[Developers] Bulk download

[Vijay Ramesh]

I'm not sure what the "obvious problems" you refer to are (if you can be more specific, we might be able to help there), but you could easily use the type-specific tsvs (http://download.freebase.com/datadumps/2008-07-01/freebase-datadump-tsv.tar.bz2) and your scripting language of choice to pick and choose what you wanted & insert/update the information into MySql/MSSQL/BDB/whatever you wanted to use.  For that matter, you could use the link export tsv (http://download.freebase.com/datadumps/2008-07-01/freebase-datadump-quadruples.tsv.bz2) to build objects with the info you want, and then store those objects into your DB.

>From what I know, no matter how you limit the data you get (for example, downloading as a saved view as Shawn described) you're still going to have to use a scripting language to turn those tsv lines into database insert/update statements.

Cheers,
 Vijay


On 9/9/08 2:21 PM, "Shawn Simister" <narphorium at gmail.com> wrote:

If you can represent the data that you want to download as a Saved View <http://blog.freebase.com/2008/07/23/save-me-storing-filtered-views-on-freebase/>  then you can click the Use Results button to get a custom TSV file.

Rishav Rastogi wrote:

Hi,

I want to download information(type constrained) from freebase and store it in a db.

I have already seen the TSV dumps but they have a few obvious problems.

Is there a tool provided Freebase which can be used to import the information to be stored in a db other than Mql which has obvious problems of query timeouts.

Thanks

Rishav



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