Wikidata Statements API
Statement (claim) operations
Wikidata Statements API is one of 9 APIs that Wikidata publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.
This API exposes 1 JSON Schema definition.
Tagged areas include Statements. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, a JSON-LD context, and 1 JSON Schema.
This API exposes 4 operations across 2 paths, and defines 3 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.1.0, at version 1.0.
Requests are made against 2 base URLs: https://www.wikidata.org/w/rest.php/wikibase/v0, https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Authentication & Security 2
Wikidata Statements API declares
2 security schemes
for authenticating requests.
It supports OAuth 2.0 (OAuth2) using the authorizationCode flow, exposing 2 scopes.
An API key is passed in the cookie as wikidataSession (MediaWikiSession).
Paths & Operations 4
Across 2 paths, the API surfaces 4 operations — 1 DELETE, 2 GET, 1 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
Statement (claim) operations
Schemas 3
The contract defines 3 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are Statement (6 properties), StatementCreate (6 properties), DataValue (2 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.
Specification
The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.
Source
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