Wikidata
FreeLiveLast verified 24 Sept 2026
Structured facts and relationships about people, places and concepts from Wikimedia's public knowledge base.
Example request
curl -s 'https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=wbgetentities&ids=Q42&format=json'
Free tier, in plain English
Completely free and keyless. Wikimedia asks heavy users to identify themselves with a User-Agent and follow its API etiquette instead of publishing a fixed daily cap.
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