wikitaxa - taxonomy data from Wikipedia/Wikidata/Wikispecies
The low level API is meant for power users and gives you more control, but requires more knowledge.
wt_wiki_page()wt_wiki_page_parse()wt_wiki_url_build()wt_wiki_url_parse()wt_wikispecies_parse()wt_wikicommons_parse()wt_wikipedia_parse()
The high level API is meant to be easier and faster to use.
wt_data()wt_data_id()wt_wikispecies()wt_wikicommons()wt_wikipedia()
Search functions:
wt_wikicommons_search()wt_wikispecies_search()wt_wikipedia_search()
CRAN version
install.packages("wikitaxa")Dev version
install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("ropensci/wikitaxa")library('wikitaxa')wt_data("Poa annua")Get a Wikidata ID
wt_data_id("Mimulus foliatus")
#> [1] "Q6495130"
#> attr(,"class")
#> [1] "wiki_id"lower level
pg <- wt_wiki_page("https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malus_domestica")
res <- wt_wiki_page_parse(pg)
res$iwlinks
#> [1] "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/apple"
#> [2] "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Search/Apple"
#> [3] "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Apples"
#> [4] "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Apple"
#> [5] "https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Apples"
#> [6] "https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Malus_domestica"
#> [7] "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Apple_cultivars"higher level
res <- wt_wikipedia("Malus domestica")
res$common_names
#> # A tibble: 1 x 2
#> name language
#> <chr> <chr>
#> 1 Apple en
res$classification
#> # A tibble: 3 x 2
#> rank name
#> <chr> <chr>
#> 1 plainlinks
#> 2 species M. pumila
#> 3 binomial Malus pumilachoose a wikipedia language
# French
wt_wikipedia(name = "Malus domestica", wiki = "fr")
# Slovak
wt_wikipedia(name = "Malus domestica", wiki = "sk")
# Vietnamese
wt_wikipedia(name = "Malus domestica", wiki = "vi")lower level
pg <- wt_wiki_page("https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Abelmoschus")
res <- wt_wikicommons_parse(pg)
res$common_names[1:3]
#> [[1]]
#> [[1]]$name
#> [1] "okra"
#>
#> [[1]]$language
#> [1] "en"
#>
#>
#> [[2]]
#> [[2]]$name
#> [1] "مسكي"
#>
#> [[2]]$language
#> [1] "ar"
#>
#>
#> [[3]]
#> [[3]]$name
#> [1] "Abelmoş"
#>
#> [[3]]$language
#> [1] "az"higher level
res <- wt_wikicommons("Abelmoschus")
res$classification
#> # A tibble: 15 x 2
#> rank name
#> <chr> <chr>
#> 1 Domain Eukaryota
#> 2 unranked Archaeplastida
#> 3 Regnum Plantae
#> 4 Cladus angiosperms
#> 5 Cladus eudicots
#> 6 Cladus core eudicots
#> 7 Cladus superrosids
#> 8 Cladus rosids
#> 9 Cladus eurosids II
#> 10 Ordo Malvales
#> 11 Familia Malvaceae
#> 12 Subfamilia Malvoideae
#> 13 Tribus Hibisceae
#> 14 Genus Abelmoschus
#> 15 Authority Medik. (1787)
res$common_names
#> # A tibble: 19 x 2
#> name language
#> <chr> <chr>
#> 1 okra en
#> 2 مسكي ar
#> 3 Abelmoş az
#> 4 Ibiškovec cs
#> 5 Bisameibisch de
#> 6 Okrat fi
#> 7 Abelmosco gl
#> 8 Abelmošus hr
#> 9 Ybiškė lt
#> 10 "അബെ\u0d7dമോസ്കസ്" ml
#> 11 Абельмош mrj
#> 12 Abelmoskusslekta nn
#> 13 Piżmian pl
#> 14 Абельмош ru
#> 15 موري sd
#> 16 Okrasläktet sv
#> 17 Абельмош udm
#> 18 Chi Vông vang vi
#> 19 黄葵属 zhlower level
pg <- wt_wiki_page("https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Malus_domestica")
res <- wt_wikispecies_parse(pg, types = "common_names")
res$common_names[1:3]
#> [[1]]
#> [[1]]$name
#> [1] "Ябълка"
#>
#> [[1]]$language
#> [1] "български"
#>
#>
#> [[2]]
#> [[2]]$name
#> [1] "Poma, pomera"
#>
#> [[2]]$language
#> [1] "català"
#>
#>
#> [[3]]
#> [[3]]$name
#> [1] "Apfel"
#>
#> [[3]]$language
#> [1] "Deutsch"higher level
res <- wt_wikispecies("Malus domestica")
res$classification
#> # A tibble: 8 x 2
#> rank name
#> <chr> <chr>
#> 1 Superregnum Eukaryota
#> 2 Regnum Plantae
#> 3 Cladus Angiosperms
#> 4 Cladus Eudicots
#> 5 Cladus Core eudicots
#> 6 Cladus Rosids
#> 7 Cladus Eurosids I
#> 8 Ordo Rosales
res$common_names
#> # A tibble: 19 x 2
#> name language
#> <chr> <chr>
#> 1 Ябълка български
#> 2 Poma, pomera català
#> 3 Apfel Deutsch
#> 4 Aed-õunapuu eesti
#> 5 Μηλιά Ελληνικά
#> 6 Apple English
#> 7 Manzano español
#> 8 Pomme français
#> 9 Melâr furlan
#> 10 사과나무 한국어
#> 11 ‘Āpala Hawaiʻi
#> 12 Melo italiano
#> 13 Aapel Nordfriisk
#> 14 Maçã, Macieira português
#> 15 Яблоня домашняя русский
#> 16 Tarhaomenapuu suomi
#> 17 Elma Türkçe
#> 18 Яблуня домашня українська
#> 19 Pomaro vèneto- Please report any issues or bugs.
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