tw_get_wikipedia_category_members: Get all Wikidata Q identifiers of all Wikipedia pages (or...

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Get all Wikidata Q identifiers of all Wikipedia pages (or files, or subcategories) that are members of the given category,

Description

Get all Wikidata Q identifiers of all Wikipedia pages (or files, or subcategories) that are members of the given category,

Usage

tw_get_wikipedia_category_members(
  url = NULL,
  category = NULL,
  type = "page",
  language = tidywikidatar::tw_get_language(),
  cache = NULL,
  overwrite_cache = FALSE,
  cache_connection = NULL,
  disconnect_db = TRUE,
  wait = 1,
  attempts = 10
)

Arguments

url	Full URL to a Wikipedia category page. If given, title and language can be left empty.
category	Title of a Wikipedia category page or final parts of its url. Must include "Category:", or equivalent in other languages. If given, url can be left empty, but language must be provided.
type	Defaults to "page", defines which kind of members of a category are returned. Valid values include "page", "file", and "subcat" (for sub-category). Corresponds to cmtype. For details, see the relevant page of the official documentation.
language	Defaults to language set with tw_set_language(); if not set, "en". Use "all_available" to keep all languages. For available language values, see the dedicated Wikimedia page.
cache	Defaults to NULL. If given, it should be given either TRUE or FALSE. Typically set with tw_enable_cache() or tw_disable_cache().
overwrite_cache	Logical, defaults to FALSE. If TRUE, it overwrites the table in the local sqlite database. Useful if the original Wikidata object has been updated.
cache_connection	Defaults to NULL. If NULL, and caching is enabled, tidywikidatar will use a local sqlite database. A custom connection to other databases can be given (see vignette caching for details).
disconnect_db	Defaults to TRUE. If FALSE, leaves the connection to cache open.
wait	In seconds, defaults to 0. Time to wait between queries to Wikidata. If data are cached locally, wait time is not applied. If you are running many queries systematically you may want to add some waiting time between queries.
attempts	Defaults to 10. Number of times it re-attempts to reach the API before failing.

Value

A data frame (a tibble) with eight columns: source_title_url, source_wikipedia_title, source_qid, wikipedia_title, wikipedia_id, qid, description, and language.

Examples

if (interactive()) {
  sub_categories <- tw_get_wikipedia_category_members(
    category = "Category:American women anthropologists",
    type = "subcat"
  )

  sub_categories

  tw_get_wikipedia_category_members(
    category = sub_categories$wikipedia_title,
    type = "page"
  )
}

tidywikidatar documentation built on Feb. 10, 2026, 1:07 a.m.