Freebase API Example - Selects best result - Note that this is Python 2 only

bestResult.py

__author__ = 'Kenneth Endfinger'

import json
import urllib

api_key = 'AIzaSyCq5sypSd_I5n7g7aKYmitNtGSksuBfsKk'
query = 'Example'
print('Query: ' + query)
service_url = 'https://www.googleapis.com/freebase/v1/search'
params = {
    'query': query,
    'key': api_key
}
url = service_url + '?' + urllib.urlencode(params)
response = json.loads(urllib.urlopen(url).read())
results = response['result']
count = len(results)
if count is 0:
    print('No Results Found.')
    exit()
print('There are {} results. Selecting best result.'.format(count))
largest = 0
best = None
for result in response['result']:
    if result['score'] > largest:
        largest = result['score']
        best = result
print('Name: ' + best['name'])
print('Score: {}'.format(best['score']))
print('MID: ' + best['mid'])
print('ID: ' + best['id'])