Content is truncated

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    1. jevous
      Oct 22, 2009
      jevous says:

      Hi,

      I ran a few queries in the MQL editor and I noticed that most of the contents that are returned are truncated. Say for example I tried querying information in general ("/common/topic/article") about location "Nottingham", the contents that were returned are not the full paragraph. I understand that the 'trans blurb' service only picks out text in the

      tags and gets rid of the html tags but will that cause the content to be truncated ? Is there a way to get the full content ?

      Thanks

      2. willmoffat Metaweb Staff
        Oct 22, 2009
        willmoffat says:

        Hi, the blurb service has a ?maxlength option which is 200 characters by default. More info in the docs.

      3. willmoffat Metaweb Staff
        Oct 22, 2009
        willmoffat says:

        but it also looks like we don't actually store the entire Wikipedia entries since the 'raw' service is also returned truncated entries: http://www.freebase.com/api/trans/raw/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000001daf5

        If this isn't enough, I suggest posting your problem (with example urls) to the developers mailing list. The developers responsible for the wikipedia loads hang out there.

      4. jevous
        Oct 22, 2009
        jevous says:

        Hi Will,

        I forgot to mention that I did explicitly set the maxlength to something like 10000 bytes but that didn't help either.

        I'm guessing the full content is not available on Freebase ?

        With the example above on hamsters, the article content ends with the sentence "Pet Syrian hamsters are descended..." followed by a link to read the full article on Wikipedia.

        Thanks once again for your assistance.

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