If you have the PubChem CID, you can try http://tinyurl.com/goefnxy
(example:CO2)

On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 4:03 PM Herman Bergwerf <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi all! I'm building a web application where users can search for
> protein/compound/etc. names and view their 3D structure using WebGL. I'm
> currently using the PubChem (chemical compounds database) API to provide
> some autocomplete data, but I found that Wikidata also has many chemical
> compound names with PubChem indices! The most important reason to try to
> autocomplete compound names via Wikidata is to allow users to search in
> different languages. PubChem generally only provides English names.
> However, I could not find a suitable API for this. I tried building a
> SPARQL query but that quickly became very slow. I could not find an option
> to limit full-text searches to a specific subclass in the search API
> provided by:
> https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=help&modules=wbsearchentities.
> Do you have any ideas? The only option I see for now is iterating each
> response entity and looking up their subclass of/instance of property.
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