wikibase-sdk
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utils functions to query a Wikibase instance and simplify its results
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wikibase-sdk
JS utils functions to query a Wikibase instance and simplify its results
This package was primarily developed as wikidata-sdk
but has now being generalized to support any Wikibase instance, wikidata.org among others, and was thus renamed wikibase-sdk
.
This project received a Wikimedia Project Grant.
Summary
Changelog
See CHANGELOG.md for version info
Dependencies
NodeJS >= v12.0.0
or not too outdated web browsers (see Object.fromEntries
browser compatibility table)
For older JS runtimes, you can use ES5 bundles from wikibase-sdk <= v8
.
Install
as an ES module
Install via npm to be able to use the import
the module.
npm install wikibase-sdk
Then in your javascript:
import { WBK } from 'wikibase-sdk'
const wbk = WBK({
instance: 'https://my-wikibase-instan.se',
sparqlEndpoint: 'https://query.my-wikibase-instan.se/sparql' // Required to use `sparqlQuery` and `getReverseClaims` functions, optional otherwise
})
The wdk
object of previous versions of this documentation - from the time this module was bound to wikidata.org only - thus corresponds to the following:
import { WBK } from 'wikibase-sdk'
const wdk = WBK({
instance: 'https://www.wikidata.org',
sparqlEndpoint: 'https://query.wikidata.org/sparql'
})
For convenience, and for the sake of retro-compatibility, that same wdk
object can be obtain directly from the wikibase-sdk/wikidata.org
package:
import wdk from 'wikibase-sdk/wikidata.org'
By default wikibase-sdk
assumes that your Wikibase instance has $wgScriptPath
set to /w
, but if that's not the case, you can set it by passing a wgScriptPath
parameter:
import { WBK } from 'wikibase-sdk'
const wbk = WBK({
instance: 'https://my-wikibase-instan.se',
wgScriptPath: '/some_custom_script_path'
})
as an CommonJS module
Importing with CommonJS require
is not supported anymore in version >= v9.0.0
, but can still be done by installing an older version:
npm install wikibase-sdk@v8
See the corresponding version documentation
download pre-bundled files
Pre-bundled files is not supported anymore in version >= v9.0.0
, but can still be done by pre-bundled files from older versions:
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/maxlath/wikibase-sdk/v8.1.1/dist/wikibase-sdk.js
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/maxlath/wikibase-sdk/v8.1.1/dist/wikidata-sdk.js
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/maxlath/wikibase-sdk/v8.1.1/dist/wikibase-sdk.min.js
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/maxlath/wikibase-sdk/v8.1.1/dist/wikidata-sdk.min.js
See the corresponding version documentation
Features
Wikibase API
A set of functions to make read queries to a Wikibase instance API (see Wikidata API documentation). For write operations, see wikibase-edit.
Wikibase Query
There are additional functions for Wikibase instances that have a SPARQL Query Service (such as Wikidata Query for wikidata.org). SPARQL can be a weird thing at first, but the Wikidata team and community really puts lots of efforts to make things easy with a super rich Wikidata Query Help page, an awesome tool to test you queries and visualize the result, and lots of examples!
General helpers
Contributing
Context
This library had for primary purpose to serve the needs of the inventaire project but extending its capabilities to other needs it totally possible: feel welcome to post your suggestions as issues or pull requests!
Design constraints
wikibase-sdk
should stay "small" and dependency-free, so that a web application can include it in its bundle without paying a too high cost for it. A consequence is that the lib generates URLs where other libs would integrate doing the request and parsing it's response. But that actually feels quite right to do this way: simply generating the URLs let's users free to handle requests as they like (with callbacks, promises, async/await, custom request agent, whatever!)- Therefore, it should focus on providing basic, general helper functions most application working with a Wikibase instance would need.
- Write operations should go into wikibase-edit as it involves working with Wikibase credentials/tokens.
- General command-line interface tools should go to wikibase-cli, very specific ones —
wikibase-dump-filter
and alikes — should get their own modules.
See Also
- wikibase-edit: Edit a Wikibase instance from NodeJS
- wikibase-cli: The command-line interface to Wikibase instances
- wikibase-dump-filter: Filter and format a newline-delimited JSON stream of Wikibase entities
- wikidata-taxonomy: Command-line tool to extract taxonomies from Wikidata
- Other Wikidata external tools
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