• Registered: 2012-03-21

Topic: artist search api issues: no json, searching artist full name

Hello,

Trying to run this query and expending to find "caro emerald":
http://musicbrainz.org/ws/2/artist/?que … ormat=json

However, the search results don't seem to consider the space, and there is no json support for this one.
How could I fix these?

Thanks

  • From: Singapore
  • Registered: 2007-02-13

Re: artist search api issues: no json, searching artist full name

I don't think json support has ever been implemented for the web service proper. It's not mentioned on http://musicbrainz.org/doc/XML_Web_Service/Version_2

If you want/need JSON, you can go direct via the search server; however I imagine there is some stuff that can't be retrieved via this mechanism as it will presumably limit you to information held within the search index (not the database); so I believe only queries will be supported - no entity browsing or direct entity retrieval.

For your search, if you want "starts with" you need to use a *. I'm a bit confused as I'd have thought you need artist:"caro e"* to escape the space and avoid it treating it as a separate token - but that doesn't work. Usually a space in the query is treated as an implicit OR. Anyway, no matter, maybe I'm confused :p

Via Search (JSON) http://search.musicbrainz.org/ws/2/arti … p;fmt=json
Via WS (XML): http://musicbrainz.org/ws/2/artist/?query=caro%20e*

(the artist: is implicit since you're already doing a /artist/ search)

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  • Registered: 2012-03-21

Re: artist search api issues: no json, searching artist full name

Great, thanks a lot voiceinsideme :)

Could one one search.musicbrainz.org for a real app (e.g. perform a search every second), or is it for demo purposes only?

  • From: Singapore
  • Registered: 2007-02-13

Re: artist search api issues: no json, searching artist full name

Well most server applications require more performance than 1 request per second, however if it's sufficient for you, or you're working on a client-side/GUI application it's probably OK.

In any case this is probably a question for the core dev team. You're best to get in touch with them in IRC or the mb-devel mailing list.

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