https://github.com/ropensci/wikitaxa

taxonomy data from Wikipedia/Wikidata/Wikispecies
https://github.com/ropensci/wikitaxa

r r-package rstats taxize taxonomy wikipedia-api wikispecies

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taxonomy data from Wikipedia/Wikidata/Wikispecies

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/ropensci/wikitaxa
• Owner: ropensci
• License: other
• Created: 2016-06-16T17:56:58.000Z (almost 10 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2025-07-24T22:28:13.000Z (11 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-08-02T18:18:16.685Z (10 months ago)
• Topics: r, r-package, rstats, taxize, taxonomy, wikipedia-api, wikispecies
• Language: R
• Homepage: https://docs.ropensci.org/wikitaxa
• Size: 2.48 MB
• Stars: 21
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 4
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.Rmd
  • Changelog: NEWS.md
  • Contributing: .github/CONTRIBUTING.md
  • License: LICENSE
  • Code of conduct: CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
  • Codemeta: codemeta.json

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wikitaxa

========

```{r echo=FALSE}

knitr::opts_chunk$set(

  warning = FALSE,

  message = FALSE,

  collapse = TRUE,

  comment = "#>"

)

```

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`wikitaxa` - taxonomy data from Wikipedia/Wikidata/Wikispecies

`wikitaxa` docs: https://docs.ropensci.org/wikitaxa/

See also the taxize book: https://books.ropensci.org/taxize/

### Low level API

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()`

### High level API

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()`

## Installation

CRAN version

```{r eval=FALSE}

install.packages("wikitaxa")

```

Dev version

```{r eval=FALSE}

remotes::install_github("ropensci/wikitaxa")

```

```{r}

library('wikitaxa')

```

## Contributors

* [Ethan Welty](https://github.com/ezwelty)

* [Scott Chamberlain](https://github.com/sckott)

## Meta

* Please [report any issues or bugs](https://github.com/ropensci/wikitaxa/issues).

* License: MIT

* Get citation information for `wikitaxa` in R doing `citation(package = 'wikitaxa')`

* Please note that this project is released with a [Contributor Code of Conduct][coc]. By participating in this project you agree to abide by its terms.

[![ropensci](https://ropensci.org/public_images/github_footer.png)](https://ropensci.org)

[coc]: https://github.com/ropensci/wikitaxa/blob/master/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md