Hi Stas,

Thanks for the suggestion on the SPARQL endpoint. I have tested it a bit and I must say I am excited on the potential it has.
I tend to run SPARQL queries directly from my desktop, through an IDE (i.e. textmate) However, I haven't managed to connect to the wdqs this way. It seems that I need to push the execute button in a browser to get the actual results.

Is it possible to get the SPARQL results in an API manner?

Regards

On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 9:20 PM, Stas Malyshev <smalyshev@wikimedia.org> wrote:

Hi!

> How often is the WDQ api really being updated? Is it possible to query
> wikidata live, with WDQ and if not, are there alternatives that would
> allow this?

We currently have SPARQL query service in beta[1], which is updated
constantly from Wikidata. Note that since it's beta it is not stable yet
both operationally and data-model-wise, so please be aware of this, also
it has timeout limits that won't allow you for now to run queries that
are too complex. But if you want to check it out and see if that fits
your use case you are most welcome.

[1] http://wdqs-beta.wmflabs.org/
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Stas Malyshev
smalyshev@wikimedia.org

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