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A collection of free/public APIs you can use to build stuff

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Re: A collection of free/public APIs you can use to build stuff

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Post by nullify88 »

OJFord wrote: post #7
nullify88 wrote: post #6

Anyone know of a API to fetch high quality music artist and album art? I've been meaning to make something which sniffs whats playing on my Chromecast and display it on a screen but I've had difficulty finding a good source of art. Thank you for the suggestions :)

Spotify? Or is that not high quality enough? https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/referenc... (Or there's a bunch of others in the submission under 'music'.)

When querying the chromecast for now playing media when using Spotify Connect, the response contains spotify album art urls. I haven't verified whether its the same as directly querying the spotify api but at first glance the images weren't as big as I'd like them to be.

I'd also like a variety of artist images as a backdrop which is hit and miss.

Thanks for the suggestion though.

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Post by easrng »

nullify88 wrote: post #6

Anyone know of a API to fetch high quality music artist and album art? I've been meaning to make something which sniffs whats playing on my Chromecast and display it on a screen but I've had difficulty finding a good source of art. Thank you for the suggestions :)

The iTunes has an amazing free API: https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Au...

By default the images it returns are small but you can get the full res ones easily. Here's some example code (not mine): https://github.com/bendodson/itunes-artwork-finder/blob/mast...

Re: A collection of free/public APIs you can use to build stuff

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Post by Stevvo »

zerop wrote: post #2

Nice list. I looked at a few now. But since these are public/free APIs, I would be careful using them into production work, mainly for stability/scale reasons. Good for research/Prototype etc, IMO.

Some free APIs run by governments provide fairly good stability as they fall under the umbrella of "critical infrastructure".

Re: A collection of free/public APIs you can use to build stuff

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Post by LeonB »

stefanvdw1 wrote: post #4

Nice list! I’ve used one of the art APIs listed, the Rijksmuseum one, to built a website which will show you a random object from their massive collection on each button click: https://randomrijks.com

rijksroll is right there! (The .com is available)

(Nice work though :))

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Post by r3trohack3r »

nullify88 wrote: post #6

Anyone know of a API to fetch high quality music artist and album art? I've been meaning to make something which sniffs whats playing on my Chromecast and display it on a screen but I've had difficulty finding a good source of art. Thank you for the suggestions :)

I used Deezer for https://audile.app and have been really happy.

Re: A collection of free/public APIs you can use to build stuff

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Post by brdbkr »

nullify88 wrote: post #6

Anyone know of a API to fetch high quality music artist and album art? I've been meaning to make something which sniffs whats playing on my Chromecast and display it on a screen but I've had difficulty finding a good source of art. Thank you for the suggestions :)

The Cover Art Archive[1] is a joint project between the Internet Archive and MusicBrainz, whose goal is to make cover art images available to everyone on the Internet in an organised and convenient way.

[1] https://coverartarchive.org/

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Post by DrJones1098 »

zerop wrote: post #2

Nice list. I looked at a few now. But since these are public/free APIs, I would be careful using them into production work, mainly for stability/scale reasons. Good for research/Prototype etc, IMO.

To help with the real time, could maybe add a layer of hot caching or the user could submit a batch job. if one fails, it's not blowing up the request.

Re: A collection of free/public APIs you can use to build stuff

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Post by scns »

nullify88 wrote: post #6

Anyone know of a API to fetch high quality music artist and album art? I've been meaning to make something which sniffs whats playing on my Chromecast and display it on a screen but I've had difficulty finding a good source of art. Thank you for the suggestions :)

I usually get mine manually from [0]. A lot of work, but i get to choose the cover i like best.

[0] https://discogs.com

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