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This type provides documentation for the various web services exposed by the Freebase API.
 
 
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x api/service/mqlread   Current /api/service/mqlread No
The mqlread service is used to perform read-only queries on Freebase data. MQL queries must be wrapped in an envelope consisting of two JSON objects before being sent to mqlread. This is explained in detail in section 4.2.4 of the The...
x api/service/mqlwrite   Current /api/service/mqlwrite Yes
The mqlwrite service is used to perform insertions, deletions, and updates to Freebase data. Unlike mqlread, the programmatic use of mqlwrite requires authentication. If you are writing Acre scripts, then you should use the convenient function acre...
x api/service/search   Current /api/service/search No
Name   search Description   Provides text search based on a query string and  optional constraints. Accessible Via   /api/service/search HTTP GET   Yes HTTP POST   Yes Special Headers   None Login Required   No Required Arguments query: the string...
x api/service/upload   Current /api/service/upload Yes
Raw upload service, mainly for XHR based requests or requests from non-browser clients The service also creates and executes a MQL query to register the content object in the graph and associate it with an existing document or newly created...
x api/trans/raw   Current /api/trans/raw No
Gets the raw blob via CDB Note that the ID (/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000003cbdd2d) is the ID of a /common/document associated with a topic, not the ID of the topic itself. Thus, given a topic, you must first issue a MQL query read for a /common...
x api/trans/blurb   Current /api/trans/blurb No
Gets a blurbified version of blobs via CDB Note that the ID (/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000001daf5) is the ID of a /common/document associated with a topic, not the ID of the topic itself. Thus, given a topic, you must first issue a MQL query read...
x api/trans/image_thumb   Current /api/trans/image_thumb No
Thumbnails an image to the requested size. There are two levels of failover for this service now:
x api/account/login   Current /api/account/login No
Logs a user into the system by validating username and password against the auth database
x api/account/logout   Current /api/account/logout No
End user's authenticated session
x api/version   Current /api/version No
Displays software version information for gd, me, client (cdb, relevance)
x dataserver/reconciliation   Defunct /dataserver/reconciliation/ No
This service is now defunct.  It previously offered a REST API to handle the reconciliation problem, summed up as "Tell me which freebase topic, if any, some data corresponds to."  Matching was performed via string-distance from the name of the...
x api/status   Current /api/status No
Provides detailed status information for various Freebase services
x api/service/touch   Current /api/service/touch No
Resets the mwLastWriteTime cookie to the current time. This ensures that any requests from the time you use this service gets you the latest data instead of possibly stale cached data. Freebase.com uses the mwLastWriteTime cookie to...
x api/service/form_upload   Current api/service/form_upload Yes
Provides upload services to upload any BLOB into metaweb via HTML forms. The service also creates and executes a MQL query to register the content object in the graph and associate it with an existing document or newly created document as the case...
x api/service/form_upload_image   Current /api/service/form_upload_image Yes
The service also creates and executes a MQL query to register the content object in the graph and associate it with an existing document or newly created document as the case may be.
x api/service/uri_submit_image   Current /api/service/uri_submit_image Yes
Upload an image to metaweb by specifying a URL. This service was specifically designed to be used with the flipbook in the client and has restrictions as to what you can upload.
x api/service/uri_submit   Current /api/service/uri_submit Yes
Upload any resource via a URL
x api/service/create_private_domain   Current /api/service/create_private_domain Yes
If the display name is not provided the domain_key is used as the display name. The domain key can be a maximum of 4k characters in length It can be composed of any valid utf8 character, with the exception that if the ascii encoding value is less...
x api/service/delete_private_domain   Current /api/service/delete_private_domain Yes
Deletes an empty private domain for the user in the /user/username namespace OR in the case of an utf-8 domain name
x api/account/loggedin   Current api/account/loggedin No
Verify whether a user is currently logged in.
x api/service/user_info   Current /api/service/user_info Yes
Provides basic information about logged in user
x Common API Query Parameters        
For APIs which require this header, this header can be set to any value. Javascript toolkits typically set this to XMLHttpRequest when making requests from the browser. This header is required to defeat cross-site request forgery. Because the...
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