I have used action=wbsearchentities with type=lexeme in the Ordia Toolforge tool. It has worked but now it no longer works.
Here is a short Python program that reproduces the problem.
import requests
HEADERS = {
'User-Agent': 'Ordia',
}
params = {
'action': 'wbsearchentities',
'format': 'json',
'search': "ankomst",
'language': "da",
'type': 'lexeme',
}
response = requests.get(
'https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php',
headers=HEADERS, params=params)
print(response.ok)Result: Prints False. And a message with "Our servers are currently under maintenance or experiencing a technical problem." and status code 500.
Expect: Prints True
Disabling "'type': 'lexeme'," yields a non-error result, - but does not search lexemes
I do not recall hearing of any changes in the API, and the documentation at https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=help&modules=wbsearchentities is still indicating type=lexeme should work.
The below code does not return an error, but does not return a result (it should return L45438).
params = {
'action': 'wbsearchentities',
'format': 'json',
'search': "L:ankomst",
'language': "da",
#'type': 'lexeme',
}