[Developers] Get Freebase id from Wikipedia link

[Aseem Mohanty]

Hi Vivek.

That basically means that the blurb is not available. Unfortunately due
to a bug the error message is quite cryptic and unhelpful. This has
been fixed and will make it to freebase soon. 

AM

On Tue, 20 May 2008 16:54:15 -0400
"Vivek Puri" <vp at startupsquad.com> wrote:

# 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
# >
# 
# 
# 
# -- 
# Vivek Puri
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# 


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AM