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Free APIs for famous people?

#help #api

Davide Bellone May 1, 2020 ・1 min read

Hi everyone!

Do you know any public API that returns info about famous people like artists, politicians, scientists and so on?

I'm only interested in their birth and death days, and maybe a short description of them.

Thanks!

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Gautam Mishra • May 1 '20

You can use MediaWiki API
mediaWiki.org/wiki/API:Main_page

Raphaël Pinson • May 1 '20

And there's a SPARQL search API: query.wikidata.org/

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