[Developers] how to access to article/description?

Jason Douglas jason at metaweb.com
Mon Jan 14 19:01:26 UTC 2008


Articles are actually stored in a different repository and need to be  
retrieved with a separate call using the id property of article.  You  
can either get the raw HTML:
	http://www.freebase.com/api/trans/raw/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000038e04d

Or a text blurb:
	http://www.freebase.com/api/trans/blurb/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000038e04d?maxlength=300&break_paragraphs=true

-jason


On Jan 14, 2008, at 10:47 AM, 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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