Freebase Geo is an extension of Freebase.js

Freebase.js is a fantastic freebase / node module created by Spencer Kelly. This module is an update for freebase's / google's new geosearch api.

• Freebase is a very masculine but complicated human-curated database.
• Nodejs is a straight-talkin language that takes no guff

Giddyup

    npm install freebase

then:

    var freebase=require('freebase');
    freebase.description('tom cruise', [options], [callback])
    //"Tom Cruise, is an American film actor.."

Showin' off

it's built to be as flexible as possible. all methods can handle the same things:

    freebase.sentence("/en/thom_yorke")//freebase link
    freebase.weblinks("thom yorke")//search term
    freebase.wikipedia_categories("http://www.myspace.com/thomyorkemusic")//weblink
    freebase.search({"name":"thom yorke", "id":"/en/thom_yorke"})//freebase object
    freebase.notable(["/en/radiohead","thom yorke"])//array of stuff

this properly handles many asynchronous requests, rate-limiting them to 10-at-a-time.

    freebase.images(["johny greenwood", "thom yorke", "marvin gaye"], {max:10}, console.log)

this is pretty clever i'd say:

    freebase.sentence("meatloaf", {type:"/food/food"}, console.log)

and when you're hacking in the console:

$ freebase sentence "thom yorke"

In the friggin broswer

  <script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.js"></script>
  <script src="https://raw.github.com/caolan/async/master/lib/async.js"></script>
  <script src="http://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/underscore.js/1.4.4/underscore-min.js"></script>
  <script src="https://raw.github.com/spencermountain/Freebase.js/master/client_side/freebase.min.js"></script>
  <script>
  $(document).ready(function(){
    function show(r){
      $('body').append(r)
    }
    $.freebase.sentence("tony hawk",{},show)
  })
</script>

MQLwrite

  cd mqlwrite
  npm install googleapis request

add your client ID and Client Secret to the file

  node mqlwrite_example.js

this will take you through the steps of authenticating and making a write to freebase.

Basic methods

####MQLread API Books about planets:

    var query=[{
                "type":  "/astronomy/planet",
                "name":  null,
                "/book/book_subject/works": []
               }]​
    freebase.mqlread(query, {}, function(r){console.log(r)})

####Pagination Every Tornado, ever

      query=[{
              "type":"/base/disaster2/tornado",
              "name":null
             }]
      freebase.paginate(query, {max:400}, console.log)

####Search API Hockey players named 'doug'

    freebase.search("doug",{type: "/ice_hockey/hockey_player"}, console.log)

####Description API First paragraph of the wikipedia article:

     freebase.description("mike myers", {}, console.log)
     freebase.description("http://myspace.com/u2", {}, console.log)

####Topic API A nicely treated output of all of a topic's data:

     freebase.topic("mike myers", {}, console.log)
     freebase.topic("http://myspace.com/u2", {}, console.log)

####Notable-types The most accurate, or notable type for a topic:

     freebase.notable("canada", {}, console.log)
     -> {id:"/location/country", name:"Country"}

Sugar

####Grammar Which pronoun, tense, article and gender to use for this topic

    freebase.grammar("washing machine", {}, console.log)
       -> { plural: true,
            gender: null,
            article: 'a',
            pronoun: 'they',
            copula: 'are' }
    freebase.grammar(["prince harry", "miranda july"], {}, console.log)
       /* [ { plural: false,
              gender: 'male',
              article: 'a',
              pronoun: 'he',
              copula: 'is' },
            { plural: false,
              gender: 'female',
              article: 'a',
              pronoun: 'she',
              copula: 'is' } ]
            */

####Related Topics Similar topics to this topic

    freebase.related("toronto", {}, function(r){
        console.log(r.map(function(v){return v.name}))
      })
      -> /* Toronto FC
          Toronto Maple Leafs
          Toronto Argonauts
          North York
          Toronto Marlies*/

####Safe-Lookup A common-sense search that only matches when confident:

    freebase.lookup("tom green", {}, console.log)
    freebase.lookup(["toronto","suddenly susan"], {}, console.log)

####SameAs links sameAs weblinks for a topic, or url

    freebase.same_as_links("toronto", {}, console.log)
    freebase.same_as_links("http://toronto.ca", {}, console.log)

####First Sentence The first sentence from a wikipedia article:

    freebase.sentence("tokyo", {}, console.log)

####Graph-analysis Graph-type queries on topics, dancing over tough values and mediators:

      freebase.graph("ubuntu", {}, console.log )
      freebase.outgoing("ubuntu", {}, console.log )
      freebase.incoming("ubuntu", {}, console.log )

####Schema-agnostic queries A list of topics in a 'is-a' type of collection:

     freebase.list("earthquakes", {}, console.log)

####Translation Translated names for topics:

     freebase.translate("radiohead", {lang:"/lang/ko"}, console.log)
     -> 라디오헤드

####Encoding Encode a string for inclusion in a freebase id/key/whatever

    freebase.mql_encode("Aarno Yrjö-Koskinen")
    ->"Aarno_Yrj$00F6-Koskinen"

####Schema introspection Find-out relevant information for a type or property:

     freebase.schema_introspection("politician", {}, console.log)
     ->/* { domain: { name: 'Government', id: '/government' },
          is_compound_value: false,
          is_commons: 'Published',
          equivalent_topic: { name: 'Politician', id: '/en/politician' },
          topic_count: 90971,
          property_count: 0,
          included_types: [ { name: 'Person', id: '/people/person' },
                  { name: 'Topic', id: '/common/topic' } ],
          ...*/

##Wikipedia

####Wikipedia-page Get the wikipedia link for a topic

     freebase.wikipedia_page("tony hawk", {}, console.log)
     ->// http://en.wikipedia/wiki/Tony_Hawk

####Wikipedia categories Get the wikipedia categories for this topic's article

     freebase.wikipedia_categories("tony hawk", {}, console.log)

####Wikipedia topic-links Get the freebase topics linked-to in this topic's wikipedia article

     freebase.wikipedia_links("tony hawk", {}, console.log)
      -> /*[{ id: '/wikipedia/en/Baker_Skateboards',  name: 'Baker Skateboards' },
          { id: '/wikipedia/en/Bam_Margera', name: 'Bam Margera' },
          { id: '/wikipedia/en/Barting_Over', name: 'Barting Over' },
          { id: '/wikipedia/en/Blink-182', name: 'Blink-182' },
          ...*/

####Wikipedia external-links Get the webpages linked-to from this topic's article

     freebase.wikipedia_external_links("tony hawk", {}, console.log)
      -> /*[{ url: 'http://skate.quiksilver.com/riders-detail/',
            domain: 'skate.quiksilver.com' },
          { url: 'http://skateboarding.transworld.net/1000095781/news/tony-hawk-on-theeve-trucks/',
            domain: 'skateboarding.transworld.net' },
            ...*/

##Geographical ####Geolocation Get the lat/lng for a topic

    freebase.geolocation("calgary", {}, console.log)
    -> //{ latitude: 51.0544444444, longitude: -114.066944444 }

####Nearby List topics near this geolocation

    freebase.nearby("cn tower", {type:"/food/restaurant"}, console.log)
      -> /*[{id: '/en/sneaky_dees',
           name: 'Sneaky Dee\'s',
          },
          {id: '/en/keg_mansion',
           name: 'Keg Mansion',
          }
          ...*/

####Inside List topics inside of this location

    freebase.inside("montreal")

####Place-data From a geo-coordinate, find out its City, Province, Country, and timezone

    freebase.place_data({lat:51.545414293637286,lng:-0.07589578628540039}, {}, console.log)

##Method-list

• mqlread -interface to freebase's mql api
• lookup -freebase search with filters to ensure only a confident, unambiguous result
• get_id -like freebase.lookup but satisfied with an id
• topic -topic api
• search -regular search api
• paginate -get all of the results to your query
• grammar -get the proper pronoun to use for a topic eg. he/she/they/it
• same_as_links -turns a url into a freebase topic and list its same:as links
• translate -return specific language title for a topic
• image -get a url for image href of on this topic
• description -get a text blurb from freebase
• notable -get a topic's notable type
• sentence -get the first sentence of a topic description
• list -get a list of topics in a type
• place_data -from a geo-coordinate, get the town, province, country, and timezone for it
• incoming -get any incoming data to this topic, ignoring cvt types
• outgoing -return all outgoing links for a topic, traversing cvt types
• graph -return all outgoing and incoming links for a topic
• related -get similar topics to a topic
• is_a -get a list of identifiers for a topic
• question -give a topic and a property, and get a list of results
• dig -transitive query on a specific property, maximum 3-ply
• gallery -list of topics with images
• wordnet -query wordnet via freebase
• transitive -do a transitive-query, like all rivers in canada, using freebase metaschema
• geolocation -lat/long for a topic
• nearby -list of topics nearby a location
• inside -list of topics inside a location
• wikipedia_page -get a url for wikipedia based on this topic
• wikipedia_categories -get the wikipedia categories for a topic
• wikipedia_links -outgoing links from this wikipedia page, converted to freebase ids
• wikipedia_external_links -outgoing links from this wikipedia page, converted to freebase ids
• schema_introspection -common lookups for types and properties
• property_introspection -common lookups for freebase property data
• property_lookup -lookup soft property matches, like 'birthday' vs 'date of birth'
• mql_encode -quote a unicode string to turn it into a valid mql /type/key/value
• add_widget -add a generic html view of a topic

poo

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