# Read-Write API Client Library for Wikidata

## Documentation for package ‘WikidataR’ version 2.3.3

- DESCRIPTION file.
- Package NEWS.

## Help Pages

WikidataR-package | API client library for Wikidata
as_pid | Convert an input to a property PID
as_qid | Convert an input to a item QID
as_quot | Add quotations marks
as_sid | Convert an input to a source property SID
check_input | Generic input checker
createrows | "CREATE" rows
createrows.tidy | "CREATE" rows from tidy format
disambiguate_QIDs | Disambiguate QIDs
extract_claims | Extract Claims from Returned Item Data
extract_para | Extract a paragraph of text
filter_qids | Filter QIDs
find_item | Search for Wikidata items or properties that match a search term
find_property | Search for Wikidata items or properties that match a search term
get_example | Get an example SPARQL query from Wikidata
get_geo_box | Get geographic entities based on a bounding box
get_geo_entity | Retrieve geographic information from Wikidata
get_item | Retrieve specific Wikidata items or properties
get_names_from_properties | Get names of properties
get_property | Retrieve specific Wikidata items or properties
get_random | Retrieve randomly-selected Wikidata items or properties
get_random_item | Retrieve randomly-selected Wikidata items or properties
get_random_property | Retrieve randomly-selected Wikidata items or properties
identifier_from_identifier | identifier from identifier
initials | Format short form person names
list_properties | List properties of a Wikidata item
print.find_item | Print method for find_item
print.find_property | Print method for find_property
print.wikidata | Print method for Wikidata objects
qid_from_DOI | QID from DOI
qid_from_identifier | QID from identifier
qid_from_name | QID from label name
qid_from_ORCID | QID from ORCID
query_wikidata | Send one or more SPARQL queries to WDQS
searcher | Convert an input to a item QID
sparql_query | Download full Wikidata items matching a sparql query
unspecial | Remove special characters
url_to_id | Extract an identifier from a wikidata URL
WD.globalvar | Global variables for Wikidata properties
wd_query | Download a Wikidata item
wd_rand_query | Download random Wikidata items
WikidataR | API client library for Wikidata
write_wikidata | Write statements to Wikidata