http://blog.digital-tunes.net/articles/2008/12/30/super-shiny-beta-api en-us 40 <p><img src="/files/coding_lg.jpg" style="float : right; height: 100px; margin-left : 10px"/>Last summer the idea of getting a nice API knocked up grabbed my attention again after reading <a href="http://www.wikinomics.com/book/">Wikinomics</a>, and I realised that if we could get one out fairly quickly we would be the first electronic download store to have such a thing. I scribbled down all the calls I wanted, and a rough outline of the architecture whilst lounging in the sun in northern France, and figured we could probably knock up a beta fairly quickly after summer.</p> <p>It took a little longer to get around to than I'd hoped, but yesterday we deployed a really nice new <a href="http://code.google.com/p/digitaltunesapi">API</a> for the store, one that should be really usable. It feels totally the right kind of thing for us to do right now, as it helps us to be even more open and transparent with the community, which is what we are all about. I'm kinda surprised we were the first store of our kind to do this, but I think that just shows how most stores really don't understand what the web is all about. </p> <p>Anyhow let's have a bit of a play with the <a href="http://code.google.com/p/digitaltunesapi">API</a>. First of all we need to register an application at <a href="http://www.digital-tunes.net/affiliates/new">http://www.digital-tunes.net/affiliates/new</a>. Then we can use the key generated for us to make calls, it's as simple as that. </p> <p>So, being a scatalogical fellow, lets try and find some real shit from the store with the following call:</p> <pre> http://api.digital-tunes.net/releases/search/shit%20music?key=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx </pre> <p> This finds a suitably pooey release, some dodgy italian rap one of our distributors dumped on us: <a href="http://www.digital-tunes.net/releases/rapper_italiano">http://www.digital-tunes.net/releases/rapper_italiano</a></p> <p> Im also a fan of animals so lets search for some animal tracks:</p> <pre> http://api.digital-tunes.net/tracks/search/zebra?key=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx </pre> <p> Aha, Mr Zebra by Men in Slippers, that sounds interesting! Actually a nice little minimal number, sweet ! </p> <p> Anyhow enough of my stupid examples, check out the documentation at <a href="http://code.google.com/p/digitaltunesapi/">http://code.google.com/p/digitaltunesapi/</a> and have a play! </p> Tue, 30 Dec 2008 23:20:00 +0200 urn:uuid:9df30c14-3325-4a4b-a4d1-210f0cfac340 will http://blog.digital-tunes.net/articles/2008/12/30/super-shiny-beta-api news im with alpine..come again blud! Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:00:34 +0200 urn:uuid:8c1d3139-225c-4338-bf6a-094ca2b697d3 http://blog.digital-tunes.net/articles/2008/12/30/super-shiny-beta-api#comment-5828 This is really cool, I can think of a ton of uses for an API based off a large database like you must have. Thanks :) PS. If you enjoyed wikinomics, check out this book "The Starfish and the Spider" <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Starfish-Spider-Unstoppable-Leaderless-Organizations/dp/1591841437/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1231164186&sr=8-7" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/Starfish-Spider-Unstoppable-Leaderless-Organizations/dp/1591841437/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1231164186&sr=8-7</a> Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:05:11 +0200 urn:uuid:bd65f665-3df7-447b-8f98-ea1f20999d23 http://blog.digital-tunes.net/articles/2008/12/30/super-shiny-beta-api#comment-5827 I have no idea what you are talking about! Mon, 05 Jan 2009 15:07:31 +0200 urn:uuid:e48dfbfb-379c-41f3-a21c-1b0dfa6a5617 http://blog.digital-tunes.net/articles/2008/12/30/super-shiny-beta-api#comment-5826