --wiki attackontitan top -n 10
fandom --wiki attackontitan page "Eren Yeager" -o json | jq .infobox_fields

Pipe into further commands

# Check article counts for all Gaming wikis
fandom wikis --hub Gaming -n 20 -o jsonl \
  | jq -r .slug \
  | while read slug; do
      printf "%s\t" "$slug"
      fandom --wiki "$slug" siteinfo -q -o json | jq .articles
    done

How discovery works

wikis --search hits the Fandom f2 JSON feed first. If that returns results, they are used directly. When the feed returns nothing (or returns an error), the command falls back to scraping *.fandom.com subdomain references from the Fandom search page HTML. wikis --hub scrapes the topic page for the hub (e.g. fandom.com/topics/gaming) and supplements with the f2 feed.

Because the fallback is HTML scraping, results may vary by what Fandom shows on those pages. The --search path is more reliable for targeted queries.