Feature request: Search via wikipedia url pasted/drag'n'dropped into the search box about wd HOT 2 OPEN

currently the search box does exactly what the wikidata website search box does. It calls this api endpoint:

https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=wbsearchentities&format=json&search=Q42&limit=10&errorformat=plaintext&language=en&uselang=en&type=item

If I enter the url into it it won't give me any results:

https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=wbsearchentities&format=json&search=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Adams&limit=10&errorformat=plaintext&language=en&uselang=en&type=item

I wouldn't like makeing it more complicated, then this.

But, as a fallback (when there are no results) and when it is a url, we could simply run all resolvers we usually have. That should have the intended efffect.

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If you want to do this, here are the important parts in the code:

this function resolves a url to a wikidata id:

You could call it here in case there are not results and the input is a url:

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