For a single QID does it make sense to use a HTTP HEAD request against the item page? I assume it would perform well on the client at least.
Cheers // Albin Larsson User:Abbe98
2018-05-15 20:05 GMT+02:00 Daniel Kinzler daniel.kinzler@wikimedia.de:
You can do this via the API, e.g.:
https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=& format=json&titles=Q1|Qx|Q10000003|Q66666666666666&redirects=1
Note that this uses QIDs directy as page titles. This works on wikidata, but may not work on all wikibase instances. It also does not work for PIDs: for these, you have to prefix the Property namespace, as in Property:P31.
A more wikibase way would be to use the wbgetentities API, as in https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=wbgetentities&ids=Q42%7CQ64&am...
However, this API fails when you proivde a non-existing ID, without providing any information about other IDs. So you can quickly check if all the IDs you have are ok, but you may need several calls to get a list of all the bad IDs.
That's rather annoying for your use case. Feel free to file a ticket on phabricator.wikimedia.org. Use the wikidata tag. Tahnks!
-- daniel
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