# wikibase-cli
The [Command-line interface](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command-line_interface) interface to [Wikibase](https://wikiba.se) instances.

This tool is mostly a CLI interface to the JS modules [wikibase-edit](https://www.npmjs.com/package/wikibase-edit) and [wikibase-sdk](https://www.npmjs.com/package/wikibase-sdk), + some treats for the CLI lovers. And a batch mechanism to process millions of edits.

It was primarily developed to target [Wikidata](https://wikidata.org), but as then been decoupled to support any Wikibase instance.

This project received [a Wikimedia Project Grant](https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/WikidataJS).

           

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## Summary
- [Changelog](CHANGELOG.md)
- [Dependencies](#dependencies)
  - [General](#general)
  - [Per feature](#per-feature)
- [Installation](#installation)
  - [Via NPM](#via-npm)
  - [Via Docker](#via-docker)
- [Commands](#commands)
  - [Read operations](docs/read_operations.md)
  - [Write operations](docs/write_operations.md)
  - [Config](docs/config.md)
- [See Also](#see-also)
- [You may also like](#you-may-also-like)
- [License](#license)

## Changelog
See [CHANGELOG.md](CHANGELOG.md) for version info

## Dependencies

### General
* [NodeJs](https://nodejs.org) **>= v8** (recommended way to install it: use the awesome [NVM](https://github.com/creationix/nvm))
* [Git](https://git-scm.com/)

### Per feature
* to use the clipboard option: see [copy-paste](https://github.com/xavi-/node-copy-paste#node-copy-paste) dependencies

## Installation
### via npm
```sh
npm install -g wikibase-cli
```
Installing globally allows to make the command `wb` (and `wd`, the Wikidata-bound verion of `wb`) accessible from your shell `$PATH`.

If you later need to update the package to a different version, you can run the same command but specifying the version you want (here `12.2.0`)
```sh
npm install -g wikibase-cli@12.2.0
```
or just request the latest version
```sh
npm install -g wikibase-cli@latest
```

### via docker
```sh
# Might require to be run with sudo depending on your Docker installation
docker run --rm -t maxlath/wikibase-cli
# You can make an alias out of it:
alias wb="docker run --rm -it maxlath/wikibase-cli"
# You're then ready to use it as in the documentation examples
wb label Q1
```
That would work, but all operations cached data (such as the list of all properties) would need to re-fetch those data for each operations, and all write operations would require you to re-enter your credentials everytime. To work around this, you can allow this container to persist some files on your system, using shared volumes:
```sh
mkdir -p $HOME/.config/wikibase-cli $HOME/.cache/wikibase-cli
alias wb='docker run --rm -v "$HOME/.config/wikibase-cli:/root/.config/wikibase-cli" -v "$HOME/.cache/wikibase-cli:/root/.cache/wikibase-cli" -it maxlath/wikibase-cli'
```

> NB: Beware that using wikibase-cli through a Docker container has a performance cost of something like 1s per command, so if you need to run many commands (for instance in a script to make mass edit on the desired Wikibase instance), you should probably rather use the NPM package directly

## Commands

### Read operations
See [Read operations](docs/read_operations.md)

![wd summary Q1](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/1596934/24504647/5b17135c-1557-11e7-971e-b13648bdc604.gif)

### Write operations
See [Write operations](docs/write_operations.md)

### Config
Allows to persist options

See [Config](docs/config.md)

## See Also
* [wikibase-sdk](https://www.npmjs.com/package/wikibase-sdk): A javascript tool suite to query and work with Wikibase data, heavily used by wikibase-cli
* [wikibase-edit](https://www.npmjs.com/package/wikibase-edit): Edit Wikibase from NodeJS, used in wikibase-cli for all [write operations](docs/write_operations.md)
* [wikibase-dump-filter](https://npmjs.com/package/wikibase-dump-filter): Filter and format a newline-delimited JSON stream of Wikibase entities
* [wikidata-subset-search-engine](https://github.com/inventaire/entities-search-engine/tree/wikidata-subset-search-engine): Tools to setup an ElasticSearch instance fed with subsets of Wikidata
* [wikidata-taxonomy](https://github.com/nichtich/wikidata-taxonomy): A command-line tool to extract taxonomies from Wikidata
* [import-wikidata-dump-to-couchdb](https://github.com/maxlath/import-wikidata-dump-to-couchdb): Import a subset or a full Wikidata dump into a CouchDB database
* [Other Wikidata external tools](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Tools/External_tools)

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## License
[MIT](LICENSE.md)
