Re: [Wikidata-l] Autocomplete API for a search field in an external app

Hi Maxime, After some quick reverse engineering of the site with the Chrome Developer Tools, here's the API it is using: http://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php ?callback=[YOUR CALLBACK NAME] &action=wbsearchentities &format=json &language=en &type=item &continue=0 &_=[TIMESTAMP (as a cache buster)] &s

Re: [Wikidata-l] Autocomplete API for a search field in an external app

Small correction: > If you don't need the callback, then the API is as follows (note the > missing cache buster): > > http://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php > &action=wbsearchentities ?action=wbsearchentities (replace '&' with '?', copy and paste oversight, sorry). -- Thomas Steiner, Employee, Google

Re: [Wikidata-l] Autocomplete API for a search field in an external app

Hi, the autocomplete box is using the wbsearchentities api. You could try to copy the jquery.wikibase.entityselector.js from wikibase/lib/resources/jquery.wikibase it looks like it works independently from wikibase. It needs the jqueryui suggester. best regards, Christian 2014-04-28 18:40 GMT

[Wikidata-l] Autocomplete API for a search field in an external app

Hi, I'm looking for a way to reproduce the autocomplete on wikidata search field in an external app (to tag resources with wikidata entities ids), but so far I couldn't find what could allow me to do this in the API doc. In a little experiment , I