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Retrieve item from the Wikidata API and returns it as a list

Source: R/tw_get_item.R
tw_get_item.Rd

Retrieve item from the Wikidata API and returns it as a list

Usage

tw_get_item(id, user_agent = tidywikidatar::tw_get_user_agent(), retry = 10)

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().

user_agent

Defaults to NULL. If not given, implicitly defaults to current package name (tidywikidatar) and version.

retry

Defaults to 10. Maximum number of times to retry if the API throws an error, such as "too many requests". Each time, it will wait as much time as requested by the API. Notice that this can be a long time, e.g. 30 minutes. Set to FALSE if you prefer the API to throw an error immediately. Consider adjusting the wait parameter, or customising the user_agent if relevant.

Value

A list, with as many elements as the unique given id.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
  item_l <- tw_get_item(id = "Q180099")

  tidywikidatar:::tw_extract_single(w = item_l)
} # }