Collaboratively edited knowledge base operated by the Wikimedia Foundation
Wikidata is a collaboratively edited knowledge base operated by the Wikimedia Foundation, requiring a user-agent for API requests.
import requests
url = "https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php"
params = {
"action": "wbgetentities",
"ids": "Q42", # Example: Douglas Adams
"format": "json"
}
headers = {
"User-Agent": "MyWikidataBot/1.0 (https://example.com; myemail@example.com)"
}
response = requests.get(url, params=params, headers=headers)
print(response.json())Last 50 checks (10 min intervals)