Hi, the autocomplete box is using the wbsearchentities api. You could try to copy the jquery.wikibase.entityselector.js from wikibase/lib/resources/jquery.wikibase it looks like it works independently from wikibase. It needs the jqueryui suggester.
best regards, Christian 2014-04-28 18:40 GMT+02:00 Maxime Lathuilière <[email protected]>: > Hi, > > I'm looking for a way to reproduce the autocomplete on wikidata search > field in an external app (to tag resources with wikidata entities ids), but > so far I couldn't find what could allow me to do this in the API doc. > In a little experiment <https://github.com/maxlath/wikidata-autocomplete>, > I tried to use the API action *wbsearchentities*, but it appear to be > inefficient until I reach the full name... Is there already a way to query > such an "autocomplete API" or any plans to implement one? Or even better, > is there a way to easily re-use the wikidata search field widget? in a > non-PHP project? :D > > Any clue welcome :) > > Best regards, > > Max > > -- > > > Maxime Lathuilière > maxlath.eu > @maxlath > Zorglub27 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Zorglub27> > Contributions<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Zorglub27> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l > >
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