acdh-wikidata-pyutils

acdh-wikidata-pyutils

Utility package to fetch data from Wikidata

install

pip install acdh-wikidata-pyutils

usage

from acdh_wikidata_pyutils import WikiDataPerson

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

from acdh_wikidata_pyutils import WikiDataPlace

item = WikiDataPlace("https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41329")
place = item.get_apis_entity()
print(place)
>>> {'name': 'Linz', 'lat': 48.30583333333333, 'long': 14.286388888888888}

from acdh_wikidata_pyutils import fetch_image 
wiki_id = "Q2390830"
item = fetch_image(wiki_id)
print(item)
>>> "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Theo._Komisarjevsky_LCCN2014715267.jpg/250px-Theo._Komisarjevsky_LCCN2014715267.jpg"