[Developers] Viewer source code?

[Jason Douglas]

On May 28, 2009, at 11:52 AM, Joseph Turian wrote:

> I see that the viewer for individual company pages draws together a
> lot of information, from the links within the company entities:
>
>   http://www.freebase.com/view/en/general_motors
>
> I would like to retrieve this full company information page, and
> augment it with more information. This would be easier than reading
> the MQL result and walking down the chain of information, and figuring
> out how to render it.
> Is there an easy way to get all the information on the page above?

There may eventually be a real "topic api", but for now one option
is to use an Acre script I put together awhile ago:

	http://libraries.freebaseapps.com/topic/en/general_motors
	source: http://acre.freebase.com/#app=/freebase/apps/ 
libraries&file=topic

It's not the fastest in the world and the output is certainly not as  
clean
as it should be, but it does the job.  It can act as either a web  
service
or as an acre library (require it, then call json_for_topic()).


> Is the source code for the viewer available?

No, but there's acre code around.  :-)  For example:

	http://topics.freebaseapps.com/topic/en/general_motors
	source: http://acre.freebase.com/#app=/user/jdouglas/view&file=topic

uses the above library.  It could be done much more simply as this  
template
was trying out a lot of other experiments, but that's an exercise left  
to the
reader.  :-)

Like all acre code, it's BSD-licensed so clone the app, save individual
files into another app, cut-and-paste, whatever.

-jason