[Developers] Get Freebase id from Wikipedia link

Bryan Cheung bryan.cheung at metaweb.com
Tue May 20 19:31:47 UTC 2008


Alternatively, you can use the WP ID (curid):

{
   "guid" : null,
   "key" : {
     "namespace" : "/wikipedia/en_id",
     "value" : "17316124"
   }
}

Bryan

On May 20, 2008, at 12:29 PM, Brian Karlak wrote:

>
> You can do a MQL lookup on /wikipedia/en key.  However, you need to  
> urlescape the the punctuation in the key:
>
>   {
> 	"guid" : null,
> 	"id" : "/wikipedia/en/Taz_$0028singer$0029"
>   }
>
> returns:
>
>   {
>     "guid" : "#9202a8c04000641f80000000083b4ce6",
>     "id" : "/wikipedia/en/Taz_$0028singer$0029"
>   }
>
> Brian
>
> On May 20, 2008, at 12:14 PM, Vivek Puri wrote:
>
>> While it is possible to determine the url of a wikipedia article  
>> for a given Freebase topic id, how do i go about the other way  
>> round. Let's say i want to find the topic id in freebase for the  
>> following wikipedia url: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ 
>> Taz_(singer) . What should be the api call to do that?
>>
>> -- 
>> Vivek Puri
>> GTalk: vp at vivekpuri.com  
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