Yep, just add the "uselang" parameter:

https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=wbsearchentities&language=fr&type=item&search=m&uselang=fr



On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 9:37 AM Yaron Koren <yaro...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> When you call the "wbsearchentities" API, the main label and description
> returned for each item are always hardcoded in English. (Which is strange.)
> Thankfully, it also returns the label for each item in the specified
> language - here is an example:
>
>
> https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=wbsearchentities&language=fr&type=item&search=m
>
> However, it doesn't seem like there's any way to get the *description* of
> each item in the specified language. Is there?
>
> -Yaron
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