Thanks, Dmitry. That works like a charm.
Adrian Tineo
Am 10/08/16 um 22:12 schrieb Dmitry Brant:
"pageprops" is what you seek:
https://en.wikipedia.org//w/api.php?action=query&format=json&prop=p…
On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 4:06 PM, Adrian Tineo <adrian(a)adriantineo.com
<mailto:adrian@adriantineo.com>> wrote:
Hi all
This is my first post in this list. I'm not clear if this is the
best place for me to ask this question, so feel free to recommend
some other contact point.
Context:
I am trying to find out via API what is the Wikidata item from a
Wikipedia page. This is visible in the Tools side bar in the
Wikipedia page but I can't figure out how to get this information
from the API.
Question:
How can I get via API the Wikidata item matching a given Wikipedia
article?
Example:
Say that the starting point is Albert Einstein's page in the
English Wikipedia (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein>). I can get the
page content via API like so:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&format=json&titles=…
<https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&format=json&titles=Albert>
Einstein&prop=revisions&rvprop=content
I can get plenty of other info by using some other params to the
query action. Some I have tried include:
prop:extlinks, prop:info, meta:filerepoinfo, etc.
None of these contain the Wikidata item matching the article
though. I couldn't find out anything about it in the MediaWiki API
help.
As of now, the best I can do is:
1. Query Wikidata with the page title like so:
https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?format=json&action=wbsearchentities&…
<https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?format=json&action=wbsearchentities&search=Albert>
Einstein&language=en
2. Browse through the output for the desired Albert Einstein entry
among:
* Q937, Albert Einstein, German-American physicist and founder
of the theory of relativity
* Q13426745, Albert Einstein, Studio album by Prodigy and The
Alchemist
* Q15990626, Albert Einstein, Wikimedia disambiguation page
* 3 more entries
This adds a complication, as I need the intelligence to tell which
is the Wikidata item I was looking for, whereas in the Wikipedia
page in the browser I can access the item (Q937) directly.
Any help much appreciated.
Regards,
Adrian Tineo
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