[Developers] Freebase API

[John Giannandrea]

Hi
You do not need to use cookie auth to read from the API.
That was a restriction during alpha and it has been removed.
The documentation is about to be updated to reflect that.

You do still need to login to write, but that is a separate API call.
-jg

On Jul 14, 2008, at 2:53 AM, Shug Boabby wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm a little confused by some of the documentation on the Freebase
> API, and I was hoping somebody here could help me out. On the Metaweb
> tutorial http://www.freebase.com/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000544e13e
> it says "freebase.com queries require cookie-based authentication"...
> but I have been able to access the API without cookies. Is this still
> a restraint? Will this be revoked any time soon? I want to use
> something similar to http://code.google.com/p/freebase-suggest/ in a
> project and I would very much like to know an answer before committing
> to using freebase. I really really hope that the restriction has been
> lifted, as this would save me from having to setup a local database of
> the freebase data (and keep it up to date).
>
> -- 
> Shug
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