Freebase query for full topic summary

Question

I\'m trying to retrieve the full topic description/summary for some Freebase articles. I have been using the Freebase topic API, which returns this type of results: http://w

Answer 1

You can also fetch this directly from MQL with the "text" extension:

{ "id": "/en/jimi_hendrix", "/common/topic/article": [{ "text": { "maxlength": 16384, "chars": null } }] }​

Note that you'll need to turn on MQL extensions for this to work - see here for an example of this in action.

Edit August 2012: while this works for the original freebase.com hosted APIs, the MQL extension functionality has been removed from the new googleapis.com hosted APIs, so this method shouldn't be relied on any more.