Is there a way to get a list of related artists through the spotify api. Like the small list that displays in the actual program?
Would be very useful if so, but I am not so sure
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Yes, it's available through libspotify. There's a SPArtistBrowse class that contains a lot of metadata, including the related artists. Check out the
CocoaLibSpotify comes with a documentation package, where you can find more details on what's included: https://github.com/spotify/cocoalibspotify.
Do note that it's currently extremely slow to load an entire SPArtistBrowse object. I'm assuming it's got something to do with libspotify loading it all in one chunk and on the main thread (?). From what I know, Spotify are suppose to remedy that in an upcoming version of libspotify, though.
Get an artist's related artists is now available through the Spotify Web API.
GET https://api.spotify.com/v1/artists/{id}/related-artists is the format.
https://api.spotify.com/v1/artists/43ZHCT0cAZBISjO8DG9PnE/related-artists is an example request.
For more information, see the API documentation.
There is also a JSFiddle demo app.
Definitely! All you need is the "artist_id" and the SpotifyPublicAPI can return a list of the related artists. You don't need an access_token at all.
You can easily test the API call here on RapidAPI. I've specifically linked you to the getArtistsRelatedArtists endpoint. Rapid will provide you with a code snippet you can copy and paste directly into your code to make the call.
Here is an example testing the API call using Beyonce's artist_id:
Here is a sample code snippet provided by RapidAPI wth Beyonce's artist_id passed as a parameter:
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I need to use the table in from this wiki page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_visited_museums to make a database in python (though the latter part is irrelevant atm). I have to use the API (can't scrape) to access it. Right now I'm trying the API's documentation https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Parsing_wikitext#Example_1:_Parse_content_of_a_page Example #2 from this page is exactly what I want to do, but it's returning an error, and even running the original code in my notebook it also returns an error. Can anyone tell me how to either alter that code so it runs, or direct me to another way to do the same thing? Thanks.
This fetches the content you're after: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=parse&page=List%20of%20most%20visited%20museums&prop=wikitext§ion=2&format=json
If the example isn't working in your notebook, the problem probably lies with the rest of your code and not with the API call.
This is my link for getting one random article using Wiki API:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?%20format=json&action=query&prop=extracts&exsentences=2&exintro=&explaintext=&generator=random&grnnamespace=0
I need to get from it the first two sentences of the first section, and it works pretty well.
I want to use this kind of link and search this random article in a specific category. This is what I have tried after searching online:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?%20format=json&action=query&prop=extracts&exsentences=2&exintro=&explaintext=&generator=random&grnnamespace=0&cmtitle=Category:Music
(I have added this part to the original link: cmtitle=Category:Music )
It doesn't work for me.
It gets the random article like the first link (not under a wanted category, which is Music in this link).
There is no API to get a random category member (and using a parameter from some unrelated API module is certainly not going to help). You could screen scrape Special:RandomInCategory (or turn it into an API module - patches welcome :)
try to use cmlimit to get all of the catgeorymembers, then use a programming language, like Python to request the page, then store every catgeory in an array, and use the random module to get a random catgeorymember from the array you stored them in. then you can use it in a link to get the specific page for the categorymember or anything else that you need.
Here is an excerpt from an assignment I am currently doing:
Build a dummy app that:
Contains a REST API that operates over a single resource.
Contains a Backbone client that consumes that API and can list, show, create, update, and remove that resource.
My understanding was that the term "consume" implies total coverage of the API's exposed ressources. However, the assignment says "consumes that API and can [CRUD] that resource".
Is that sentence redundant or is my understanding of the term wrong?
(Bonus question: why searching Google for this question returns countless language-specific tutorials for "consuming an API" but none explain what the term actually means?).
To consume an API means to basically use any part of it from your application.
Consuming an API here means creating a client which can send requests to the API that you build.
It appears that you need to create and API which can handle Create, retrieve, update and delete (CRUD) of a resource. For instance if your REST api is to create a blog, your API should handle CRUD functions for the object/resource blogpost.
POST - Create a blog post
GET - Retrieve a blog post
PUT - Update a blog post
DELETE - Delete a blog post.
It is about the direction of the app's interaction with API - it either provides an API, or consumes it, so there are providers and consumers of API, and this is just a less general and ambiguous term than 'using'.
Simply consuming an API means using it in your application.
For, e.g., GET request to https://someapi/Users will give you all the users.
You need to request this URL https://someapi/Users to get all the users and then you can use it into your application.
I always think about Albert Einstein's quote of "If you can’t explain it to a six year old, you don’t understand it yourself." when someone asks a question that you might take for granted due to technical experience you have on a subject.
I think the following medium.com article does an excellent job explaining it: How do you explain API to a 5-year-old?
simply means : using the API.
You can do it with HTTP method (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE..) using something like Postman (Tool) or maybe you have a client app/library that calls these methods implicitly.
I want to show my customer's flickr page using API.But i don't know which method is used to take the photos which are shown in our home page of flickr.
Thank you
I think you are looking for this API function: https://secure.flickr.com/services/api/flickr.people.getPhotos.html
(Note that probably you could also call
https://secure.flickr.com/services/api/flickr.photos.search.html
setting the parameter user_id (Optional) to the id of your customer's flickr page.)
One way to do this is by using Temboo - a service that makes it easy to work with lots of APIs in the programming language of your choice.
Temboo has a method called ListPublicPhotos that is built on top of the Flickr API. You pass it a Flickr API key and the ID of your customer, and it'll return their public photos in JSON format.
You can experiment with this method in your browser and then automatically generate the source code you need to call this behavior from your code.
(Full disclosure: I work at Temboo, so let me know if you have any questions!)
Graph API is not returning image("picture" attribute) for objects corresponding to community pages, which used to be returned earlier. For example this https://graph.facebook.com/178790412179919 does not have picture attribute whereas the corresponding page has an image.
Also the FQL query done on the "albums" connection for some objects does not have a "cover_pid" attribute for an album corresponding to type "profile", which again used to work earlier.
Does anybody know if anything has changed in Graph API corresponding to this in last couple of weeks (I am fairly confident it used to work earlier in the expected way). I looked through Facebook API release notes but could not find any changes corresponding to this. Please let me know if this not appropriate post for this forum.
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/page/
picture is a connection, not an attribute. So ...
https://graph.facebook.com/178790412179919/picture
And as the docs say: Returns a HTTP 302 with the URL of the user's profile picture.
Kinda goofy? Yes, but it works exactly as the docs say it does. I suspect they implemented it this way so it could easily be used in an <IMG> tag.
UPDATE:
It still works via FQL. In your case:
https://api.facebook.com/method/fql.query?query=SELECT+page_id%2C+pic+FROM+page+WHERE+page_id+%3D+178790412179919&format=json
I can confirm that this PREVIOUSLY worked, but NO LONGER works. Facebook have removed the picture connection from Community Pages.
I suspect the reason is that most of these images are pulled from Wikipedia, and there was a licensing / attribution issue.
Unfortunately, Facebook is no longer a reliable source of images for entities (e.g. bands).