How to retrieve a list using Wikidata's web API?

Question

I need to simply retrieve this footballers list in JSON format :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_footballers_in_England_by_number_of_league_appearances

So i'm trying out this wikidata query ( with the wikidata ID linked to this page):

https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=wbgetentities&sites=enwiki&ids=Q6620948

But i can see no footballer name in the result , only a few descriptions, that's all !

Answer 1

That list isn't actually stored in Wikidata. It's only stored as human edited text on the Wikipedia page.

You can access that content by either using the Wikipedia API or data dumps. You could also just use generic web scraping tools.