aidy3

what's this?

This web application provide API to analyze ID3v2 tag in MP3 on the web. This API returns title/artist/album/genre via json/html format. Analyzed data can search with Google Base.

howto

rule

http://aidy3.buffr.org/get?url=[uri_encoded_mp3_url]&ref;_url=[uri_encoded_page_url(blog entry page contains link to mp3)]&format;=[html or json]

get as json

http://aidy3.buffr.org/get?url=http%3A%2F%2Fexample.com%2Fdummy.mp3 http://aidy3.buffr.org/get?url=http%3A%2F%2Fexample.com%2Fdummy.mp3&callback;=foobar

get as html

http://aidy3.buffr.org/get?url=http%3A%2F%2Fexample.com%2Fdummy.mp3&format;=html

refer analyze result as html

http://aidy3.buffr.org/entry/http://example.com/dummy.mp3

search

/serach (see also: JavaScript Tutorial - Google Base Data API - Google Code)

restriction

ID3 version2 only

support only ID3v2 because using HTTP Request with "Range:bytes=0-5000" header.

ID3v2 Tag size

0-5000byte

sample

Yahoo! Pipes

Page to Podcast (bookmarklet) / aidy3 search podcast / fix podcast entry title with aidy3 / id3

Google Base

you can search tracks on Google Base and get information via json feed.

Perl

WebService::Aidy3 / Plagger::Plugin::Filter::Aidy3

Python - scrape ubu.com and print id3 data

import time, re, urllib, urllib2, simplejson

aidy3_get_url = 'http://aidy3.buffr.org/get?url='
re_mp3 = re.compile(r'"(http://[^"]+?\.mp3)"')

req = urllib2.Request('http://www.ubu.com')
res = urllib2.urlopen(req).read()
links = re_mp3.findall(res)
for link in links:
    link = urllib.quote_plus(link)
    link = aidy3_get_url + link
    req = urllib2.Request(link)
    res = urllib2.urlopen(req).read()
    track = simplejson.loads(res)
    print "\n".join([track['title'], track['artist'], track['album'], track['genre'], track['url'], track['ref_url']])
    time.sleep(1)