wikidata_suggest

wikidata_suggest is a simple command line tool for interactively reconciling your data against Wikidata. First you'll want to install:

% pip install wikidata_suggest

Once you've installed it you will get a command line tool wd:

Most likely you will want to use wikidata_suggest as a little data cleansing/augmentation library. For example if you have a CSV spreadsheet that has an author column that you'd like to link up to Wikidata, you can do something like this:

import csv

from wikidata_suggest import suggest

reader = csv.reader(open("data.csv"))
writer = csv.writer(open("new_data.csv", "wb"))

# read the csv 
for row in reader:

    # column 2 has author names
    author = row[1]

    # drop into interactive session
    wikidata = suggest(author)

    if wikidata:
        row.append(wikidata["id"])
    else:
        row.append(None)

    # write our new row 
    writer.writerow(row)

reader.close()
writer.close()