Hi Lucas,

Thanks for explaining the differences in the results of searches using Wikibase API
and MediaWiki API (reference thread below).

I have been using the Wikidata-Toolkit to query Wikidata using the wbsearchentities implementation.
Now, the documentation about MediaWiki Action API  seems to suggest that it is a web-service for accessing (wiki like) databases .
I am currently interested in programatically querying Wikidata without having to host a complete service and wondering if there are 
easy to use MediaWiki API implementation (in Java) that I can use to query Wikidata to fetch results corresponding to: 

"action=query&generator=search&gsrsearch=SEARCHTERM&gsrnamespace=0|120"

In other words, I want to know if there are libraries to achieve this progamatically using Java.

Thanks and regards
Raveesh
> On 12/1/18 2:38 AM, Lucas Werkmeister wrote:
>> wbsearchentities is a Wikibase-specific API; the normal MediaWiki search
>> function uses a different search configuration, which you can query in
>> the API via:
>>
>> action=query&generator=search&gsrsearch=SEARCHTERM&gsrnamespace=0|120
>>
>> For example:
>>
>> https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=query&generator=search&gsrsearch=maruti&gsrnamespace=0|120&formatversion=2
>>
>> Note that you need to sort the result list by the 'index' of each result
>> (I’m not sure why the API doesn’t do that for you).
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Lucas
>>
>> On 30.11.18 18:12, Raveesh Meena wrote:
>>> Hi, 
>>>
>>> The search results obtained by these two approaches are ordered
>>> differently:
>>>
>>> method1: using the wikidata API
>>> <https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=help&modules=main> 
>>> https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=wbsearchentities&search=Maruti&language=en
>>>
>>> method2: search on wikidata Page
>>> <https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=&search=&title=Special%3ASearch&go=Go>
>>> https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=&search=Maruti&title=Special%3ASearch&go=Go
>>>
>>> Intrestingly, in method2, the search suggestion drop-down list has the
>>> same order as that of method1 (see screenshot).
>>>
>>> q1. How can I obtain results in the same order as that of method2
>>> using the wikidata API (i.e., method 1).
>>>
>>> q2. Which of the two ordering is in general more
>>> "relevant/accurate/better"
>>>
>>> Thanks for any help/hints.
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Raveesh
>>>