GET /20220401/artist POST /20220401/artist
The artist
endpoint allows clients to retrieve metadata about given musical artists,
given search parameters. The parameters are used to query OneMusicAPI's aggregated database of MusicBrainz,
Discogs and Wikipedia data.
Queries can be sent as a GET or POST request.
All queries must contain the following:
Result artist objects follow this schema:
Artist
Field | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
name | String | The name of the release. E.g. Massive Attack. |
aliases | Array of string | Any aliases for the artist. The name of the release. E.g. for David Bowie, The Thin White Duke. |
images | Array of Image (optional) |
Images for this artist. |
country | String (optional) | The country or jurisdiction the artist is associated with. |
urls | Array of string (optional) | URLs relating to this artist. |
resource-url | String | A URL to retrieve more information using artist lookup. |
score | Number | How confident, from 0 to 1, that OneMusicAPI has found the correct release. |
The "called" query allows for artists to be looked up that go by a given name, moniker or alias.
/20220401/artist?user_key=myUserKey&called=fab%20four
Retrieves information about The Beatles
/20220401/artist?user_key=myUserKey&called=Led%20Zeppelin
Retrieves information about Led Zeppelin
OneMusicAPI accepts Discogs artist IDs to identify artists. When a Discogs artist ID is used to lookup artist information, not only is the Discogs data for that artist returned, but also for the same artist on other databases, such as on MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
In addition, all queries can be further constrained with the following parameters:
inc
is set then the following additional items may be retrieved:
/20220401/artist?user_key=myUserKey&discogsId=2774
Retrieves information about Portishead
Here's an example response:
http://api.onemusicapi.com/20220401/artist?called=Ziggy%20Stardust
[ { "name": "Ziggy Stardust", "aliases": [ "David Jones", "Bowie", "David Bowie", "David Robert Jones", "The Thin White Duke", "Ziggy Stardust", "Davis Bowie", "Davie Bowie", ], "country": "", "urls": [ "http:\/\/lyrics.wikia.com\/David_Bowie", "http:\/\/www.teenagewildlife.com\/", "https:\/\/myspace.com\/davidbowie", "http:\/\/www.davidbowiecatalogue.com\/", "http:\/\/www.illustrated-db-discography.nl\/", "http:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/David_Bowie", "http:\/\/decoda.com\/david-bowie-lyrics", "http:\/\/www.bowiedownunder.com\/", "http:\/\/muzikum.eu\/en\/122-3437\/david-bowie\/lyrics.html", "http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/music\/artists\/5441c29d-3602-4898-b1a1-b77fa23b8e50", "http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/officialdavidbowie", "http:\/\/www.velvetgoldmine.it\/", "http:\/\/www.secondhandsongs.com\/artist\/194", "http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/davidbowie", "http:\/\/www.algonet.se\/~bassman\/", "http:\/\/bowiesongs.wordpress.com\/", "http:\/\/www.bowiewonderworld.com\/", "http:\/\/www.sonymusic.co.jp\/Music\/International\/Arch\/SR\/DavidBowie\/", "http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000309\/", "https:\/\/myspace.com\/davidbowielegacy", "https:\/\/twitter.com\/DavidBowieReal", "http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/DavidBowieVEVO", "http:\/\/www.littleoogie.com\/", "http:\/\/www.wikidata.org\/wiki\/Q5383", "https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:David-Bowie_Chicago_2002-08-08_photoby_Adam-Bielawski-cropped.jpg", "http:\/\/rateyourmusic.com\/artist\/david_bowie", "http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/artist\/10263", "http:\/\/viaf.org\/viaf\/56606484", "https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/davidbowie", "http:\/\/www.davidbowie.com\/", "http:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/artist\/mn0000531986" ], "score": 1 } ]comments powered by Disqus