wikidataloader 0.0.1

Pythonic wrapper around the Wikidata SPARQL API for quick creation of datasets from Wikidata

wikidataloader

Easy pythonic wrapper around the Wikidata SPARQL API for quick creation of datasets from Wikidata.

Only supports simple, non-recursive queries - for complex queries please directly use the SPARQL API provided by Wikidata.

It does not support complex operators (ordering, datetime conversion, string/numeric filtering etc.), because these can be substituted by preprocessing the dataset in Python after retrieval.

Usage

Look up the URIs for properties (e.g. P31) and objects (e.g. Q5) on Wikidata's search engine.

from wikidataloader import WikidataQuery

results = WikidataQuery.search(
    filters={"P31": "Q5", "P27": "Q183", "P106": "Q156839"}, # {is_instance: human, country_of_origin: Germany, profession: cook}
    select=[("P21", "Gender"), ("P19", "City of Birth")],
    limit=30,
	default_language="en"
)

results.to_pandas()

For more examples, see example.ipynb

Install

Install using pip:

pip install wikidataloader

Limitations

• Does not support recursive queries
• Does not support labels for Lexeme queries