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jquery.freebase.js

Tags: Posted: May 18, 2009

I've been working on a little widget that pulls data from Freebase (Can't say more than that yet) and needed a nice neat way to query.

In case it could come in handy here's a tiny jQuery plugin for querying Freebase over JSONP.

Code:

jQuery.freebase = function(query, callback, write, sandbox) {
	var host = sandbox ? "api.sandbox.freebase.com" : "api.freebase.com";
	var base = write ? "/api/service/mqlwrite" : "/api/service/mqlread";
	
	var url = "http://" + host + base + '?query={"query":' + jQuery.toJSON(query) + '}&callback=?';
	
	jQuery.getJSON(url, callback );
};

Obviously mqlwrites do not work, I'm going to proxy these.

Code is released as public domain.