Beatport Song Previews using API?

[Jaskaran Rana]

Is it possible to access Beatport Previews for each song using the Beatport API? If so, how?

[Taylor Rose]

Previews are not available

On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 5:50 AM, Jaskaran Rana <jaskar...@gmail.com> wrote:

Is it possible to access Beatport Previews for each song using the Beatport API? If so, how?

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[Edu Zaka]

Wow, it's true ... the new API have no previews. Why are these removed? Is also removed the access to the featured releases and banners? Do you'll improve the API?? I'm missing some data that were in version 2... for example, the track previews are really great for label websites!

Thanks.

pd. Can you help me in the other post please?

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[Adau]

You can still get the preview of a track using this URL :
http://geo-samples.beatport.com/lofi/XXXXXX.LOFI.mp3 where X is the ID of the track object.

[Rich Hofer]

Hi Edu - If there's a business case that additional API access is required for your key, please request it via the a...@beatport.com email address and each instance will be reviewed. 

Thanks,

Rich

[Edu Zaka]

Yes, I know... but I think that it should be in the API. :(

[Edu Zaka]

Hi Rich, 

is not really a business but I have some websites working with the beatport API (labels and artists)... but maybe in the future I would make some services (for free).

I wrote to api(at)beatport last month to explain my case, and I sent some URLs of examples... I have the same KEY than months ago (I think you answered me). 

Do I have to re-write an email to api(at)beatport? What's the difference between my key and bussiness key?

By other hand, when I use oauth I can connect like a charm but it only works the first time, later is like the token has expired.

Thanks a lot.

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[Jaskaran Rana]

Thanks a lot for this.

[J Warren]

Unfortunately, this no longer works as they seem to be using a guid instead of the ID. Passing the ID now returns a 403. Anyone know how to get around this? The guys at crates.co seem to have figured it out.

[Jaskaran Rana]

Yeah, just realised it broke my app as well. Anyone else figure out how to get the guid?

[Tobias Haase]

Anyone found a solution? I just wrote an email to the beatport support. Waiting for answer.

[Hendrik Schreiber]

I'm also interested in this... 

The problem could be solved (at least for me), if BeatPort returned the following JSON snippet in their public API. The private internal API/data model seems to do this already:

"preview": {

        "mp3": {

          "offset": {

            "end": 238792,

            "start": 118792

          },

          "url": "https://geo-samples.beatport.com/track/83913685-46c7-4703-aa97-3b48100ce7c6.LOFI.mp3"

        },

        "mp4": {

          "offset": {

            "end": 238792,

            "start": 118792

          },

          "url": "https://geo-samples.beatport.com/track/83913685-46c7-4703-aa97-3b48100ce7c6.LOFI.mp4"

        }

      },

Thanks.

[Hendrik Schreiber]

Beatport support answered that one needs an additional permission to see the preview part.

Not sure why this isn't turned on by default, but you might want to request that this permission is added to your current list of permissions.