Snapquery


Wolfgang Fahl

OsProject

OsProject
id  snapquery
state  active
owner  WolfgangFahl
title  snapquery
url  https://github.com/WolfgangFahl/snapquery
version  0.0.12
description  Just Query wikidata and other SPARQL endpoints by qury name - a frontend to Introduce Named Queries and Named Query Middleware to wikidata and other SPARQL endpoints
date  2024-07-13
since  2024-05-03
until  

Motivation

Querying Knowledge Graphs such as wikidata that are based on SPARQL is too complex for mere mortals. A simple

snapquery cats

should work. See https://snapquery.bitplan.com/query/wikidata-examples/cats for an example

Demos

Usage

OsProject[edit]

OsProject
id  snapquery
state  active
owner  WolfgangFahl
title  snapquery
url  https://github.com/WolfgangFahl/snapquery
version  0.0.12
description  Just Query wikidata and other SPARQL endpoints by qury name - a frontend to Introduce Named Queries and Named Query Middleware to wikidata and other SPARQL endpoints
date  2024-07-13
since  2024-05-03
until  

Motivation[edit]

Querying Knowledge Graphs such as wikidata that are based on SPARQL is too complex for mere mortals. A simple

snapquery cats

should work. See https://snapquery.bitplan.com/query/wikidata-examples/cats for an example

Web[edit]

nominate[edit]

To nominate a query, you need to first identify yourself with a persistent identifier (PID) such as:

You can either enter such an ID directly or use the lookup functionality to do so.

After identifying yourself, you can then assign the following information to your query:

  • a domain
  • a namespace
  • a name
  • a title
  • a description
  • a URL
  • a SPARQL query
  • comments

For example, the prominent cats query would be specified as:

  • Domain: wikidata.org
  • Name: Cats
  • Namespace: snapquery-examples
  • Title: Cats on Wikidata
  • Description: This query retrieves all items classified under 'house cat' (Q146) on Wikidata
  • Query:
# snapquery cats example
SELECT ?item ?itemLabel
WHERE {
  ?item wdt:P31 wd:Q146. # Must be a cat
  OPTIONAL { ?item rdfs:label ?itemLabel. }
  FILTER (LANG(?itemLabel) = "en")
}

RESTFul API[edit]

http://snapquery.bitplan.com/docs

query[edit]

curl 'https://snapquery.bitplan.com/api/query/wikidata-examples/cats.mediawiki?limit=5'

cats[edit]

query[edit]
SELECT ?item ?itemLabel
WHERE {
  ?item wdt:P31 wd:Q146. # Must be a cat
  SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "[AUTO_LANGUAGE],en". }
}

LIMIT 5

try it!

result[edit]
item itemLabel
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q378619 CC
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q498787 Muezza
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q677525 Orangey
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q851190 Mrs. Chippy
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q893453 Unsinkable Sam

sparql[edit]

curl 'https://snapquery.bitplan.com/api/sparql/wikidata-examples/cats'

SELECT ?item ?itemLabel
WHERE {
  ?item wdt:P31 wd:Q146. # Must be a cat
  SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "[AUTO_LANGUAGE],en". }
}

Commandline[edit]

Help[edit]

snapquery -h
snapquery % snapquery -h
usage: snapquery [-h] [-a] [--apache APACHE] [-c] [-d]
                 [--debugServer DEBUGSERVER] [--debugPort DEBUGPORT]
                 [--debugRemotePath DEBUGREMOTEPATH]
                 [--debugLocalPath DEBUGLOCALPATH] [-l] [-i INPUT] [-rol]
                 [--host HOST] [--port PORT] [-s] [-V] [-ep ENDPOINTPATH]
                 [-en {wikidata,wikidata-triply,wikidata-qlever,wikidata-openlinksw,wikidata-scatter,orkg,dblp,dblp-qlever,dblp-trier,wikidata-scholarly-experimental,wikidata-main-experimental}]
                 [-idb] [-le] [-lm] [-ln] [-lg] [-tq] [--limit LIMIT]
                 [--params PARAMS] [--domain DOMAIN] [--namespace NAMESPACE]
                 [-qn QUERYNAME]
                 [-f {csv,json,html,xml,tsv,latex,mediawiki,raw,github}]
                 [--import IMPORT_FILE] [--context CONTEXT]
                 [--prefix_merger {RAW,SIMPLE_MERGER,ANALYSIS_MERGER}]
                 [query_id]

Introduce Named Queries and Named Query Middleware to wikidata

positional arguments:
  query_id              Query ID in the format 'name[--namespace[@domain]]'

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -a, --about           show about info [default: False]
  --apache APACHE       create an apache configuration file for the given
                        domain
  -c, --client          start client [default: False]
  -d, --debug           show debug info [default: False]
  --debugServer DEBUGSERVER
                        remote debug Server
  --debugPort DEBUGPORT
                        remote debug Port
  --debugRemotePath DEBUGREMOTEPATH
                        remote debug Server path mapping - remotePath - path
                        on debug server
  --debugLocalPath DEBUGLOCALPATH
                        remote debug Server path mapping - localPath - path on
                        machine where python runs
  -l, --local           run with local file system access [default: False]
  -i INPUT, --input INPUT
                        input file
  -rol, --render_on_load
                        render on load [default: False]
  --host HOST           the host to serve / listen from [default: localhost]
  --port PORT           the port to serve from [default: 9862]
  -s, --serve           start webserver [default: False]
  -V, --version         show program's version number and exit
  -ep ENDPOINTPATH, --endpointPath ENDPOINTPATH
                        path to yaml file to configure endpoints to use for
                        queries
  -en {wikidata,wikidata-triply,wikidata-qlever,wikidata-openlinksw,wikidata-scatter,orkg,dblp,dblp-qlever,dblp-trier,wikidata-scholarly-experimental,wikidata-main-experimental}, --endpointName {wikidata,wikidata-triply,wikidata-qlever,wikidata-openlinksw,wikidata-scatter,orkg,dblp,dblp-qlever,dblp-trier,wikidata-scholarly-experimental,wikidata-main-experimental}
                        Name of the endpoint to use for queries - use
                        --listEndpoints to list available endpoints
  -idb, --initDatabase  initialize the database
  -le, --listEndpoints  show the list of available endpoints
  -lm, --listMetaqueries
                        show the list of available metaqueries
  -ln, --listNamespaces
                        show the list of available namespaces
  -lg, --listGraphs     show the list of available graphs
  -tq, --testQueries    test run the queries
  --limit LIMIT         set limit parameter of query
  --params PARAMS       query parameters as Key-value pairs in the format
                        key1=value1,key2=value2
  --domain DOMAIN       domain to filter queries
  --namespace NAMESPACE
                        namespace to filter queries
  -qn QUERYNAME, --queryName QUERYNAME
                        run a named query
  -f {csv,json,html,xml,tsv,latex,mediawiki,raw,github}, --format {csv,json,html,xml,tsv,latex,mediawiki,raw,github}
  --import IMPORT_FILE  Import named queries from a JSON file.
  --context CONTEXT     context name to store the execution statistics with
  --prefix_merger {RAW,SIMPLE_MERGER,ANALYSIS_MERGER}
                        query prefix merger to use

List Endpoints[edit]

snapquery --listEndpoints
wikidata:https://query.wikidata.org:https://query.wikidata.org/sparql(POST)
qlever-wikidata:https://qlever.cs.uni-freiburg.de/wikidata:https://qlever.cs.uni-freiburg.de/api/wikidata(POST)

Run Query[edit]

cats[edit]

snapquery -qn cats --limit 10 -f mediawiki
query[edit]
SELECT ?item ?itemLabel
WHERE {
  ?item wdt:P31 wd:Q146. # Must be a cat
  SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "[AUTO_LANGUAGE],en". }
}

try it!

result[edit]
item itemLabel
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q378619 CC
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q498787 Muezza
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q677525 Orangey
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q851190 Mrs. Chippy
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q893453 Unsinkable Sam
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1050083 Catmando
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1185550 Oscar
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1201902 Tama
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1207136 Dewey Readmore Books
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1371145 Socks

scholia author_list-of-publications with parameter Q80 (papers by Tim-Berners-Lee)[edit]

snapquery --namespace scholia -qn author_list-of-publications --params q=Q80 --limit 2 -f mediawiki
query[edit]
#defaultView:Table
PREFIX target: <http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q80>

SELECT
  (MIN(?dates) AS ?date)
  ?work ?workLabel
  (GROUP_CONCAT(DISTINCT ?type_label; separator=", ") AS ?type)
  (SAMPLE(?pages_) AS ?pages)
  ?venue ?venueLabel
  (GROUP_CONCAT(DISTINCT ?author_label; separator=", ") AS ?authors)
  (CONCAT("../authors/", GROUP_CONCAT(DISTINCT SUBSTR(STR(?author), 32); separator=",")) AS ?authorsUrl)
WHERE {
  ?work wdt:P50 target: .
  ?work wdt:P50 ?author .
  OPTIONAL {
    ?author rdfs:label ?author_label_ . FILTER (LANG(?author_label_) = 'en')
  }
  BIND(COALESCE(?author_label_, SUBSTR(STR(?author), 32)) AS ?author_label)
  OPTIONAL { ?work wdt:P31 ?type_ . ?type_ rdfs:label ?type_label . FILTER (LANG(?type_label) = 'en') }
  ?work wdt:P577 ?datetimes .
  BIND(xsd:date(?datetimes) AS ?dates)
  OPTIONAL { ?work wdt:P1104 ?pages_ }
  OPTIONAL { ?work wdt:P1433 ?venue }
  SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "en,da,de,es,fr,jp,no,ru,sv,zh". }  
}
GROUP BY ?work ?workLabel ?venue ?venueLabel
ORDER BY DESC(?date)  

LIMIT 2

try it!

result[edit]
date work workLabel type venue venueLabel authors authorsUrl pages
2023-07-07 http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q125750037 Linked Data - The Story So Far chapter http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q125750044 Linking the World’s Information Christian Bizer, Tom Heath, Tim Berners-Lee ../authors/Q17744291,Q17744272,Q80
2017-01-01 http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30096408 Linked Data Notifications: A Resource-Centric Communication Protocol scholarly article http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30092087 The Semantic Web: 14th International Conference, ESWC 2017, Portorož, Slovenia, May 28 – June 1, 2017, Proceedings, Part I Christoph Lange, Amy Guy, Sarven Capadisli, Sören Auer, Tim Berners-Lee ../authors/Q30276490,Q30086138,Q30078591,Q27453085,Q80 17

Mass Import Queries[edit]

snapquery --import samples/scholia.json 
Importing Named Queries: 100%|████████████| 372/372 [00:00<00:00, 226127.69it/s]
Imported 372 named queries from samples/scholia.json.


Installation[edit]

pip install snapquery
# alternatively if your pip is not a python3 pip
pip3 install snapquery 
# local install from source directory of snapquery 
pip install .

upgrade[edit]

pip install snapquery  -U
# alternatively if your pip is not a python3 pip
pip3 install snapquery -U


OsProject[edit]

OsProject
id  snapquery
state  active
owner  WolfgangFahl
title  snapquery
url  https://github.com/WolfgangFahl/snapquery
version  0.0.12
description  Just Query wikidata and other SPARQL endpoints by qury name - a frontend to Introduce Named Queries and Named Query Middleware to wikidata and other SPARQL endpoints
date  2024-07-13
since  2024-05-03
until  

Motivation[edit]

Querying Knowledge Graphs such as wikidata that are based on SPARQL is too complex for mere mortals. A simple

snapquery cats

should work. See https://snapquery.bitplan.com/query/wikidata-examples/cats for an example

Initial database import[edit]

scripts/restore_db 
Importing Named Queries: 100%|██████████████████| 28/28 [00:25<00:00,  1.09it/s]
Imported 28 named queries from samples/ceur-ws.json.
Importing Named Queries: 100%|████████████| 372/372 [00:00<00:00, 210308.81it/s]
Imported 372 named queries from samples/scholia.json.
Importing Named Queries: 100%|████████████| 298/298 [00:00<00:00, 252149.00it/s]
Imported 298 named queries from samples/wikidata-examples.json.
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