2010-10-14, 17:14
As far as I can tell, the AllMusic scraper is out of date, although I might be missing something. The CreateAlbumSearchUrl is this:
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?P=amg...amp;OPT1=2
Where \1 is the album title. For example, if you scrape the Dire Straits album "Brothers In Arms", you get:
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?P=amg...amp;OPT1=2
But both interactively and in the debugger, this just seems to return the allmusic.com home page. Shouldn't the CreateAlbumSearchUrl be something like this?
http://www.allmusic.com/search/album/\1?
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?P=amg...amp;OPT1=2
Where \1 is the album title. For example, if you scrape the Dire Straits album "Brothers In Arms", you get:
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?P=amg...amp;OPT1=2
But both interactively and in the debugger, this just seems to return the allmusic.com home page. Shouldn't the CreateAlbumSearchUrl be something like this?
http://www.allmusic.com/search/album/\1?