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Ask HN: Has anyone used the Freebase Wikipedia Extraction?
Has anyone used the Freebase WEX? Are there better ways to get Wikipedia article summaries easily? The Wikipedia API doesn't seem to have a simple way to extract just an article summary (i.e. the first paragraph).
- rchiniquy 18y agoTotally wondering about this myself. Not convinced Freebase is perfect for me.
- babyshake 18y agoUsing WEX for a web application will require a ton of work that you want to avoid if possible. Freebase does have a summary of each topic, typically pulled from wikipedia.
- shafqat 18y agoYes, but there is no way to get the summary from Freebase directly. They dont include the summary in the TSV textfile downloads they offer. On their site, it says the only way to get the summaries is via WEX. Are there other good ways to get the Wikipedia summaries?
- rchiniquy 18y agoYou can just download all their data in a giant tarball and pull it out of there yourself.