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metalaureate
metalaureate

Reputation: 7732

How to retrieve Wikidata entry from Wikidata search results?

I make a Wikidata search request like this (autocomplete use case):

https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=wbsearchentities&format=json&language=en&type=item&continue=0&search=photog

And the service returns a JSON response thus

{
    id: "Q11633",
    url: "//www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11633",
    description: "art, science and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation",
    label: "photography"
}

But how do I look up to get retrieve the content?

I can only find a title search which does not recognize the Q parameter. It only recognizes titles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&rvprop=content&format=json&titles=Photography

Upvotes: 5

Views: 3682

Answers (1)

leo
leo

Reputation: 8520

You want to use wbgetentities, another method of WikiData's extension to the MediaWiki API (WikiBase). In its most basic form, it looks like this:

api.php?action=wbgetentities&ids=Q11633

You probably want to reduce the size of the reply, by specifying what you what to know about the entity, using the props parameter.

Upvotes: 4

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