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Wikidata API: List items by criteria

Lists Wikidata items of a named kind, optionally in a country or directly assigned to a region or city, or with an award, sorted by Wikipedia language editions, date or name.

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Inputs

Values from the run on Oct 31, 2026, shown under Output.

Kind, requiredkind

Kind of item, for example university or person.

person

Sort optionalsort

Result order; most_notable ranks by number of Wikipedia language editions, for example newest.

most_notable (default)

One of most_notable, newest, oldest, alphabetical.

Award optionalaward

Optional award received, for example Nobel Prize in Physics.

Nobel Prize in Physics

Default .

Located in optionallocated_in

Optional country, region, or city, for example Canada.

(default)

Max Results optionalmax_results

Maximum number of items, for example 50 (up to 500).

500

Whole number from 1 to 500. Default 50.

Output

From a run on Oct 31, 2026, shortened for this page.
{  "items": [    {      "name": "Albert Einstein",      "country": "Germany",      "item_id": "Q937",      "start_date": "1879-03-14",      "wikidata_link": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q937",      "short_description": "German-born theoretical physicist (1879–1955)",      "english_wikipedia_link": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein"    },    {      "name": "Marie Curie",      "country": "France",      "item_id": "Q7186",      "start_date": "1867-11-07",      "wikidata_link": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7186",      "short_description": "Polish-born French physicist and chemist (1867–1934)",      "english_wikipedia_link": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Curie"    },    {      "name": "Niels Bohr",      "country": "Kingdom of Denmark",      "item_id": "Q7085",      "start_date": "1885-10-07",      "wikidata_link": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7085",      "short_description": "Danish physicist (1885–1962)",      "english_wikipedia_link": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niels_Bohr"    }  ]}
Price
1 credit per completed run (1¢ with pay as you go); failed runs are free.
Method
wikidata.org/list_items_by_criteria
Returns
name, short description, country, start date, English Wikipedia link, Wikidata link, item id

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