Deleted Freebase code

Freebase is long-gone

dbpedialite.rb

@@ -193,13 +193,6 @@ def format_iso8061(datetime)
       redirect_from_title($2)
     elsif params[:url] =~ %r{^https?://(www\.)?wikidata.org/(wiki|entity)/(Q\d+)$}
       redirect_from_wikidata($3)
-    elsif params[:url] =~ %r{^https?://www.freebase.com/(view|inspect|edit/topic)(/.+)$}
-      begin
-        data = FreebaseApi.lookup_by_id($2)
-        redirect "/things/#{data['key']['value']}", 301
-      rescue FreebaseApi::NotFound
-        not_found("No Wikipedia page id found for Freebase topic")
-      end
     elsif params[:url] =~ %r{^https?://([\w\.\-\:]+)/(things|categories)/(\d+)(\#\w*)?$}
       begin
         data = WikipediaApi.page_info(:pageids => $3)

lib/thing.rb

@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 require 'wikipedia_api'
 require 'wikidata_api'
-require 'freebase_api'
 require 'base_model'
 
 
@@ -12,8 +11,6 @@ class Thing < BaseModel
   has :latitude, :kind => Float, :default => nil
   has :externallinks, :kind => Array, :default => []
   has :updated_at, :kind => DateTime, :default => nil
-  has :freebase_guid, :kind => String, :default => nil
-  has :freebase_mid, :kind => String, :default => nil
   has :wikidata_id, :kind => String, :default => nil
   has :wikidata_label, :kind => String, :default => nil
   has :wikidata_description, :kind => String, :default => nil
@@ -34,49 +31,6 @@ def load
     #end
   end
 
-  def freebase_guid
-    fetch_freebase_uris
-    @freebase_guid
-  end
-
-  def freebase_mid
-    fetch_freebase_uris
-    @freebase_mid
-  end
-
-  def freebase_guid_uri
-    fetch_freebase_uris
-    if freebase_guid
-      @freebase_guid_uri ||= RDF::URI.parse("http://rdf.freebase.com/ns/"+freebase_guid.sub('#','guid.'))
-    end
-  end
-
-  def freebase_mid_uri
-    fetch_freebase_uris
-    if freebase_mid
-      @freebase_mid_uri ||= RDF::URI.parse("http://rdf.freebase.com/ns/"+freebase_mid.sub('/m/','m.'))
-    end
-  end
-
-  def fetch_freebase_uris
-    # Only make call to freebase once
-    unless @called_freebase
-      @called_freebase = true
-      # Attempt to match to Freebase, but silently fail on error
-      begin
-        data = FreebaseApi.lookup_wikipedia_pageid(pageid)
-        self.freebase_mid = data['mid']
-        self.freebase_guid = data['guid']
-      rescue Timeout::Error => e
-        $stderr.puts "Timed out while reading from Freebase: #{e.message}"
-      rescue FreebaseApi::Exception => e
-        $stderr.puts "Error while reading from Freebase: #{e.message}"
-      rescue Net::HTTPServerException => e
-        $stderr.puts "Error while making HTTP request to Freebase: #{e.message}"
-      end
-    end
-  end
-
   def wikidata_id
     fetch_wikidata
     @wikidata_id
@@ -143,8 +97,6 @@ def to_rdf
       graph << [self.uri, RDF::RDFS.comment, abstract]
       graph << [self.uri, RDF::FOAF.isPrimaryTopicOf, wikipedia_uri]
       graph << [self.uri, RDF::OWL.sameAs, dbpedia_uri]
-      graph << [self.uri, RDF::OWL.sameAs, freebase_guid_uri] unless freebase_guid_uri.nil?
-      graph << [self.uri, RDF::OWL.sameAs, freebase_mid_uri] unless freebase_mid_uri.nil?
       graph << [self.uri, RDF::GEO.lat, latitude] unless latitude.nil?
       graph << [self.uri, RDF::GEO.long, longitude] unless longitude.nil?
 

spec/dbpedialite_spec.rb

@@ -258,11 +258,6 @@ def app
         :body => fixture_data('wbgetentities-ceres.json'),
         :content_type => 'application/json'
       )
-      FakeWeb.register_uri(
-        :get, %r[https://www.googleapis.com/freebase/v1/mqlread],
-        :body => fixture_data('freebase-mqlread-934787.json'),
-        :content_type => 'application/json'
-      )
     end
 
     context "as an HTML document using content negotiation" do
@@ -292,11 +287,6 @@ def app
           :body => fixture_data('parse-934787.json'),
           :content_type => 'application/json'
         )
-        FakeWeb.register_uri(
-          :get, %r[http://api.freebase.com/api/service/mqlread],
-          :body => fixture_data('freebase-mqlread-934787.json'),
-          :content_type => 'application/json'
-        )
         header "Accept", "text/plain"
         get '/things/934787'
       end
@@ -449,11 +439,6 @@ def app
         :body => fixture_data('wbgetentities-imac.json'),
         :content_type => 'application/json'
       )
-      FakeWeb.register_uri(
-        :get, %r[https://www.googleapis.com/freebase/v1/mqlread],
-        :body => fixture_data('freebase-mqlread-21492980.json'),
-        :content_type => 'application/json'
-      )
     end
 
     context "as an HTML document" do
@@ -518,7 +503,7 @@ def app
     end
   end
 
-  context "GETing an HTML thing for something that doesn't exist in Freebase or Wikidata" do
+  context "GETing an HTML thing for something that doesn't exist in Wikidata" do
     before :each do
       FakeWeb.register_uri(
         :get, 'https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=parse&format=json&pageid=2008435&prop=text%7Cdisplaytitle',
@@ -530,11 +515,6 @@ def app
         :body => fixture_data('wbgetentities-notfound.json'),
         :content_type => 'application/json'
       )
-      FakeWeb.register_uri(
-        :get, %r[https://www.googleapis.com/freebase/v1/mqlread],
-        :body => fixture_data('freebase-mqlread-notfound.json'),
-        :content_type => 'application/json'
-      )
       @stderr_buffer = StringIO.new
       previous_stderr, $stderr = $stderr, @stderr_buffer
       get '/things/2008435'
@@ -740,26 +720,6 @@ def app
       end
     end
 
-    context "flipping from a Freebase page" do
-      before :each do
-        FakeWeb.register_uri(
-          :get, %r[https://www.googleapis.com/freebase/v1/mqlread],
-          :body => fixture_data('freebase-mqlread-en-new-york.json'),
-          :content_type => 'application/json'
-        )
-        get '/flipr?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freebase.com%2Fview%2Fen%2Fnew_york'
-      end
-
-      it "should redirect to the coresponding Dbpedia lite thing page" do
-        last_response.status.should == 301
-        last_response.location.should == 'http://example.org/things/645042'
-      end
-
-      it "should be cachable" do
-        last_response.headers['Cache-Control'].should =~ /max-age=([1-9]+)/
-      end
-    end
-
     context "flipping from an unknown page" do
       before :each do
         get '/flipr?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk%2F'