[Developers] Logging into freebase using API and long username/password

[Gordon Mackenzie]

Every time the Sandbox refresh occurs, all accounts created specifically for Sandbox are wiped away.

Conversely, all accounts created on Freebase in the next 7 days will not be usable on Sandbox until the next data refresh from Freebase occurs, approximately at around 3pm-7pm PST USA (+8 GMT), Mon July 20th.

You can't change your username, ever.

You can change your password, but you would have gotten an email to that effect.

You can recover your password and username by the password reset (entering the email address you created your account with).

     https://www.freebase.com/signin/recoverPassword?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Alec Flett" <alecf at metaweb.com>
To: "For discussions about MQL, Freebase API and apps built on Freebase" <developers at freebase.com>
Sent: Monday, July 13, 2009 6:11:55 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
Subject: Re: [Developers] Logging into freebase using API and long username/password

One possibility: did you change your password on sandbox-freebase.com,  
and not on freebase.com proper? At the moment, these two systems  
actually have separate authentication... (though I think sandbox- 
freebase.com has been refreshed from freebase.com in the last few hours)

Alec



On Jul 13, 2009, at 9:47 AM, Matthew Chan wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
>
> I'm approaching the production stage of my web app and I recently
> changed from my own user/password, to a permanent user/pass for this
> project.
>
> I'm not sure why, but it stopped logging in when I changed the
> user/pass. The exact error returned is "Invalid username or password".
>
> I'm fairly sure that the code works, because it doesn't present any
> problem with my original username and password. Also, a 'curl -d
> 'username=***' -d 'password=***'
> http://www.freebase.com/api/account/login' doesn't work with the new
> login credentials.
>
> The only differences I can think of are that the account was created
> fairly recently (thursday) and that the username and password are
> significantly longer this time.
>
> Thanks in advance for any replies,
> Matt
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