[Developers] Steps Toward a Complete History Export in Freebase

[Kurt Bollacker]

That won't show deleted or updated links.  In fact I think it's
impossible to get the history without significant post processing of
MQL results.  I believe there are outstanding bugs related to this.

								Kurt :-)


On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 04:38:00PM -0700, Kirrily Robert wrote:
> On May 29, 2009, at 4:32 PM, Kirrily Robert wrote:
> 
> > On May 29, 2009, at 3:19 PM, Hostile Fork wrote:
> >> The good news is that there's a very simple solution to all of this.
> >> Just establish a REST API which returns all the user modifications
> >> that Freebase records for itself between (time1) and (time2).  It's
> >> perfectly fine to require a login for these queries, and to establish
> >> quotas...so long as these are not deliberately designed to cripple a
> >> mirroring effort.
> >
> > Err... you can already do this with our existing REST API!  You just
> > need to write MQL queries about links, I think.
> 
> 
> Here's some MQL that will help:
> 
> [{
>    "type":         "/type/link",
>    "source": {
>      "*": null
>    },
>    "target": {
>      "*": null
>    },
>    "b:timestamp>": "2009-05-29",
>    "timestamp":    null,
>    "sort":         "-timestamp"
> }]
> 
> K.
> 
> 
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> Kirrily Robert
> Freebase Community Director
> kirrily at metaweb.com
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> 
> 
> 
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