Search for Wikidata items or properties that match a search term
find_item and find_property allow you to retrieve a set of Wikidata items or properties where the aliase or descriptions match a particular search term. As with other WikidataR code, custom print methods are available; use str to manipulate and see the underlying structure of the data.
find_item(search_term, language = "en", limit = 10, ...) find_property(search_term, language = "en", limit = 10)
search_term: a term to search for.language: the language to return the labels and descriptions in; this should consist of an ISO language code. Set to "en" by default.limit: the number of results to return; set to 10 by default.\dots: further arguments to pass to httr's GET.#Check for entries relating to Douglas Adams in some way adams_items <- find_item("Douglas Adams") #Check for properties involving the peerage peerage_props <- find_property("peerage")
get_random for selecting a random item or property, or get_item for selecting a specific item or property.