[Developers] Incremental download

[Faye Harris]

Sumit wrote:
> Thanks Michele. 
> I see how one can apply the timestamp property as a condition. However 
> when I try the query below in query editor, I dont get any results.
Please retry the query without the following constraint:
       "type" : "/people/person"

Cookie Monster is not a /people/person, but a 
/fictional_universe/fictional_character. Once the mistyping was fixed, 
the condition as specified in the query no longer held. Thus you got no 
results.

-- Faye

>
> Btw, will the timestamp condition apply to only new records i.e. 
> topics applied after the given timestamp, OR to records that were 
> updated after the timestamp as well?
>
> Thanks again.
> Sumit
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Michele Berg 
> <michele.r.berg at gmail.com <mailto:michele.r.berg at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Sumit,
>
>     Below is a query that uses timestamp to limit the return values. 
>     It's querying links from Cookie Monster, but it does demonstrate
>     this usage of timestamp.  :)
>
>     hth,
>
>     Michele
>
>     [
>       {
>         "creator" : null,
>         "master_property" : null,
>         "operation" : null,
>         "source" : {
>           "guid" : "#9202a8c04000641f8000000000099dce",
>           "timestamp" : null,
>           "type" : "/people/person"
>         },
>         "target" : {
>           "id" : null,
>           "optional" : true,
>           "type" : []
>         },
>         "target_value" : null,
>         "timestamp" : null,
>         "timestamp>=" : "2008-10-23T22:23:00.000Z",
>         "type" : "/type/link",
>         "valid" : null
>       }
>     ]
>
>
>     On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 8:59 AM, Sumit <shah.sumit at gmail.com
>     <mailto:shah.sumit at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         Hi Freebasers,
>         We have built a simple utility that downloads movies,
>         tv_shows, etc. from by a simple mql query. Now we need to
>         update the info we already have.
>         Can I specify a timestamp in MQL, as in, download all movies
>         added or updated after Jan 1st 2009? So that our simple tool
>         will not have to downloading all topics under movies again and
>         check for the differential?
>
>         Sumit
>
>
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