[Developers] help - MQL to query by type and get all types

Scott Meyer sm at metaweb.com
Wed Mar 18 20:43:58 UTC 2009


David Dennis wrote:
> Thanks for clearing this up.  I lost interest in working on integrating
> Freebase with my site because I spent hours trying to figure out how to
> do this.

Much of this is covered in:

http://www.freebase.com/view/en/schema_introspection_cookbook

I'm sorry that our documentation was hard to find.  It took me
a while and I work here...  Navigational difficulties aside,
we understand that developing queries is currently too hard
and we're working on making it much easier.  Thanks for the feedback.

> If I might make a suggestion, a good straightforward intro to give
> developers would be example queries for:
> 
> 1) How to get all topics of a certain name
> 2) How to get all types for a topic
> 3) How to get all properties for a type
> 4) How to get all topics assigned as values for a property

Those are great suggestions, I'll make sure that these examples get added.

-Scott


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