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Shoussi Elbril
Shoussi Elbril

Reputation: 271

How to get Wikidata ID for an Wikipedia article by API?

How to obtain Wikidata ID from English Wikipedia article name, also for redirects? Is there API call?

Example:

Karachi >> Q8660
Karaachi >> Q8660

How to approach changes in assignment? Now Media in Karachi is redirect to Media of Pakistan (Wikidata item Q6805922), but can be own article later.

Upvotes: 26

Views: 11152

Answers (3)

Addshore
Addshore

Reputation: 598

As well as the accepted answer you can also use the Wikidata API directly passing in a site and a title.

The docs are at https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=help&modules=wbgetentities

Get the entity for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karachi:

Upvotes: 4

Vladimir Alexiev
Vladimir Alexiev

Reputation: 2601

I needed to do it in Google Sheets, and was able to do it with a formula like this. It assumes the Wikipedia title is in column B. Copy down to the rows you need

=IMPORTXML(concat("https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=pageprops&ppprop=wikibase_item&redirects=1&format=xml&titles=",B1),"//@wikibase_item")

Another suggestion is to use the dump https://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiki/latest/enwiki-latest-page_props.sql.gz, 230Mb zipped

Upvotes: 3

Termininja
Termininja

Reputation: 7036

Use Wikipedia API to create a query with property pageprops and resolving redirects:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=pageprops&ppprop=wikibase_item&redirects=1&titles=ARTICLE_NAME

In your case, for Wikipedia articles "Media in Karachi" and "Media of Pakistan" you will get the same Wikidata item ID: Q6805922. Same thing for "Karaachi" and "Karachi" → Q8660.

Upvotes: 32

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