The Command-line interface interface to Wikidata

• Dependencies
  • General
  • Per feature
• Installation
  • Via NPM
  • Via Docker
• Commands
  • Read operations
  • Write operations
  • Config
• See Also
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• License

NodeJs >= v6.4.0 (recommended way to install it: use the awesome NVM)

• to use the clipboard option: see copy-paste dependencies

npm install -g wikidata-cli

Installing globally allows to make the command wikidata-cli and its alias wd accessible from your shell $PATH

# Might require to be run with sudo depending on your Docker installation
docker run --rm -t maxlath/wikidata-cli
# You can make an alias out of it:
alias wd="docker run --rm -t maxlath/wikidata-cli"

see Read operations

see Write operations

Allows to persist options

see Config

• wikidata-sdk: A javascript tool suite to query and work with Wikidata data, heavily used by wikidata-cli
• wikidata-edit: Edit Wikidata from NodeJS, used in wikidata-cli for all write operations
• wikidata-filter: A command-line tool to filter a Wikidata dump by claim
• wikidata-subset-search-engine: Tools to setup an ElasticSearch instance fed with subsets of Wikidata
• wikidata-taxonomy: A command-line tool to extract taxonomies from Wikidata
• import-wikidata-dump-to-couchdb: Import a subset or a full Wikidata dump into a CouchDB database
• Other Wikidata external tools

Do you know inventaire.io? It's a web app to share books with your friends, built on top of Wikidata! And its libre software too.

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