wikidata-dl 2019.11.20

Download data from Wikidata based on input SPARQL query.

wikidata-dl

Description

wikidata-dl is a command line program for downloading data from Wikidata based on SPARQL queries.

Installation

pip install wikidata_dl

Usage

Download all results returned by the query and store them in the wikidata directory in the current working directory:

wikidata-dl /path/to/my-query.sparql

Show only the result count returned by the query without downloading anything:

wikidata-dl --dry-run /path/to/my-query.sparql

For a complete reference of the command line options run:

wikidata-dl --help

Sample Query

The following query returns IDs for all Wikidata entities that are an instance of (P31) a continent (Q5107).

SELECT ?item WHERE {
    ?item wdt:P31 wd:Q5107.
}

Conventions

• The SPARQL query you pass to the program must return Wikibase IDs.
• The query variable where the entity ID is stored must be called item.