Yes, the api is at https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=search&srsearch=Bush
There's a sandbox where you can play with the various options: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ApiSandbox#action=query&format=json&list=search&srsearch=Bush On Tue, Jun 4, 2019 at 2:22 PM Tim Finin <fi...@umbc.edu> wrote: > What's the best way to search Wikidata for items whose name or alias > matches a string? The search available via pywikibot seems to only find a > match if the search string is a prefix of an item's name or alias, so > searching for "Bush" does not return any of the the George Bush items. I > don't want to use a SPARQL query with a regex, since I expect that to be > slow. > > The search box on the Wikidata pages is closer to what I want. Is there a > good way to call this via an API? > > Ideally, I'd like to be able to specify a language and also a set of > types, but I can do that once I've identified candidates based on a simple > match with a query string. > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata mailing list > Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata >
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