Snapquery

OsProject

OsProject
id	snapquery
state	active
owner	WolfgangFahl
title	snapquery
url	https://github.com/WolfgangFahl/snapquery
version	0.0.7
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	2024-05-07
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

Web

nominate

To nominate a query you need to first identify you with a persistent indentifier such as:

• ORCID e.g. [https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1279-3709 0000-0003-1279-3709 (Tim Berners-Lee)
• Wikidata ID e.g. Q80 (Tim Berners-Lee)
• dblp author ID e.g. b/TimBernersLee (Tim-Berners Lee)

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

RESTFul API

http://snapquery.bitplan.com/docs

query

curl '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

sparql

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

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

cats

snapquery -qn cats --limit 10 -f mediawiki

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

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

snapquery --namespace scholia -qn author_list-of-publications --params q=Q80 --limit 2 -f mediawiki

query

#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

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

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

Initial database import

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.

Links

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