[Developers] Get Freebase id from Wikipedia link

[Vivek Puri]

And how do i get freebase topic from that(excuse me for asking the lame
question, but after not having made api calls in couple of months, i am
kinda rusty as to how to get around the system.)

Vivek

On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 3:28 PM, Christopher R. Maden <crism at metaweb.com>
wrote:

> Vivek Puri <vp at startupsquad.com> 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)<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taz_%28singer%29>
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taz_%28singer%29>.
> > What should be the api call to do that?
>
> You need to encode any non-ASCII characters as $hhhh where hhhh is the
> Unicode number for that character.  Then turn spaces into underscores.
>
> Taz_$0028singer$0029
>
> Then you can look for that key in the (in this case) English Wikipedia
> namespace:
>
> {"key":{"value":"Taz_$0028singer$0029",
> "namespace":"/wikipedia/en"}}
>
> or just make an ID out of it:
>
> {"id":"/wikipedia/en/Taz_$0028singer$0029"}
>
> ~Chris
> --
> Christopher R. Maden
> Data Architect
> Metaweb Technologies, Inc.
> <URL: http://www.metaweb.com/ >
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