I found that I can search for a song term like so:
https://itunes.apple.com/search?media=music&entity=musicTrack&attribute=songTerm&term=xxxx
But what I really want to do is search by song title and the artist. I can't seem to find syntax that would allow for that. Is it possible? I'm doing this from inside an iOS audio streaming application so I want to keep the returned results as small as possible so as to not use up much of a person's data plan.
Basically itunes search api sucks, a lot.
I was trying to do the same, but there isn't a direct way to search by song and artist, it searches both, and if your user misspelled the name of the song or the artist, the search can give you bad results.
So my solution was basically use a prefilter first to correct that, using echonest, to search by artist name and song name, then show a dropdown (you can choose other method like "Do you mean: ...?" with links to correct url for search) and then use what Fahad says, putting first the name of the artist and then the name of the song. Don't forget to encode those.
There are a few ways of doing this, the simplest would be something like
https://itunes.apple.com/search?term=slipknot+duality
For further information regarding the iTunes Search API
you can concatinate artist name and song title using + sign inplace of space between those words as given below:
https://itunes.apple.com/search?term=the+beatles+let+it+be
in the above url "the beatles" is the artist name and "let it be" is the track name.
That's it your done.
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"(m/0m48smv)" Based on my knowledge, this should response page title from Wikipedia which has a specific id. How can I know the page title?
m/0m48smv is the identifier of an entry in the former Freebase database.
The entry has the name "!" and types "relase track" and "topic".
While some Freebase entries have an associated Wikipedia artice, this is missing for the m/0m48smv entry.
I have been trying to call Wikipedia API to retrieve page id and wikidata item id using below call and it works fine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=pageprops&ppprop=wikibase_item&redirects=1&format=xml&titles=Cat
but I need to retrieve the same information from other languages of my choice for example if I mention German and French languages in my call, it should look for their translation of word Cat and retrieve their page info. There is langlink property in Wikipedia API but somehow it doesn't work with query action along with pageprop.
So ideally, I want something like this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=pageprops&ppprop=wikibase_item&prop=langlinks&lllang=de&lllang=fr&titles=Cat
Any help would be appreciated.
Using lllang twice will just result in the second value overwriting the first one. You'll have to omit the paramter and then you get all the links:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=pageprops|langlinks&ppprop=wikibase_item&titles=Cat
I’m trying to search all film with word “Seven”. It found 50 films. But some films and its description does not contain word “Seven”. For example film with trackId = 421072264 not contain word “Seven”.
Is iTunes search API working correctly?
https://itunes.apple.com/search?term=Seven&entity=movie
I attached response to Search%3DSeven.txt file.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/55328092/Search%3DSeven.txt
Yes this is working correctly, the search defaults to a broader set of data to search on when no attribute parameter is specified in the query.
You can reduce the search parameters by setting a value for attribute the the query, however this will still not stop it from returning films with 7 in their title, this seem to just be a quirk of the search algorithm.
https://itunes.apple.com/search?term=Seven&entity=movie&attribute=movieTerm
Weirdly this returns "Fast & Furious 5 - 7 Collection" before "Seven" which doesn't make much sense.
If it needs to be more precise then a id search can be done which would only return the specified movie
https://itunes.apple.com/lookup?id=534912090
See this link for more details on how to modify the search query and lookup searches:
https://affiliate.itunes.apple.com/resources/documentation/itunes-store-web-service-search-api/#searching
I tried to get the description of the movie "Your Highness" from the Wikipedia API but it gives me nothing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format=xml&action=query&titles=your%20highness&prop=revisions&rvprop=content
When I google "Your Highness" wikipedia shows up as the third result, that's the page that I want the API to give me.
Also I just want the text of the description of the movie, no wiki-syntax mixed in or anything.
I was wrong before about the problem being a space - it looks like it was just capitalization. If we just change your URL to use Your%20Highness instead of your%20highness it works:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format=xml&action=query&titles=Your%20Highness&prop=revisions&rvprop=content
EDIT: While not all titles are title-cased (such as "The Name of the Rose") if you use the &redirects query parameter, it sometimes helps - it certainly helps in "the name of the rose" but not for "your highness" for some reason. Wouldn't like to say why, but it's probably worth more investigation...
Is there any way of accessing the data on Flixster? Specifically, I'd like to retrieve a list of all of my movie ratings. I know you can get an rss feed of these, but it only appears to return a subset of all of the ratings.
View your Rotten Tomatoes / Flixster movie ratings by accessing this URL, first replacing USERIDHERE in the URL.
http://community.flixster.com/api/v1/users/USERIDHERE/ratings.rss
You can find out your user id by clicking to view your Profile, which will contain your unique id in the URL, such as:
http://www.flixster.com/user/USERIDHERE/
Yes, there is a new-ish Rotten-Tomatoes API at http://developer.rottentomatoes.com/docs/read/json/v10/Movie_Reviews
Here's a simple program, using the API, that I've found:
https://github.com/mmihaljevic/flixter
...and you can read her blog post for more information.
Just tested both fetching and parsing, and it still appears to work.