Return (most) information from a Wikidata item in a tidy format

Usage

tw_get(
  id,
  language = tidywikidatar::tw_get_language(),
  cache = NULL,
  overwrite_cache = FALSE,
  cache_connection = NULL,
  disconnect_db = TRUE,
  wait = 0,
  id_l = NULL,
  user_agent = tidywikidatar::tw_get_user_agent()
)

Arguments

id: A character vector, must start with Q, e.g. "Q180099" for the anthropologist Margaret Mead. Can also be a data frame of one row, typically generated with tw_search() or a combination of tw_search() and tw_filter_first().
language: Defaults to language set with tw_set_language(); if not set, "en". Use "all_available" to keep all languages. For available language values, see the dedicated Wikimedia page.
cache: Defaults to NULL. If given, it should be given either TRUE or FALSE. Typically set with tw_enable_cache() or tw_disable_cache().
overwrite_cache: Logical, defaults to FALSE. If TRUE, it overwrites the table in the local sqlite database. Useful if the original Wikidata object has been updated.
cache_connection: Defaults to NULL. If NULL, and caching is enabled, tidywikidatar will use a local sqlite database. A custom connection to other databases can be given (see vignette caching for details).
disconnect_db: Defaults to TRUE. If FALSE, leaves the connection to cache open.
wait: In seconds, defaults to 0. Time to wait between queries to Wikidata. If data are cached locally, wait time is not applied. If you are running many queries systematically you may want to add some waiting time between queries.
id_l: Defaults to NULL. If given, must be an object or list such as the one generated with tw_get_item(). If given, and the requested id is actually present in id_l, then no query to Wikidata servers is made.
user_agent: Defaults to NULL. If not given, implicitly defaults to current package name (tidywikidatar) and version.

Value

A data.frame (a tibble) with three columns (id, property, and value).

Examples


if (interactive()) {
  tw_get(
    id = c("Q180099", "Q228822"),
    language = "en"
  )
}

## using `tw_test_items` in examples in order to show output without calling
## on Wikidata servers

tw_get(
  id = c("Q180099", "Q228822"),
  language = "en",
  id_l = tw_test_items
)
#> # A tibble: 373 × 4
#>    id      property value                         rank  
#>    <chr>   <chr>    <chr>                         <chr> 
#>  1 Q180099 label_en Margaret Mead                 NA    
#>  2 Q180099 P21      Q6581072                      normal
#>  3 Q180099 P214     44302511                      normal
#>  4 Q180099 P106     Q4773904                      normal
#>  5 Q180099 P373     Margaret Mead                 normal
#>  6 Q180099 P244     n78093416                     normal
#>  7 Q180099 P227     118579789                     normal
#>  8 Q180099 P18      Margaret Mead (1901-1978).jpg normal
#>  9 Q180099 P509     Q212961                       normal
#> 10 Q180099 P19      Q1345                         normal
#> # ℹ 363 more rows