updated Freebase example for newer API (changed since I wrote this book)

mark-watson · Nov 14, 2013 · 9ed0b46 · 9ed0b46
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diff --git a/src/com/knowledgebooks/info_spiders/FreebaseClient.java b/src/com/knowledgebooks/info_spiders/FreebaseClient.java
@@ -18,11 +18,11 @@
  */
 
 public class FreebaseClient {
-  static final String URL = "http://www.freebase.com/api/service/mqlread";
+
+  static final String URL = "https://www.googleapis.com/freebase/v1/mqlread";
 
   public JSON query(String json) throws Exception {
-    String envelope = "{\"qname\":{\"query\":" + json + "}}";
-    String urlStr = URL + "?queries=" + URLEncoder.encode(envelope, "UTF-8");
+    String urlStr = URL + "?query=" + URLEncoder.encode(json, "UTF-8");
     URL url = new URL(urlStr);
     URLConnection con = url.openConnection();
     con.connect();

diff --git a/test/TestFreebase.java b/test/TestFreebase.java
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ public class TestFreebase {
   public static void main(String[] args) {
     try {
       FreebaseClient t = new FreebaseClient();
-      JSON r = t.query("[{     \"/people/person/date_of_birth\":null,     \"/people/person/gender\":null,     \"/people/person/place_of_birth\":null,     \"/people/person/profession\":\"biologist\", \"name\":null   }] ");
+      JSON r = t.query("{\"type\":\"/people/person\",\"id\":\"/en/madonna\",\"children\":[]}");
       System.out.println(r);
     } catch (Exception e) {
       e.printStackTrace();