---
license: apache-2.0
pretty_name: 2009scape wiki knowledge base
language:
  - en
tags:
  - 2009scape
  - runescape
  - knowledge-graph
  - sqlite
  - mcp
size_categories:
  - 10K<n<100K
viewer: false
---

# 2009scape wiki knowledge base

The built dataset behind
[2009scape-wiki-api](https://github.com/arsalan-anwari/2009scape-wiki-api): the raw
2009scape game sources (items, NPCs, shops, drop tables, quests) turned into one
immutable, searchable SQLite file, served over an HTTP JSON API and an MCP server.

Nothing here is edited by hand. Every release is written by that repository's pipeline
and uploaded whole, so a given `data_version` is one file that can be served again
later.

> This project is a work in progress. Items, NPCs, shops, drop tables and quests are in.
> Locations, scenery and quest rewards are staged but nothing reads them yet, so the
> dataset has no answers about them.

## What is in it

| file | what it holds |
| --- | --- |
| `knowledge.sqlite3` | the dataset a deployment serves |
| `tests/knowledge.sqlite3` | the hand made build the test suite uses |

Both files carry the same schema, so anything that reads one reads the other.

## What a build holds

Counted from build `2026.08.07.122241`, which is the first one made from the whole game
rather than a sample of it:

| kind | rows |
| --- | --- |
| items | 11,990, of which 3,192 are noted and 220 bound |
| npcs | 8,033 |
| shops | 243 |
| quests | 150 |
| relationships | 58,504: 54,505 drops, 2,461 sells, 1,276 uses_ammunition, 262 staffed_by |
| prices | 797,362 daily values over 7,057 items, 2024-06-08 to 2026-08-01 |

Around 12,700 entities carry the examine text the game shows, and shop lines now carry
what the shop charges at full stock.

## Reading it

```python
import sqlite3
from huggingface_hub import hf_hub_download

path = hf_hub_download(
    "arsalan-anwari/2009scape-wiki-api-data",
    "knowledge.sqlite3",
    repo_type="dataset",
)
db = sqlite3.connect(f"file:{path}?mode=ro", uri=True)
print(dict(db.execute("select key, value from meta")))
print(db.execute("select name from entity where type = 'item' limit 5").fetchall())
```

The file is a plain SQLite database with an FTS5 index, so `sqlite3` on the command
line reads it too, and nothing in this repository has to be installed to look at it.

## Schema

| table | what it holds |
| --- | --- |
| `entity` | one row per item, NPC, shop, quest or location, with its slug, description, icon, JSON attributes and where it came from |
| `edge` | one row per relationship between two entities: `drops`, `sells`, `staffed_by`, `rewards`, `uses_ammunition`, `located_in`, `part_of` |
| `entity_alias` | retired slugs, shorthand and alternate names, so a name that moved still resolves |
| `entity_fts` | the FTS5 index behind search and near name matching |
| `price_history` | daily Grand Exchange values per item, dated ISO-8601 |
| `meta` | which build this is |

The schema is wider than any build so far. A relationship or an entity kind the tables
allow is simply empty until a source is read for it.

Variants are recorded rather than dropped: a noted, bound, placeholder or duplicate row
points at its canonical entity through `canonical_id`, and `visibility` says whether a
row is published or hidden. A variant may only point at a real entity, and never at
another variant, so one hop always lands. Every row names its `source`, `source_file`
and `game_version`.

## Which build this is

`meta` carries five keys, which is how a client tells builds apart:

| key | what it means |
| --- | --- |
| `data_version` | the build's identity, and what the API reports and caches against |
| `content_hash` | the hash of the content, equal for two builds that say the same thing |
| `schema_version` | the shape of the tables above |
| `game_version` | the game sources the build was made from |
| `built_at` | when it was written |

## Where it comes from

Built from the 2009scape server's own configuration files, its code, its game cache,
Grand Exchange price snapshots, and a small set of hand written overlays. Each row says
which of those it came from in its `source` column.

The cache is the newest of them. The pipeline decodes it during staging, the same way
the game's own client does, so names, examine text, values, alchemy values, buy limits,
weights and the note and lend variants come from the game rather than from a guess. How
much of a cache may fail to decode is written down per source, and a build that goes
over its allowance stops instead of shipping a quieter dataset.

The pipeline and this card are Apache-2.0; the game data it derives from belongs to the
[2009scape](https://2009scape.org) project and is covered by that project's terms.