The Musicmetric API

A tour through the Musicmetric API, presented at the 2012 Sónar Musichackday in Barcelona

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1. 14 June 2012 Sónar MusicHackday
2. What Do We Do? • currently track and index data for: o 700,000 artists o > 10 million individual releases • near real-time tracking, with resolution: o hourly o daily o weekly 14 June 2012 Sónar MusicHackday
3. What Do We Do? 14 June 2012 Sónar MusicHackday
4. What Data is Available? • Artist-centric: oIdentification Service oTimeseries oSummary • Sentiment Analysis • Lists and Charts 14 June 2012 Sónar MusicHackday
5. What Data is Available? Identification Service • Get our data using many third-party IDs, including: o musicbrainz, last.fm, discog, facebook and more • Test if an id is known and get our internal ID via: http://api.semetric.com/artist/[id] details: http://developer.musicmetric.com/identification.html 14 June 2012 Sónar MusicHackday
6. What Data is Available? Timeseries • Data streams tracking behaviour in networks around an artist • Can use any ID scheme that we know directly • Result will be a list of integers inside the response envelope details: http://developer.musicmetric.com/timeseries.html 14 June 2012 Sónar MusicHackday
7. What Data is Available? Timeseries Available attributes: o fans o plays o comments o views o downloads details: http://developer.musicmetric.com/timeseries.html 14 June 2012 Sónar MusicHackday
8. What Data is Available? Timeseries Available sources: o last.fm o youtube o myspace o bittorrent details: http://developer.musicmetric.com/timeseries.html o vevo o twitter o facebook o soundcloud 14 June 2012 Sónar MusicHackday
9. What Data is Available? Fun with curl: $curl http://api.semetric.com/artist/\ fe66302b0aee49cfbd7d248403036def/\ kpi?token=YOURAPIKEYHERE returns... details: http://developer.musicmetric.com/summaries.html 14 June 2012 Sónar MusicHackday
10. What Data is Available? Fun with curl: {"response": { "fans": { "twitter": {"current": 40279, "total": 10346353, "previous": 40508}, "myspace": {"current": 786, "total": 1581722, "previous": 942}, "youtube": {"current": 748, "total": 475084, "previous": 814}, "facebook":{"current": 143681, "total": 34890295, "previous": 161061}, "lastfm": {"current": 4860, "total": 2344028, "previous": 3707}, "total": {"current": 190354, "total": 49637482, "previous": 207032}}, "plays": { "lastfm": {"current": 514975, "total": 113785570, "previous": 284464}, ... }, "success": true} details: http://developer.musicmetric.com/summaries.html 14 June 2012 Sónar MusicHackday
11. What Data is Available? Sentiment Analyser Determine the tone of a chunk of text from 1 (very negative) to 5 (very positive) details: http://developer.musicmetric.com/sentiment.html 14 June 2012 Sónar MusicHackday
12. What Data is Available? Sentiment Analyser • Send text chunks via an http POST to http://api.semetric.com/sentiment • Receive the score back as JSON details: http://developer.musicmetric.com/sentiment.html 14 June 2012 Sónar MusicHackday
13. What Data is Available? Lists and Charts • Meaningful groups of entities (mostly festivals): http://api.semetric.com/list • Global (and some country specific) rankings: http://api.semetric.com/chart details: http://developer.musicmetric.com/lists.html http://developer.musicmetric.com/charts.html 14 June 2012 Sónar MusicHackday
14. What Data is Available? Fun with python: >>> import mmpy >>> p2p_diff = mmpy.Chart("0695f0bba6144dfaa390e9b9f017ceab") >>> for rank, val, relgrp in p2p_diff.releasegroup[:10]: ... print rank, ':', relgrp.name, ':', val outputs... details: http://developer.musicmetric.com/charts.html 14 June 2012 Sónar MusicHackday
15. What Data is Available? Fun with python: 1 : Take Care : 53074 2 : 21 : 47434 3 : Payphone : 29123 4 : Payphone : 29123 5 : Somebody That I Used to Know : 25595 6 : Making Mirrors : 23338 7 : Somebody That I Used to Know : 20247 8 : Sorry For Party Rocking : 17224 9 : Boyfriend : 16976 10 : El Camino : 16507 details: http://developer.musicmetric.com/charts.html 14 June 2012 Sónar MusicHackday
16. Examples! 14 June 2012 Sónar MusicHackday
17. Examples! 14 June 2012 Sónar MusicHackday
18. Prizes! Plus Musicmetric pro accounts for a year for anyone who builds anything with our API (and any artists come speak with us for a 3 month account...) 14 June 2012 Sónar MusicHackday
19. Prizes! 14 June 2012 Sónar MusicHackday
20. Questions? • http://developer.musicmetric.com • on irc (freenode): #musicmetric_api • api@musicmetric.com Or talk to us throughout the weekend... 14 June 2012 Sónar MusicHackday
21. Questions? • http://developer.musicmetric.com • on irc (freenode): #musicmetric_api • api@musicmetric.com Or talk to us throughout the weekend... 14 June 2012 Sónar MusicHackday ---We’re hiring---