Wikidata Rust CLI (wkdr)

A command line tool to view and query information from Wikidata.

Installation

cargo install wkdr

Usage

wkdr -h

Searching

Any string that is not a valid entity ID will be searched:

wkdr Lviv

Use quotes to search for mulitple terms:

wkdr "zika virus"

Valid entity IDs (items or properties) display a summary. This command will display all the data about Tirana:

wkdr Q19689

And this will show information about the property "Polish cultural heritage register number":

wkdr P3424

Contributing

This tool and the community around it are part of the Wikimedia movement. Everybody is welcome to contribute. Plase refer to this guide https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Code_of_Conduct before contributing.

License

GNU General Public License, Version 2 or later (GPL-2.0+)

Repository / Issue tracker

https://gitlab.com/tobias47n9e/wkdr

Crates.io

https://crates.io/crates/wkdr

Dedication

Dedicated to Krzysztof Machocki. We will remember Krzysztof with his contagious enthusiasm and dedication, for his vast encyclopedic knowledge and wit, for his faith in how Wikipedia makes the world better, both online and offline. We lose him but let us not lose the faith he shared with the world. The memory of him remains and his Wikipedia legacy will continue to help the world.

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CEE/Newsletter/January_2018/Contents/From_the_team