[Developers] Get Freebase id from Wikipedia link

[Vivek Puri]

okay so playing around and i came up with the following query:

"article" : {
      "*" : []
    },
    "guid" : "#9202a8c04000641f80000000083b4ce6",
    "type" : "/common/topic"


So i try to get the blurb using the resulting article guid:
http://www.freebase.com/api/trans/raw/guid/9202a8c04000641f80000000083b4cea

I am getting an error: "sequence item 0: expected string, tuple found"


What does that mean?

Thanks
Vivek

On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 3:54 PM, Vivek Puri <vp at startupsquad.com> wrote:

> 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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>
>
>
> --
> Vivek Puri
> GTalk: vp at vivekpuri.com
>



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