---
id: "britannica_id"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: false
categories: ["texts", "publishing"]
langs: ["en"]
quality: 90
url: "https://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/britannica_id"
---

# Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID (`britannica_id`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

Path of an article in Encyclopædia Britannica Online after https://www.britannica.com/: a type such as topic, place, biography, event, science or art, a slash and a name with hyphens, as in place/Moscow. The regexp is the format of Wikidata property P1417 and matches all 3000 sampled values. One subject may have several paths, because Britannica renames articles and keeps the old paths as redirects.

- Personal data (PII): no
- Categories: Texts and  articles (texts), Publishing and print (publishing)
- Countries: global
- Languages: English (en)
- Classification: identifier

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

```
^(?:topic|facts|place|event|science|technology|plant|animal|biography|sports|art|money)(?:/[^\s/]+)+$
```

## Examples

- `place/Moscow` — Moscow
- `biography/Dmitri-Mendeleev` — Dmitri Mendeleev
- `https://www.britannica.com/place/Moscow` (invalid example) — A URL, not the ID

## Mappings

- wikidata: `P1417`

## Translations

- ru: Идентификатор статьи Британской энциклопедии: Путь статьи в онлайн-версии Британской энциклопедии, например place/Moscow.

## Sources

- wikidata: <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1417>
- wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica>

## Quality

Score 90/100. Missing: detector coverage.

JSON: <https://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/britannica_id.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/any/texts/britannica_id.yaml>