For example, to view the JSON of:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q269728
You should be able to visit:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q269728.json
Currently you can find the json at: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:EntityData/Q269728.json which is practically impossible to find and is not linked in the "Tools" sidebar or anywhere else I can find. I saw somewhere that "content negotiation" might be possible to view the json format, but it is not practical in many use cases.
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open | None | T44063 [Epic] Provide a plain linked data interface for accessing entities | |||
| Open | None | T109420 [Story] Make exports formats more visible | |||
| Declined | Multichill | T122711 Appending ".json" to an entity url should work (Feature Request) |
This already works for https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q269728.json (that's the URL found under "Concept URI" in the sidebar with .json appended).
See also T66515.
What do you want exactly?
To be able to add ".json" to a url in your browser's url bar.
If you visit:
https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q269728 (/entity)
You will be redirected to:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q269728 (/wiki)
So I'm not sure how anyone would find the working json url of:
https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q269728.json (/entity .json)
Instead, you'll probably find this:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q269728.json (* /wiki .json)
with the message "This entity does not exist"
Why not make it work the same way as the "/entity .json" url? i.e. also
redirect it to https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:EntityData/Q269728.json
This ticket appears to be some kind of subticket of T109420: [Story] Make exports formats more visible. Both are about discoverability.
Personally I support what is asked for here. When I'm on a wiki page like
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q269728
and I add ".json" at the end, I expect the resulting URL
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q269728.json
to not show a "page not found" error as it does now, but to redirect to
https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q269728.json
Thanks thiemowmde for drawing the connection. I've added this as a child task in case someone suddenly decides to write a couple of nginx regex rewrite rules to make this happen.
@Pengo @Ivanhercaz @thiemowmde Hey is this task completed? I am new to open source and mediawiki and would like to contribute. Can you guide me? Thanks.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q269728 is the entity uri (not https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q269728), http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q269728.json redirects to https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:EntityData/Q269728.json which returns the json. Marking this one as resolved.
With all the respect, but the task specifically asks to make https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q269728.json work. It might be that this is not something the Wikidata team want's to implement and maintain. If this is the case, the task needs to be declined, not closed as "resolved".
FWIW, I made a small Javascript that does exactly this, here: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Jon_Harald_S%C3%B8by/jsonredirect.js