How to get a list of all Wikidata properties?

Question

What is the Wikidata API equivalent to this page which lists all known Wikidata properties? I would like to search for a property, e.g. 'doctoral advisor', and get back P184.

A similar function exists for items, but I can't seem to find the equivalent for properties.

Answer 1

Using action=wbsearchentities with type=property should do. Wikidata API doc is here, search for "=wb" to get the Wikidata-specific functions.

Answer 2

Update: thank to @nerab's answer, I updated wikidata-properties-dumper to use Quarry SQL results: that's indead much cleaner :)

Update 2: Quarry wasn't that flexible, I moved to use a SPARQL query and wrapped that in a Wikidata CLI command: wd props

I wrote a small script to query all properties with wikidata API's action=wbgetentities. It generate a json file with

key: value

being

property Pid: property label in the request language

I published the outputs for a few languages and could do for other language on request until there is an official (and cleaner) answer for this need

Answer 3

Thanks to the comments in @maxlath's project, I found Quarry.

A list of all Wikidata properties can be fetched from

http://quarry.wmflabs.org/run/45013/output/1/json

This particular list is in English, but the query can be modified for other languages, too.

Answer 4

You can use this SPARQL query: it returns property name, description and comma separated also known as labels from English language:

SELECT ?property ?propertyLabel ?propertyDescription (GROUP_CONCAT(DISTINCT(?altLabel); separator = ", ") AS ?altLabel_list) WHERE {
    ?property a wikibase:Property .
    OPTIONAL { ?property skos:altLabel ?altLabel . FILTER (lang(?altLabel) = "en") }
    SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "en" .}
 }
GROUP BY ?property ?propertyLabel ?propertyDescription
LIMIT 5000