WB(1)

✨ NAME ✨

wb — your lil command-line bestie for talking to Wikibase 💖 like literally everything you need, from the terminal, no clicking required

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

wb [options] [command]

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

A command-line interface to Wikibase. That's the whole vibe — you get to poke at Wikibase from your terminal instead of the browser, and honestly? It's giving main character energy 🫶

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -V, --version — prints the version number, so you can flex which build you're running ✨
• -h, --help — shows you the help for the command. your safety net, bestie 🧚

🦋 Commands 🦋

• add-alias|aa [entity] [language] [aliases] — adds one or several aliases to the list of aliases of an entity in a given language 🌈
• add-claim|ac [entity] [property] [value] — adds a claim to an entity
• add-qualifier|aq [claim-guid] [property] [value] — adds a qualifier to a claim
• add-reference|ar [claim-guid] [property] [value] — adds a reference to a claim
• aliases|a [entity] — shows the entity's aliases 👀
• claims|c [entity] [property] — shows the claims of an entity
• config [key] [value] — get and set configuration parameters
• convert [] — converts batches of external ids to Wikidata ids and vice versa
• create-entity|ce [data] — creates a new entity ✨ brand new, fresh out the box
• data|d [entity] — outputs the entity's data
• delete-entity|de [id] — deletes an entity 💀 gone, poof
• description|desc [entity] — shows the entity's description
• edit-entity|ee [data] — edits an existing entity
• generate-template|gt [entity] — outputs the pre-formatted item's data optimized for edition with wd edit-item 🎀
• hub|h [query] — opens a web page using the Hub, see the documentation: https://tools.wmflabs.org/hub/
• id [title] — gets a Wikidata id from a Wikipedia article title
• label|l [entity] — shows the entity's label
• lang [code] — identifies a language code and returns the associated data 🌍
• lemma [lexeme] — shows the lexeme's lemma
• merge-entity|me [from-id] [to-id] — merges an entity into another
• move-claim|mc [guid|property-claims-id] [target-entity-id] [target-property-id] — moves claims from an entity to another and/or from a property to another
• move-qualifier|mq [guid] [hash] [old-property-id] [new-property-id] — moves qualifiers of a claim from one property to another
• open|o [entity] — opens the entity's page on the Wikidata website
• props|p — outputs the list of all Wikidata properties
• query|q [] — generates and runs a simple SPARQL query by passing a statement's subject, property, or object, or a couple of those 🔥
• remove-alias|ra [entity] [language] [aliases] — removes one or several aliases from the list of aliases of an entity in a given language
• remove-claim|rc [guids] — removes claims by their GUIDs
• remove-qualifier|rq [claim-guid] [qualifiers-hashes] — removes qualifiers from a claim
• remove-reference|rr [claim-guid] [references-hashes] — removes references from a claim
• revisions|r [entity] — outputs the entity's revisions data 📜
• search|f [search] — searches entities 🔍
• set-alias|sa [entity] [language] [aliases] — sets the list of aliases of an entity in a given language
• set-description|sd [entity] [language] [description] — sets a description on an entity in a given language
• set-label|sl [entity] [language] [label] — sets a label on an entity in a given language
• sparql|s [file.rq] — runs a SPARQL query and gets its JSON output
• summary|u [entity] — shows basic information on the requested entity
• update-claim|uc [guid] [new-value] — updates a claim's value
• update-qualifier|uq [claim-guid] [property] [old-value] [new-value] — updates a qualifier from an existing value to a new value
• help [command] — displays help for command 🫶 when in doubt, ask for help, that's the rule

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okay that's literally the whole page, bestie — go forth and edit some entities 💅✨

this was wb version 15.15.4, dated November 2023 — she's a Scorpio, she's iconic, she's on the WB(1) manual page, and she ate 👑