Event Knowledge API
API change historyGet Events by Wikipedia Entity
Given a Wikipedia entity name, our service returns a list of related events sorted by event time. Each event is associated with dominant entities and the latest news.
Try itRequest
Request URL
Request parameters
-
string
The specific Wikipedia id to be queried on.
-
(optional)number
The $top query option requests the number of items in the queried collection to be included in the result.
-
(optional)number
The $skip query option requests the number of items in the queried collection that are to be skipped and not included in the result.
Request headers
Request body
Responses
200 OK
Succeed
Representations
{
"value": [
{
"eventId": "018928cf246b42b7a252f057ab7a92f7",
"relatedEntities": [],
"from": "2016-06-19T17:45:39.8787798Z",
"to": "2016-06-19T17:45:39.8787798Z",
"topDocument": {
"documentId": "4b8928cffadd01ac674d09ecc7401129",
"source": "IEEE Spectrum Energy Channel",
"publishDate": "2016-06-19T17:45:39.8787798Z",
"title": "20,000 Leagues Under the Cloud",
"summary": "Experts say Microsoft's Project Natick could give the world better online services by putting computer servers under the sea",
"url": "http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/telecom/internet/20000-leagues-under-the-cloud",
"entities": [
"Microsoft",
"Natick"
]
},
"documentCount": 1
}
]
}
404 Not Found
Resource not found
Representations
{
"statusCode": 404
"message": "Resource not found"
}
Code samples
@ECHO OFF
curl -v -X GET "https://api.labs.cognitive.microsoft.com/eventknowledge/v1.0/relatedevents?wikipediaid={wikipediaid}?$top={number}&$skip={number}"
-H "Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key: {subscription key}"
--data-ascii "{body}"
using System;
using System.Net.Http.Headers;
using System.Text;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Web;
namespace CSHttpClientSample
{
static class Program
{
static void Main()
{
MakeRequest();
Console.WriteLine("Hit ENTER to exit...");
Console.ReadLine();
}
static async void MakeRequest()
{
var client = new HttpClient();
var queryString = HttpUtility.ParseQueryString(string.Empty);
// Request headers
client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key", "{subscription key}");
// Request parameters
queryString["$top"] = "{number}";
queryString["$skip"] = "{number}";
var uri = "https://api.labs.cognitive.microsoft.com/eventknowledge/v1.0/relatedevents?wikipediaid={wikipediaid}&" + queryString;
var response = await client.GetAsync(uri);
}
}
}
// // This sample uses the Apache HTTP client from HTTP Components (http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-ga/)
import java.net.URI;
import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.client.HttpClient;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
import org.apache.http.client.utils.URIBuilder;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClients;
import org.apache.http.util.EntityUtils;
public class JavaSample
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
HttpClient httpclient = HttpClients.createDefault();
try
{
URIBuilder builder = new URIBuilder("https://api.labs.cognitive.microsoft.com/eventknowledge/v1.0/relatedevents?wikipediaid={wikipediaid}");
builder.setParameter("$top", "{number}");
builder.setParameter("$skip", "{number}");
URI uri = builder.build();
HttpGet request = new HttpGet(uri);
request.setHeader("Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key", "{subscription key}");
// Request body
StringEntity reqEntity = new StringEntity("{body}");
request.setEntity(reqEntity);
HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(request);
HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
if (entity != null)
{
System.out.println(EntityUtils.toString(entity));
}
}
catch (Exception e)
{
System.out.println(e.getMessage());
}
}
}
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>JSSample</title>
<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function() {
var params = {
// Request parameters
"$top": "{number}",
"$skip": "{number}",
};
$.ajax({
url: "https://api.labs.cognitive.microsoft.com/eventknowledge/v1.0/relatedevents?wikipediaid={wikipediaid}&" + $.param(params),
beforeSend: function(xhrObj){
// Request headers
xhrObj.setRequestHeader("Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key","{subscription key}");
},
type: "GET",
// Request body
data: "{body}",
})
.done(function(data) {
alert("success");
})
.fail(function() {
alert("error");
});
});
</script>
</body>
</html>
#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>
int main(int argc, const char * argv[])
{
NSAutoreleasePool * pool = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init];
NSString* path = @"https://api.labs.cognitive.microsoft.com/eventknowledge/v1.0/relatedevents?wikipediaid={wikipediaid}";
NSArray* array = @[
// Request parameters
@"entities=true",
@"$top={number}",
@"$skip={number}",
];
NSString* string = [array componentsJoinedByString:@"&"];
path = [path stringByAppendingFormat:@"?%@", string];
NSLog(@"%@", path);
NSMutableURLRequest* _request = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:path]];
[_request setHTTPMethod:@"GET"];
// Request headers
[_request setValue:@"{subscription key}" forHTTPHeaderField:@"Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key"];
// Request body
[_request setHTTPBody:[@"{body}" dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
NSURLResponse *response = nil;
NSError *error = nil;
NSData* _connectionData = [NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest:_request returningResponse:&response error:&error];
if (nil != error)
{
NSLog(@"Error: %@", error);
}
else
{
NSError* error = nil;
NSMutableDictionary* json = nil;
NSString* dataString = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:_connectionData encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
NSLog(@"%@", dataString);
if (nil != _connectionData)
{
json = [NSJSONSerialization JSONObjectWithData:_connectionData options:NSJSONReadingMutableContainers error:&error];
}
if (error || !json)
{
NSLog(@"Could not parse loaded json with error:%@", error);
}
NSLog(@"%@", json);
_connectionData = nil;
}
[pool drain];
return 0;
}
<?php
// This sample uses the Apache HTTP client from HTTP Components (http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-ga/)
require_once 'HTTP/Request2.php';
$request = new Http_Request2('https://api.labs.cognitive.microsoft.com/eventknowledge/v1.0/relatedevents?wikipediaid={wikipediaid}');
$url = $request->getUrl();
$headers = array(
// Request headers
'Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key' => '{subscription key}',
);
$request->setHeader($headers);
$parameters = array(
// Request parameters
'$top' => '{number}',
'$skip' => '{number}',
);
$url->setQueryVariables($parameters);
$request->setMethod(HTTP_Request2::METHOD_GET);
// Request body
$request->setBody("{body}");
try
{
$response = $request->send();
echo $response->getBody();
}
catch (HttpException $ex)
{
echo $ex;
}
?>
########### Python 2.7 #############
import httplib, urllib, base64
headers = {
# Request headers
'Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key': '{subscription key}',
}
params = urllib.urlencode({
# Request parameters
'$top': '{number}',
'$skip': '{number}',
})
try:
conn = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.labs.cognitive.microsoft.com')
conn.request("GET", "/eventknowledge/v1.0/relatedevents?wikipediaid={wikipediaid}&%s" % params, "{body}", headers)
response = conn.getresponse()
data = response.read()
print(data)
conn.close()
except Exception as e:
print("[Errno {0}] {1}".format(e.errno, e.strerror))
####################################
########### Python 3.2 #############
import http.client, urllib.request, urllib.parse, urllib.error, base64
headers = {
# Request headers
'Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key': '{subscription key}',
}
params = urllib.parse.urlencode({
# Request parameters
'$top': '{number}',
'$skip': '{number}',
})
try:
conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection('api.labs.cognitive.microsoft.com')
conn.request("GET", "/eventknowledge/v1.0/relatedevents?wikipediaid={wikipediaid}&%s" % params, "{body}", headers)
response = conn.getresponse()
data = response.read()
print(data)
conn.close()
except Exception as e:
print("[Errno {0}] {1}".format(e.errno, e.strerror))
####################################
require 'net/http'
uri = URI('https://api.labs.cognitive.microsoft.com/eventknowledge/v1.0/relatedevents?wikipediaid={wikipediaid}')
query = URI.encode_www_form({
# Request parameters
'$top' => '{number}',
'$skip' => '{number}'
})
if query.length > 0
if uri.query && uri.query.length > 0
uri.query += '&' + query
else
uri.query = query
end
end
request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri.request_uri)
# Request headers
request['Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key'] = '{subscription key}'
# Request body
request.body = "{body}"
response = Net::HTTP.start(uri.host, uri.port, :use_ssl => uri.scheme == 'https') do |http|
http.request(request)
end
puts response.body