[Developers] autosuggest api?

[Tim Sturge]

There currently isn't any difference in behaviour between prefix= and a trailing wildcard, although this may change in the future if we identify use-cases where different behaviour would be desirable. If you want a prefix search I recommend the prefix= argument.

The /api/service/autocomplete is something we use internally to provide autocomplete results in the Freebase.com UI. As such it takes a variety of undocumented parameters which change its behaviour for specific UI needs. We also try out various bleeding edge things so the interface is much less stable than /api/service/search.

Tim
 
----- Original Message ----
From: "Augusto Callejas" <acallejas at appliedminds.com>
To: developers at freebase.com
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 1:32:31 PM (GMT-0800) America/Los_Angeles
Subject: Re: [Developers] autosuggest api?

hi-

does a query with a prefixed "*":

  /api/service/search?query=Tom*

differ from a prefix search:

  /api/service/search?prefix=Tom

also, how does a prefix search differ from the autocomplete service:

  /api/service/autocomplete

thanks,
augusto.


On 1/15/08 1:12 PM, "Jason Douglas" <jason at metaweb.com> wrote:

> It uses the search web service, which I don't believe documentation
> has been posted on yet.  However, there is a jQuery plugin that gives
> you the whole UI as well:
> http://code.google.com/p/freebase-suggest/
> 
> If you do want to use the webservice directly, there is a little
> documentation on the service itself  in the comments (ac_path &
> ac_param):
> http://freebase-suggest.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/src/suggest.js
> 
> -jason
> 
> 
> On Jan 15, 2008, at 12:59 PM, Augusto Callejas wrote:
> 
>> hi-
>> 
>> does the autosuggest field in the upper right:
>> 
>> http://www.freebase.com/signin/
>> 
>> use the mqlread service api directly?
>> if not, what read service api does it use?
>> any documenation on this?
>> 
>> thanks,
>> augusto.
>> 
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