On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 5:13 PM, Dan Garry <dgarry(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
An often-cited complaint to me about the Wikidata API
is that it's obscure
and hard to use. Simple things, like needing the QID of a page rather than
being able to give it a URL of a page from a client wiki, can make a big
difference to third parties that aren't super familiar with Wikidata.
You can use the URL of a page on a client wiki with action=wbgetentities.
Just specify sites and titles parameters, e.g.
https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=wbgetentities&format=jsonfm&a…
or from Special:ApiSandbox,
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ApiSandbox#action=wbgetentities&f…
I didn't mention this in
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Presenting_Wikidata_knowledge because
it's my understanding that entity IDs are more universal.
Cheers,
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=S Page WMF Tech writer