A simple client for the MusicBrainz web service, largely inspired by the musicbrainz gem by Gregory Eremin
Add these line to your application's Gemfile:
gem 'musicbrainz', github: 'inkstak/musicbrainz', tag: '1.2.0'
Ruby >= 2.5 required.
client = MusicBrainz::Client.new
search = client.artists 'Nirvana'
artist = client.artist '5b11f4ce-a62d-471e-81fc-a69a8278c7da'
You first need to setup a global configuration:
MusicBrainz.configure do |c|
c.app_name = 'MyApp'
c.app_version = '0.0.1.alpha'
c.contact = '[email protected]'
end
client = MusicBrainz::Client.new
The app_name
, app_version
& contact
values are required before running any requests accordingly to the MusicBrainz best practises.
You may also use middlewares to avoid being blocked or throttled, to implement caching or instrumentation.
You can request following assets:
- artists
- release_groups
- releases
- recordings
Lookup requests return a single item. The name of the method is the singular name of the asset.
client.artist '67f66c07-6e61-4026-ade5-7e782fad3a5d'
# => #<MusicBrainz::Artist>
Lookup requests support subqueries & relationships as described in API manual
through the :includes
option.
client.artist '5b11f4ce-a62d-471e-81fc-a69a8278c7da', includes: 'url-rels'
# => #<MusicBrainz::Artist urls: [...]>
Search requests use the plural named method to return an array of assets.
client.artists 'Foo Fighters'
# => [#<MusicBrainz::Artist>, #<MusicBrainz::Artist>, ...]
Search requests support Indexed Search Syntax.
client.artists '30 seconds'
# => [#<MusicBrainz::Artist name: "Thirty Seconds to Mars">, #<MusicBrainz::Artist name: "30 Seconds Over Tokyo">, #<MusicBrainz::Artist name: "30 Seconds GO!">, ...]
client.artists q: { artist: '30 seconds to mars' }
# => []
client.artists q: { alias: '30 seconds to mars' }
# => [#<MusicBrainz::Artist name: "Thirty Seconds to Mars">]
client.artists q: 'artist:"30 seconds to mars" OR alias:"30 seconds to mars"'
# => [#<MusicBrainz::Artist name: "Thirty Seconds to Mars">]
By default, search params are linked by the AND operator. You can keep the hash syntax by passing an operator:
client.artists q: { artist: '30 seconds to mars', alias: '30 seconds to mars' }
# => []
client.artists q: { artist: '30 seconds to mars', alias: '30 seconds to mars' }, operator: 'OR'
# => [#<MusicBrainz::Artist name: "Thirty Seconds to Mars">]
You can also perform a browse request to return all the entities directly linked to another.
Such requests only work with a valid MBID.
client.artists release: '7a7b7bb2-5abe-3088-9e3e-6bfd54035138'
# => [#<MusicBrainz::Artist name: "Dick Dale and His Del-Tones">, #<MusicBrainz::Artist name: "Kool & The Gang">, #<MusicBrainz::Artist name: "Al Green">, ...]
Be careful: some attributes available in lookup requests may be missing in search results.
# Artist lookup
client.artist '5b11f4ce-a62d-471e-81fc-a69a8278c7da'
client.artist '5b11f4ce-a62d-471e-81fc-a69a8278c7da', includes: 'url-rels'
client.artist '5b11f4ce-a62d-471e-81fc-a69a8278c7da', includes: %w(url-rels artist-rels)
# Artists search
client.artists 'Nirvana'
client.artists 'Nirvana', limit: 10
# Artists indexed search
client.artists q: { artist: 'Nirvana', country: 'se' }
client.artists q: { artist: '30 seconds to mars', alias: '30 seconds to mars' }, operator: 'OR'
client.artists q: { tag: 'Punk' }, limit: 2
# Artists browse
client.artists release: '7a7b7bb2-5abe-3088-9e3e-6bfd54035138'
# Release lookup
client.release_group 'fb3770f6-83fb-32b7-85c4-1f522a92287e'
client.release_group 'fb3770f6-83fb-32b7-85c4-1f522a92287e', includes: %w(url-rels)
# Releases search
client.release_groups 'MTV Unplugged in New York'
client.release_groups q: { release_group: 'Bleach', arid: '5b11f4ce-a62d-471e-81fc-a69a8278c7da', status: 'official' }
# Releases browse
client.release_groups artist: '5b11f4ce-a62d-471e-81fc-a69a8278c7da'
# Release lookup
client.release 'c1ef70f1-f88d-311f-87d4-b2766d8ca0ae'
client.release 'c1ef70f1-f88d-311f-87d4-b2766d8ca0ae', includes: %w(recordings)
# Releases search
client.releases 'MTV Unplugged in New York'
client.releases q: { release: 'Bleach', rgid: 'f1afec0b-26dd-3db5-9aa1-c91229a74a24' }
# Releases browse
client.releases artist: '5b11f4ce-a62d-471e-81fc-a69a8278c7da'
client.releases release_group: '6845bbd5-6af9-3bbf-9235-d8beea55da1a'
# Record lookup
client.recording 'd6243d55-bb4f-4518-9c1c-d507a5d3843a'
# Records search
client.recordings 'Devil on my shoulder'
client.recordings 'Devil on my shoulder', limit: 2
client.recordings q: { recording: 'State of the Union', arid: '606bf117-494f-4864-891f-09d63ff6aa4b' }}
# Records browse
client.recordings release: 'e5acb0c3-3a10-48b8-ade0-62d9db1a947b' }
The MusicBrainz::Client
uses Faraday middlewares to control requests cycle.
Take a look at faraday_middleware.
You may implement simple response body caching like that:
client = MusicBrainz::Client.new do |c|
c.response :caching, ActiveSupport::Cache.lookup_store(:file_store, './tmp/cache')
end
Inside a Rails app, it will look like:
client = MusicBrainz::Client.new do |c|
c.response :caching, Rails.cache
end
To ensure your client won't spam the API as required by MusicBrainz good practices, this gem provides a Throttler middleware that requires an interval between each request. This middleware needs cache.
client = MusicBrainz::Client.new do |c|
c.request :throttler, Rails.cache, interval: 1.second
end
- Fork the repository
- Create a feature branch
- Ensure tests & Rubocop are passing
- Create a pull request
RSpec & Rubocop can be launched through guard:
bundle exec guard
To quickly run a console:
bundle exec irb -r './console.rb'
Copyright (c) 2021 Savater Sebastien.
See LICENSE for further details.
Largely inspired by the musicbrainz gem by Gregory Eremin
Contributors: ./graphs/contributors