# Wikidata Scraper (`dami_studio/wikidata-scraper`) Actor

Search Wikidata by name or resolve Q-ids to full records via the public Wikibase API. Get labels, descriptions, aliases, instance-of, occupation, citizenship, simplified claims, and the Wikipedia link. No key, no login.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/dami\_studio/wikidata-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Dami's Studio](https://apify.com/dami_studio) (community)
- **Categories:** Developer tools, AI
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$0.20 / 1,000 item returneds

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

Actors are a software tools running on the Apify platform, for all kinds of web data extraction and automation use cases.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.
The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

In JavaScript/TypeScript projects, use official [JavaScript/TypeScript client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js.md):

```bash
npm install apify-client
```

In Python projects, use official [Python client library](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python.md):

```bash
pip install apify-client
```

In shell scripts, use [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md):

````bash
# MacOS / Linux
curl -fsSL https://apify.com/install-cli.sh | bash
# Windows
irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iex
```bash

In AI frameworks, you might use the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/mcp.md).

If your project is in a different language, use the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).

For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).


# README

## Wikidata Scraper

Search [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org) by name or phrase, or resolve a list of Q-ids into full, structured records — straight from the public MediaWiki / Wikibase API. **No API key, no login.**

Two modes:

- **Search** — free-text query (e.g. `douglas adams`) → matching entities with their Q-id, label and description.
- **Entities** — a list of Q-ids (e.g. `["Q42","Q5"]`) → full records: label, description, aliases, instance-of, occupation, citizenship, a simplified claims summary, and the linked Wikipedia article.

### Input

| Field | Notes |
|---|---|
| `mode` | `search` (default) or `entities`. |
| `query` | Search term. Used in **search** mode. |
| `ids` | Array of Q-ids, e.g. `["Q42","Q5"]`. Used in **entities** mode. Batched 50/request. |
| `language` | Term language, e.g. `en`, `fr`, `de`. Falls back to the multilingual (`mul`) value when missing. |
| `maxItems` | Max entities to return (search mode is capped at 50 per query by the API). |

### Output

One dataset row per entity.

**Search mode** rows:

````

{ ok, id, label, description, aliases\[], url }

```

**Entities mode** rows:

```

{ ok, id, label, description, aliases\[],
instanceOf\[],            // P31, as Q-ids
occupation\[],            // P106, as Q-ids
countryOfCitizenship\[],  // P27, as Q-ids
claimsSummary,           // { Pxx: \[simplified values] }
enwikiTitle, enwikiUrl,  // linked English Wikipedia article (null if none)
url }                    // https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/{id}

````

#### How claims are simplified

`claimsSummary` flattens each property's statements into a list of scalar values:

- `wikibase-entityid` → `"Q…"` (the referenced item; not re-resolved — look it up separately if you need its label)
- `time` → the time string (e.g. `+1952-03-11T00:00:00Z`)
- `quantity` → the amount (e.g. `+1.96`)
- `monolingualtext` / `string` → the text
- `globecoordinate` → `"lat,lon"`
- anything else → compact JSON, trimmed

To keep rows a sensible size, the summary keeps up to 60 properties and up to 20 values per property. `instanceOf`, `occupation` and `countryOfCitizenship` are surfaced as their own fields for convenience (also as Q-ids).

#### The multilingual (`mul`) fallback

Many international entities store their canonical label/aliases under Wikidata's special `mul` (multilingual) language rather than per-language. For example, `Q42`'s label lives under `mul`, not `en`. This actor always requests both your chosen language **and** `mul`, so you still get `label: "Douglas Adams"` for `Q42`.

### Pricing

Pay-per-result: you are charged one `item` per genuine entity row (`ok: true`). You are **never** charged for:

- empty/invalid input — a single `ok: false` diagnostic row with `errorCode: "BAD_INPUT"`,
- no matches / no existing ids (`NO_RESULTS`),
- rate limits or network errors (`RATE_LIMITED` / `NETWORK`).

#### Proxy

The Wikidata API is a public, no-auth JSON API with no anti-bot, so **no proxy is required** and the default runs without one (saving proxy credits). Only enable Apify Proxy if you hit IP rate limits at very high volume. A descriptive `User-Agent` is sent on every request per Wikimedia's API etiquette.

### Examples

Search:

```json
{ "mode": "search", "query": "douglas adams", "language": "en", "maxItems": 10 }
````

Resolve entities:

```json
{ "mode": "entities", "ids": ["Q42", "Q5"], "language": "en" }
```

# Actor input Schema

## `mode` (type: `string`):

What to do. "search" runs a free-text entity search and returns matching Q-ids with their label/description. "entities" takes a list of Q-ids and returns full records (aliases, claims, Wikipedia link).

## `query` (type: `string`):

Free-text term to search Wikidata for, e.g. "douglas adams" or "eiffel tower". Used only in "search" mode. Leave empty when using "entities" mode.

## `ids` (type: `array`):

List of Wikidata item ids to resolve, e.g. \["Q42", "Q5"]. Used only in "entities" mode. Up to 50 ids are fetched per API request automatically.

## `language` (type: `string`):

Language code for labels, descriptions and aliases, e.g. en, fr, de, es, ja. Falls back to the multilingual (mul) value when a term isn't available in this language.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of entities to return. In search mode the API caps results at 50 per query.

## `notionConnector` (type: `string`):

Optional. Write each item as a page into your Notion when the run finishes. Authorize a Notion connector once in Settings → API & Integrations → MCP connectors, then pick it here. Leave empty to skip (default) — results are always saved to the dataset regardless.

## `notionParentId` (type: `string`):

Optional. The Notion data source ID of the database to write into (only used if a Notion connector is set). Leave empty to create the pages privately in your workspace instead.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

OPTIONAL. The Wikidata MediaWiki/Wikibase API is a public, no-auth JSON API with no anti-bot, so no proxy is needed and the default routes traffic directly (saving proxy credits). Only enable Apify Proxy if you hit IP rate limits at very high volume.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "mode": "search",
  "query": "douglas adams",
  "ids": [
    "Q42",
    "Q5"
  ],
  "language": "en",
  "maxItems": 50,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

Scraped rows are stored in the default dataset (one row per result). Blocked/empty/error runs return a single uncharged diagnostic row instead.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "query": "douglas adams",
    "ids": [
        "Q42",
        "Q5"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("dami_studio/wikidata-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "query": "douglas adams",
    "ids": [
        "Q42",
        "Q5",
    ],
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("dami_studio/wikidata-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "query": "douglas adams",
  "ids": [
    "Q42",
    "Q5"
  ]
}' |
apify call dami_studio/wikidata-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=dami_studio/wikidata-scraper",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

```json
{
    "openapi": "3.0.1",
    "info": {
        "title": "Wikidata Scraper",
        "description": "Search Wikidata by name or resolve Q-ids to full records via the public Wikibase API. Get labels, descriptions, aliases, instance-of, occupation, citizenship, simplified claims, and the Wikipedia link. No key, no login.",
        "version": "0.1",
        "x-build-id": "lmrEycqj98rh8jIFF"
    },
    "servers": [
        {
            "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2"
        }
    ],
    "paths": {
        "/acts/dami_studio~wikidata-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-get-dataset-items-dami_studio-wikidata-scraper",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for its completion, and returns Actor's dataset items in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/dami_studio~wikidata-scraper/runs": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "runs-sync-dami_studio-wikidata-scraper",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
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                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
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                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK",
                        "content": {
                            "application/json": {
                                "schema": {
                                    "$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema"
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/dami_studio~wikidata-scraper/run-sync": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-dami_studio-wikidata-scraper",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    },
    "components": {
        "schemas": {
            "inputSchema": {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {
                    "mode": {
                        "title": "Mode",
                        "enum": [
                            "search",
                            "entities"
                        ],
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "What to do. \"search\" runs a free-text entity search and returns matching Q-ids with their label/description. \"entities\" takes a list of Q-ids and returns full records (aliases, claims, Wikipedia link).",
                        "default": "search"
                    },
                    "query": {
                        "title": "Search query",
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "Free-text term to search Wikidata for, e.g. \"douglas adams\" or \"eiffel tower\". Used only in \"search\" mode. Leave empty when using \"entities\" mode."
                    },
                    "ids": {
                        "title": "Wikidata Q-ids",
                        "type": "array",
                        "description": "List of Wikidata item ids to resolve, e.g. [\"Q42\", \"Q5\"]. Used only in \"entities\" mode. Up to 50 ids are fetched per API request automatically.",
                        "items": {
                            "type": "string"
                        }
                    },
                    "language": {
                        "title": "Language",
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "Language code for labels, descriptions and aliases, e.g. en, fr, de, es, ja. Falls back to the multilingual (mul) value when a term isn't available in this language.",
                        "default": "en"
                    },
                    "maxItems": {
                        "title": "Max items",
                        "minimum": 1,
                        "maximum": 1000,
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "Maximum number of entities to return. In search mode the API caps results at 50 per query.",
                        "default": 50
                    },
                    "notionConnector": {
                        "title": "Notion connector (optional)",
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "Optional. Write each item as a page into your Notion when the run finishes. Authorize a Notion connector once in Settings → API & Integrations → MCP connectors, then pick it here. Leave empty to skip (default) — results are always saved to the dataset regardless."
                    },
                    "notionParentId": {
                        "title": "Notion target data source ID",
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "Optional. The Notion data source ID of the database to write into (only used if a Notion connector is set). Leave empty to create the pages privately in your workspace instead."
                    },
                    "proxyConfiguration": {
                        "title": "Proxy (optional)",
                        "type": "object",
                        "description": "OPTIONAL. The Wikidata MediaWiki/Wikibase API is a public, no-auth JSON API with no anti-bot, so no proxy is needed and the default routes traffic directly (saving proxy credits). Only enable Apify Proxy if you hit IP rate limits at very high volume.",
                        "default": {
                            "useApifyProxy": false
                        }
                    }
                }
            },
            "runsResponseSchema": {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {
                    "data": {
                        "type": "object",
                        "properties": {
                            "id": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "actId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "userId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "startedAt": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
                            },
                            "finishedAt": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
                            },
                            "status": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "example": "READY"
                            },
                            "meta": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "origin": {
                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "API"
                                    },
                                    "userAgent": {
                                        "type": "string"
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "stats": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "inputBodyLen": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 2000
                                    },
                                    "rebootCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "restartCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "resurrectCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "computeUnits": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "options": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "build": {
                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "latest"
                                    },
                                    "timeoutSecs": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 300
                                    },
                                    "memoryMbytes": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 1024
                                    },
                                    "diskMbytes": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 2048
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "buildId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultKeyValueStoreId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultDatasetId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultRequestQueueId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "buildNumber": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "example": "1.0.0"
                            },
                            "containerUrl": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "usage": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 1
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_SERPS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "usageTotalUsd": {
                                "type": "number",
                                "example": 0.00005
                            },
                            "usageUsd": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "number",
                                        "example": 0.00005
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_SERPS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}
```