GET /w/api.php

wikidata.org:wikidata-api

Summary: Get Wikidata entities
Operation ID: wbGetEntities
Auth: unknown
Description

Retrieves data from one or more Wikidata entities (items or properties). Use action=wbgetentities.

Parameters (7)

action (string, query, required)

Must be 'wbgetentities' to retrieve entities

Constraints: {'enum': ['wbgetentities']}

format (string, query, optional, default: json)

Output format

Constraints: {'enum': ['json', 'jsonfm', 'xml', 'xmlfm', 'php', 'none']}

ids (string, query, optional)

IDs of the entities to retrieve (e.g., Q42, P31). Separate multiple IDs with pipe '|'.

languages (string, query, optional)

Language codes for labels/descriptions to return (comma-separated, e.g., 'en,de,fr')

props (string, query, optional, default: info|sitelinks|aliases|labels|descriptions|claims|datatype)

Properties to retrieve (pipe-separated: info, sitelinks, aliases, labels, descriptions, claims, datatype)

sites (string, query, optional)

Sites to query for titles (e.g., enwiki, dewiki). Required when using titles.

titles (string, query, optional)

Page titles to look up. Cannot be used with ids.

Examples (2)

TitleTypeURLAction
Get Wikidata entities openapi-spec https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?ids=Q42|P31&languages=en,de,fr
Get Wikidata entities probe-gate https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?ids=Q42%7CP31&languages=en%2Cde%2Cfr&props=info%7Csitelinks%7Caliases%7Clabels%7Cdescriptions%7Cclaims%7Cdatatype&format=json

Probe History

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Status Codes

TimeStatusLatencySize
2026-03-23 09:34:31.343601 200 657ms
2026-03-23 09:00:07.859055 200 741ms
2026-03-21T18:00:35.545383 200 847ms

Response Changes

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2026-03-23 09:00:07.859055 5e549cd3ab16 6c0f3bade55d
2026-03-23 09:34:31.343601 6c0f3bade55d cf17fd5e5a14