transliterations/src/wikidata_api_calls.py

   1 # File defines functions for making api calls to find translations and transliterations for key terms.
   2 import mwapi
   3 import requests
   4 import sys
   5 import time
   6 from defaults import user_agent
   7
   8 def get_wikidata_api():
   9     session = mwapi.Session(host="https://wikidata.org/w/api.php", user_agent=user_agent)
  10     return session
  11
  12 def search_wikidata(session, term, *args, **kwargs):
  13     search_results = session.get(action='query',
  14                                  list='search',
  15                                  srsearch=term,
  16 #                                 srqiprofile='popular_inclinks_pv',
  17                                  srlimit='max',
  18                                  srnamespace=0,
  19                                  *args,
  20                                  **kwargs)
  21
  22
  23     query = search_results.get('query', None)
  24     results = query.get('search', None)
  25
  26     if results is None:
  27         raise mwapi.session.APIError(f"No results for query: {term}")
  28
  29     return results
  30
  31 def run_sparql_query(q):
  32     results = requests.get("https://query.wikidata.org/bigdata/namespace/wdq/sparql",params={"query":q,"format":"json"})
  33     time.sleep(2)
  34     return results
  35