Hello all,

Le mar. 4 juin 2019 à 15:46, Marielle Volz <[email protected]> a
écrit :

> Yes, the api is at
> https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=search&srsearch=Bush
>
> There's a sandbox where you can play with the various options:
>
> https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ApiSandbox#action=query&format=json&list=search&srsearch=Bush
>


Can anyone point me to the relevant code that supports the search feature?
Or explain to me how it is done?


Thanks in advance!


On Tue, Jun 4, 2019 at 2:22 PM Tim Finin <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> What's the best way to search Wikidata for items whose name or alias
>> matches a string?  The search available via pywikibot seems to only find a
>> match if the search string is a prefix of an item's name or alias, so
>> searching for "Bush" does not return any of the the George Bush items.  I
>> don't want to use a SPARQL query with a regex, since I expect that to be
>> slow.
>>
>> The search box on the Wikidata pages is closer to what I want.  Is there
>> a good way to call this via an API?
>>
>> Ideally, I'd like to be able to specify a language and also a set of
>> types, but I can do that once I've identified candidates based on a simple
>> match with a query string.
>>
>
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