Hello all,
Le mar. 4 juin 2019 à 15:46, Marielle Volz marielle.volz@gmail.com a écrit :
Yes, the api is at https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=search&srsearch...
There's a sandbox where you can play with the various options:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ApiSandbox#action=query&format=jso...
Can anyone point me to the relevant code that supports the search feature? Or explain to me how it is done?
Thanks in advance!
On Tue, Jun 4, 2019 at 2:22 PM Tim Finin finin@umbc.edu wrote:
What's the best way to search Wikidata for items whose name or alias matches a string? The search available via pywikibot seems to only find a match if the search string is a prefix of an item's name or alias, so searching for "Bush" does not return any of the the George Bush items. I don't want to use a SPARQL query with a regex, since I expect that to be slow.
The search box on the Wikidata pages is closer to what I want. Is there a good way to call this via an API?
Ideally, I'd like to be able to specify a language and also a set of types, but I can do that once I've identified candidates based on a simple match with a query string.