Audio Artist Search Documentation for Yahoo! Search Web Services

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The Artist Search service is discussed on the yws-search-general mailing list.

Request URL

http://search.yahooapis.com/AudioSearchService/V1/artistSearch

Request parameters

See information on constructing REST queries

Parameter	Value	Description
appid	string (required)	The application ID. See Application IDs for more information.
artist	string	The artist or partial artist string to search for (UTF-8 encoded).
artistid	string	The specific id for an artist. Ids are internal to the Music Search Service and will be returned with artist references. One of artist or artistid is required.
type	all (default), any, or phrase	The kind of search to submit: all returns results with all query terms. any returns results with one or more of the query terms. phrase returns results containing the query terms as a phrase.
results	integer: default 10, max 50	The number of results to return.
start	integer: default 1	The starting result position to return (1-based). The finishing position (start + results - 1) cannot exceed 1000.
output	string: xml (default), json, php	The format for the output. If json is requested, the results will be returned in JSON format. If php is requested, the results will be returned in Serialized PHP format.
callback	string	The name of the callback function to wrap around the JSON data. The following characters are allowed: A-Z a-z 0-9 . [] and _. If output=json has not been requested, this parameter has no effect. More information on the callback can be found in the Yahoo! Developer Network JSON Documentation.

Sample Request Url: http://search.yahooapis.com/AudioSearchService/V1/artistSearch?appid=YahooDemo&artist=Madonna&results=2

Response fields

The schema document for this service response is located at http://search.yahooapis.com/AudioSearchService/V1/ArtistSearchResponse.xsd

Field	Description
ResultSet	Contains all of the query responses. Has attributes: totalResultsAvailable: The number of query matches in the database. totalResultsReturned: The number of query matches returned. This may be lower than the number of results requested if there were fewer total results available. firstResultPosition: The position of the first result in the overall search.
Result	Contains each individual response. Has an attribute: id: The id associated with the artist specified in this result.
Name	The name of the artist.
Thumbnail	The URL of a thumbnail picture of the artist and its height and width in pixels, if available.
RelatedArtists	Contains a list of related artists that fans of the artist in this Result might like.
Artist	The individual artist names (and associated ids) of the related artists.
PopularSongs	Contains a list of some popular songs by this artist.
Song	The individual song names (and ids) of the popular songs.
YahooMusicPage	The URL to link to the artist's page on Yahoo Music.

Sample response

The following is a sample response for the query Madonna:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<ResultSet xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="urn:yahoo:srchma" xsi:schemaLocation="urn:yahoo:srchmm http://search.yahooapis.com/AudioSearchService/V1/ArtistSearchResponse.xsd" totalResultsAvailable="5" totalResultsReturned="2" firstResultPosition="1">
	<Result id="XXXXXXP000064565">
		<Name>Madonna</Name>
		<Thumbnail>
			<Url>http://thm-sorbet.search.vip.scd.yahoo.com/image/1899924352</Url>
			<Height>60</Height>
			<Width>60</Width>
		</Thumbnail>
		<RelatedArtists>
			<Artist id="XXXXXXP000003495">Paula Abdul</Artist>
			<Artist id="XXXXXXP000004572">Janet Jackson</Artist>
			<Artist id="XXXXXXP000004909">George Michael</Artist>
		</RelatedArtists>
		<PopularSongs>
			<Song id="XXXXXXT002744460">Material Girl</Song>
			<Song id="165ef9ca499faa2a3ba0c1044ba9c3cc">Frozen</Song>
		</PopularSongs>
	</Result>
	<Result id="cadd45fc9f3e354f3b2a412e92a24fce">
		<Name>Shrine For The Black Madonna</Name>
	</Result>
</ResultSet>

Rate Limit

The Artist Search service is limited to 5,000 queries per IP address per day. See information on rate limiting and our Usage Policy to learn about acceptable uses and how to request additional queries.

Errors

The Artist Search service returns the standard errors. There are no service-specific errors.