I am using soundcloud API for a project but the problem is I get remix of the original songs or cover version, its okay if I get remix and cover version but is there any mechanism that the original one comes as first song in the search result ? I tried searching on Google and read the API documentation but found nothing in this context.
The track object in soundcloud's API actually has the track_type property which has possible values of 'original' and 'remix' among other things. Sadly like most valueable metadata the track object has, content providers neglect to fill the field. So unless content providers start putting more effort into filling in the metadata fields the only option you have is giving songs priority based on words in the title or tags.
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I am trying to get as much data as a I can out of the Twitter API for an academic research project. Even though I only have access to the Standard API the data should be as accurate as possible. I am building myself a "wrapper" around Twarc and other utilities in Python that gets me most of the data I want in just the format I need. A big problem was getting all the replies, but I was able to solve it with a bit of trickery: Searching from the tweet in question onwards and then checking if the tweets in the obtained sample have the original tweet ID in "in_reply_to_tweet_id". Rinse and repeat with those newly obtained tweets.
Then I noticed the new moderation feature Twitter implemented in March. Now the moderated comments under "More replies" do not show up in my search output.
Example: https://twitter.com/NDRreporter/status/1113353224730365952
I find all replies except the following: Under "More replies" ("Mehr Antworten" in German), there is a reply chain started by a extreme right leaning (possibly troll) account ("#Der Steuerzahler") that got moderated and shoved down there. This does not show up in API searches, even if I let the code iterate for over an hour just looking for replies to this particular original tweet.
My question is pretty general: Aside from getting replies as they come in (i.e. before they are moderated) via Filter API, is it possible to find these moderated tweets via the Standard Search API? Not looking for a ready-made solution, general pointers suffice. If I can't find them via Search, then I obviously won't try it with that anymore.
Thanks in advance.
Since today (or yesterday) the Google Place Autocomplete web service (https://developers.google.com/places/web-service/autocomplete) is returning a wrong place id (place_id). Does anyone know how to get the right place id from the Autocomplete API?
For example, the place id for New York City is ChIJOwg_06VPwokRYv534QaPC8g (according to the Place Details API), but the Autocomplete API returns ChIJOwg_06VPwokRYv534QaPC8iaBilOZXcgWW9yayBDaXR5LCBOZXcgWW9yaywgVmVyZW5pZ2RlIFN0YXRlbg as place_id. The beginning of the string is almost the same, except for the last character of the 'right' place id (g).
Is this a bug or is Google changing their place ids? Unfortunately I can't find anything related to this problem.
Some place ids from the Place Autocomplete API have been altered due to a recent issue: https://code.google.com/p/gmaps-api-issues/issues/detail?id=11107. The longer place ids should be accepted by all Maps APIs (but see the caveat in https://code.google.com/p/gmaps-api-issues/issues/detail?id=11107#c30).
Unfortunately, this will be around for some time. A way to get the "short" place id corresponding to a long one is to issue a Place Details call with the long place id (the returned result will have a short place id).
Here are some example (setting italy as country):
http://api.deezer.com/2.0/track/2566127 says the track is not readable, but I can play it both from deezer.com and from an API app, the same for http://api.deezer.com/2.0/track/7960580
http://api.deezer.com/2.0/track/3259613 says the track is not readable, it is actually not existent (and usually for not existent track the API return error)
Some other times a track (which used to exist) results as not existent (e.g. http://api.deezer.com/2.0/track/17737916 Beatles - Till There Was You) both from API and deezer.com player (http://www.deezer.com/it/track/17737916) BUT if I search the song using the tile from deezer.com I can see that the track is available with a new id (APIs don't give me the "alternative" id, though).
Am I doing something wrong or the APIs responses are sometime just nor reliable?
Tracks in the Deezer API have now an "alternative" field as well as "available_countries" to deal with those country availability issues. You can check it in the API Explorer.
This is however not working for deprecated track ids, because queries on unexisting tracks will just result in a DataException. You could use ISRC codes to work around that, that we now provide as well. Hope this helps.
I'm trying to query Picasa Web Albums to pull album/photo data (obviously!) however initially I only need to pull the first 4 photos. Is there any way to limit a particular field or specify the items per page?
I've already accomplished something similar with Facebook's Graph API however I'm unable to find anything similar for Picasa. The only items I can find related to limiting the response is specifying which fields, but nothing related to the number of rows.
Use max-results argument. See doc here.
https://developers.google.com/picasa-web/docs/2.0/reference#Parameters
I am getting a collection of photos via this flickr API:
description: http://www.flickr.com/services/api/flickr.tags.getClusterPhotos.html
example: http://www.flickr.com/services/api/explore/flickr.tags.getClusterPhotos
I see no option to include the license parameter on the API query and I thus get copyrighted images returned, which I do not want. I see that I can get the license info by calling flickr.photos.getInfo on each individual image, but this will be quite time consuming. Are there any other methods to get a collection of photos from a tag cluster with a particular license?
License is one of the parameters listed in their api here:
http://www.flickr.com/services/api/flickr.photos.search.html
I would try just using the id's from the results listed here in their return:
http://www.flickr.com/services/api/flickr.photos.licenses.getInfo.html
for example:
&license=4
It may be better to use "flickr.photos.search" instead. You can search for a specific tag and license (there is no need to do a second call on each image).
https://www.flickr.com/services/api/explore/flickr.photos.search