Link to artist via ID

[Ben Scott]

Hi -

I'm using the echonest API to get info on some artists & I'd like to
link through to the 7digital site. I can get the 7digital artist ID -
but is it possible to use this in a link? For example
http://www.7digital.com/artist/11350, rather than having to use
http://www.7digital.com/artist/bob-dylan (which would require me to
hit your service to look up the artist again).

Cheers,

Ben

[Goncalo Pereira]

Hey Ben,

what we'd suggest is to register as an API client and use the artist API endpoint (which uses the ID) to get the URL.

http://api.7digital.com/1.2/static/documentation/7digitalpublicapi.html#artist/details

If it's not directly related with the .com website then I think that endpoint might have what you need.

http://developer.7digital.net/

Regards

Goncalo

--
Goncalo Pereira, Lead Developer for Services at 7digital

For API support please read this 

[Ben Scott]

Hi -

Thanks very much for getting back to me.

Cool, I'll do it like that then. Although it does seem a bit of a
shame another API call is necessary - it'd be much more useful if
echonest returned something to link to / the 7digital site could
resolve the ID.

Cheers,

Ben



On Feb 20, 5:25 pm, Goncalo Pereira <goncalo.pere...@7digital.com>
wrote:

> Hey Ben,
>
> what we'd suggest is to register as an API client and use the artist API
> endpoint (which uses the ID) to get the URL.
>

> http://api.7digital.com/1.2/static/documentation/7digitalpublicapi.ht...

>
> If it's not directly related with the .com website then I think that
> endpoint might have what you need.
>
> http://developer.7digital.net/
>
> Regards
> Goncalo
>
> On 20 February 2012 17:21, Ben Scott <b...@benscott.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > Hi -
>
> > I'm using the echonest API to get info on some artists & I'd like to
> > link through to the 7digital site. I can get the 7digital artist ID -
> > but is it possible to use this in a link? For example
> >http://www.7digital.com/artist/11350, rather than having to use

> >http://www.7digital.com/artist/bob-dylan(which would require me to

> > hit your service to look up the artist again).
>
> > Cheers,
>
> > Ben
>
> --

> Goncalo Pereira <http://www.goncalopereira.com>, Lead Developer for
> Services<http://developer.7digital.net/>
>  at 7digital <http://www.7digital.com/>

> For API support please read

> this<http://blogs.7digital.com/dev/2011/07/29/improving-api-customer-support/>

[ktryg...@gmail.com]

Just want to 2nd Ben's comment, it would be great to be able to link directly to a track/artist/release on 7digital if you have the id for said track/artist/relase.