Database Reference
In-Depth Information
"website":"http://rihannanow.com","ItemInfo":{"Relevancy":{"index":"465"}}},
...
This site has assembled a large collection of information on music artists and works, and it has
made the results available for download under
an open license
.
It's reusable under a mixture of
public domain and Creative Commons licensing, depending on the attributes you're looking at.
You can also access the same data through the online REST/XML API, where you can look up
artists and works and get back quite a lot of information, not only about the people and albums,
but also about their relationships to one another:
curl "http://musicbrainz.org/ws/1/artist/?type=xml&name=Tori+Amos"
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
...
<artist type="Person" id="c0b2500e-0cef-4130-869d-732b23ed9df5" ext:score="100">
<name>Tori Amos</name><sort-name>Amos, Tori</sort-name>
<life-span begin="1963-08-22"/></artist>
...
A rival site to the well-established IMDB, Movie DB has an API that gives you access to details
on a wide range of movies. The
terms of service
aren't too constraining, with no requirement
that your project be immediately end-user-facing, though Movie DB does discourage caching of
data. I couldn't ind any information on rate limits:
curl "http://api.themoviedb.org/2.1/Movie.search/en/xml/<key>/Transformers"
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<OpenSearchDescription xmlns:opensearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/">
<opensearch:Query searchTerms="transformers"/>
<opensearch:totalResults>8</opensearch:totalResults>
<movies>
<movie>
<score></score>
<popularity>3</popularity>
<translated></translated>
<adult>false</adult>
<language>en</language>
<original_name>Transformers</original_name>
<name>Transformers</name>
<alternative_name>The Transformers</alternative_name>
