R: Retrieve specific Wikidata items or properties

get_item {WikidataR} | R Documentation

## Retrieve specific Wikidata items or properties

### Description

`get_item` and `get_property` allow you to retrieve the data associated with individual Wikidata items and properties, respectively. As with other `WikidataR` code, custom print methods are available; use `str` to manipulate and see the underlying structure of the data.

### Usage

    get_item(id, ...)

    get_property(id, ...)

### Arguments

`id` | the ID number(s) of the item or property you're looking for. This can be in various formats; either a numeric value ("200"), the full name ("Q200") or even with an included namespace ("Property:P10") - the function will format it appropriately. This function is vectorised and will happily accept multiple IDs.
`...` | further arguments to pass to httr's GET.

### See Also

`get_random` for selecting a random item or property, or `find_item` for using search functionality to pull out item or property IDs where the descriptions or aliases match a particular search term.

### Examples

    #Retrieve a specific item
    adams_metadata <- get_item("42")

    #Retrieve a specific property
    object_is_child <- get_property("P40")

[Package WikidataR version 1.4.0 Index]