2017-02-14, 04:02
(2017-02-13, 16:17)DaveBlake Wrote: Another question: where can I look to see what data the online sources could return. Do they have some kind of documented API?
see the links from jjd-uk, but if you have specific questions, let me know
(2017-02-13, 19:17)jjd-uk Wrote: Was discussing online services with Dave and turned up these API docs that seem to answer at least some of his question.
MusicBrainz https://wiki.musicbrainz.org/Development...n_2/Search
AudioDB http://www.theaudiodb.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7
Fanart.tv http://docs.fanarttv.apiary.io/#reference/music
Allmusic http://developer.rovicorp.com/docs/?wiki...2.1/search (this uses the Allmusic DB from what I gather)
sadly, we can't use the rovicorp api, it's a paid one.
instead we scrape the allmusic pages.
btw, we are not allowed to scrape the artist biography and album reviews from allmusic, as they are copyrighted (they have contacted us about it in the past).
last.fm and discogs.com also previously let us know we are not allowed to scrape them.
in case discogs.com is deemed useful, their data is public domain and they provide data dumps. so setting up our own mirror is a possibility.
