Snapquery

OsProject

OsProject
id	snapquery
state	active
owner	WolfgangFahl
title	snapquery
url	https://github.com/WolfgangFahl/snapquery
version	0.0.5
description	Frontend to Introduce Named Queries and Named Query Middleware to wikidata
date	2024-05-05
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

• BITPlan
• RWTH Aachen i5

Usage

RESTFul API

query

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

cats

query

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

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

Commandline

Help

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 ENDPOINTNAME] [-le]

Introduce Named Queries and Named Query Middleware to wikidata

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 ENDPOINTNAME, --endpointName ENDPOINTNAME
                        Name of the endpoint to use for queries - use
                        --listEndpoints to list available endpoints
  -le, --listEndpoints  show the list of available endpoints

List Endpoints

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

snapquery -qn cats --limit 10 -f mediawiki

cats

query

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

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

= Mass Import Queries

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

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

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

Links

• https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/wmh2024-Wikimedia_Hackathon_2024_Closing