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This is very exciting. Will we see a finalized version of the API or can we assume it will be like this for a long time and use it as a production API?
Would be good if albums had their url the way tracks do. I could recreate the url using the album title, but that might be fraught depending on whether there are non-ascii characters present (eg http://angryrabbit.bandcamp.com/album/kleiner-wasserb-r).
Yeah, you don’t want to construct the URL yourself, there’s some fancy code behind how we come up with the slugs. Turns out version 2 of the album API returns the URL — I added this just a few weeks ago and I haven’t had a chance to update the documentation. Just hit /album/2 instead of /album/1 in the examples. Joe
For anyone looking at using this API with the Drupal web CMS, I’ve built a tool for importing Bandcamp content into Drupal 7. At the moment it’s not of much use, (it’s largely waiting for Drupal 7 itself to mature), though it may be of interest to others going down this road.
2010-06-14 at 17:56:10
This is very exciting. Will we see a finalized version of the API or can we assume it will be like this for a long time and use it as a production API?
2010-06-14 at 17:58:49
This is the “final” version of version 1 of the various APIs and you can use them in production. Future changes will be called version 2.
2010-11-07 at 17:29:52
Very informative blog post. Want more.
2010-12-31 at 02:10:21
Would be good if albums had their url the way tracks do. I could recreate the url using the album title, but that might be fraught depending on whether there are non-ascii characters present (eg http://angryrabbit.bandcamp.com/album/kleiner-wasserb-r).
2010-12-31 at 03:32:26
Yeah, you don’t want to construct the URL yourself, there’s some fancy code behind how we come up with the slugs. Turns out version 2 of the album API returns the URL — I added this just a few weeks ago and I haven’t had a chance to update the documentation. Just hit /album/2 instead of /album/1 in the examples. Joe
2010-12-31 at 04:00:42
Thanks! :)
2011-01-07 at 10:19:05
Hi Joel, further question: Is the album release date relative to UTC or the uploader’s timezone?
Thanks!
Stuart
2011-01-07 at 10:19:36
Sorry, Joe rather :)
2011-01-12 at 10:16:19
For anyone looking at using this API with the Drupal web CMS, I’ve built a tool for importing Bandcamp content into Drupal 7. At the moment it’s not of much use, (it’s largely waiting for Drupal 7 itself to mature), though it may be of interest to others going down this road.
More information at http://groups.drupal.org/node/117669 including some debate about the API and Bandcamp’s models. Golly!