get_item function

Retrieve specific Wikidata items or properties

get_item and get_property allow you to retrieve the data associated with individual Wikidata items and properties, respectively. As with other WikidataR code, custom print methods are available; use str

to manipulate and see the underlying structure of the data.

get_item(id, ...)

get_property(id, ...)

Arguments

• id: the ID number(s) of the item or property you're looking for. This can be in various formats; either a numeric value ("200"), the full name ("Q200") or even with an included namespace ("Property:P10") - the function will format it appropriately. This function is vectorised and will happily accept multiple IDs.
• \dots: further arguments to pass to httr's GET.

Examples

#Retrieve a specific item
adams_metadata <- get_item("42")

#Retrieve a specific property
object_is_child <- get_property("P40")

See Also

get_random for selecting a random item or property, or find_item for using search functionality to pull out item or property IDs where the descriptions or aliases match a particular search term.