[Developers] how to access to article/description?

Jonathan W. Lowe jlowe at giswebsite.com
Mon Jan 14 18:58:01 UTC 2008


Lisa,

See section 4.8 of the Freebase manual
(http://www.freebase.com/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000544e139) on
how to use the 'trans' service to access content in the 'BLOB
store' (binary large object) of Freebase.

Jonathan

On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 10:47 -0800, lisa zorn wrote:
> Hi,
> My apologies if this is a dumb question, but how do I access the
> article/ description for something?  
> 
> 
> I was looking at guid 9202a8c04000641f800000000038e046, which is Sia
> Furler; her page shows a description that appears to be from
> wikipedia: "Sia Kate Isobelle Furler (pronounced ...)"
> 
> 
> But my query, 
> {
> 
>   "query" : [
> 
>     {
> 
>       "article" : {
> 
>         "*" : []
> 
>       },
> 
>       "guid" : "#9202a8c04000641f800000000038e046",
> 
>       "type" : "/common/topic"
> 
>     }
> 
>   ]
> 
> }
> 
> 
> Gives me an article with guid 9202a8c04000641f800000000038e04d
> 
> which has a source_uri of "http://wp/en/875477" but I can see no other
> data.  How do I get to the article text?
> 
> 
> Thanks much,
> 
> -lisa
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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