acdh-wikidata-pyutils 0.1

Python package to fetch data from Wikidata

acdh-wikidata-pyutils

Utitliy package to fetch data from Wikidata

development

• create virtual env python -m venv venv and activate it source venv/bin/activate
• install dev-dependencies pip install -r requirements_dev.txt
• install acdh-wikidata-pyutils locally pip install -e .
• run tests coverage run -m pytest

usage

from acdh_wikidata_pyutils import WikiDataPerson

item = WikiDataPerson("https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44331")
person = item.get_apis_person()
print(person)
# {'name': 'Schnitzler', 'first_name': 'Arthur', 'start_date_written': '1862-05-15', 'end_date_written': '1931-10-21', 'gender': 'male'}