wikidata2df 0.1.0

Utility package for easily turning a SPARQL query into a dataframe

wikidata2df

Utility package for easily turning a SPARQL query into a dataframe

Ever wished you could easily and programatically get data from Wikidata into a nice and analysable Pandas DataFrame? Well, this package solves that problem: With a single function you can turn your SPARQL query into a pandas DataFrame, without having to deal with the messy JSON intermediate.

• Free software: BSD license

• Documentation: https://wikidata2df.readthedocs.io.

Basic Usage

To install:

$ pip install wikidata2df

from wikidata2df import wikidata2df

# A SPARQL query to return all cats in Wikidata!

cat_query = """
#Cats
SELECT ?item ?itemLabel
WHERE
{
?item wdt:P31 wd:Q146.
SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "[AUTO_LANGUAGE],en". }
}
"""

cats_dataframe = wikidata2df(cat_query) # Returns a Pandas DataFrame

Alternatives

• Maybe you want more sofisticated functions? Or a way to edit Wikidata programatically? Awesome!

  • Check out WikidataIntegrator

• Would you rather use R? That’s cool too!

  • Check out WikidataQueryServiceR

Credits

This package was created with Cookiecutter and the audreyr/cookiecutter-pypackage project template.

History

0.1.0 (2020-08-08)

• First release on PyPI.