Get Wikidata description in given language

Usage

tw_get_description(
  id,
  language = tidywikidatar::tw_get_language(),
  id_df = NULL,
  cache = NULL,
  overwrite_cache = FALSE,
  cache_connection = NULL,
  disconnect_db = TRUE,
  wait = 0
)

Arguments

id: A character vector, must start with Q, e.g. "Q254" for Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Help:Wikimedia_language_codes/lists/all
id_df: Default to NULL. If given, it should be a dataframe typically generated with tw_get_(), and is used instead of calling Wikidata or using SQLite cache. Ignored when id is of length more than one.
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.

Value

A character vector of the same length as the vector of id given, with the Wikidata description in the requested language.

Examples

tw_get_description(
  id = c(
    "Q180099",
    "Q228822"
  ),
  language = "en"
)
#> [1] "American anthropologist (1901—1978)"                   
#> [2] "American anthropologist and folklorologist (1887-1948)"