Artist ID necessary?

[derx...@googlemail.com]

Hi there,

just test-implementing the Songkick API for our web site (www.valve-
magazine.net) and wondering, if it is really required to do 2 API
calls to get all events for an artist like
1.) get artist ID
2.) get events for artist ID

Is there a way around that?

Thanks a lot!
Thomas

[Sabrina Leandro]

Hi Thomas

Do you know which artists you want to get events from? What's your use case?

thanks

--
Sabrina Leandro

On Monday, 30 April 2012 at 08:17, derx...@googlemail.com wrote:

> Hi there,
>

> just test-implementing the Songkick API for our web site (www.valve- (http://www.valve-)
> magazine.net (http://magazine.net)) and wondering, if it is really required to do 2 API

[Mike Wyatt II]

How do I get off of this list???  I no longer use Songkick....thanks...

- Mike

[Thomas Henz]

Hi Sabrina,

use case would be "get all upcoming concerts in Germany for <artist>" where <artist> would be the actual name, eg U2, The Gaslight Anthem etc.

As far as I see it, the function for getting upcoming concerts takes as parameter the internal songkick artist ID, which I would need to get via another function first - or not?

Thanks a lot,

Thomas

[Sabrina Leandro]

> As far as I see it, the function for getting upcoming concerts takes as parameter the internal songkick artist ID, which I would need to get via another function first - or not?

Yes that's true. This is because artist names are not unique, and it would be ambiguous to use that to identify an artist. If you have a limited set of artists you want to search on, you could cache those ids locally.

--
Sabrina Leandro

On Tuesday, 1 May 2012 at 14:21, Thomas Henz wrote:

> Hi Sabrina,
>
> use case would be "get all upcoming concerts in Germany for <artist>" where <artist> would be the actual name, eg U2, The Gaslight Anthem etc.
>
> As far as I see it, the function for getting upcoming concerts takes as parameter the internal songkick artist ID, which I would need to get via another function first - or not?
>
> Thanks a lot,
> Thomas
>

> On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Sabrina Leandro <sab...@songkick.com (mailto:sab...@songkick.com)> wrote:
> > Hi Thomas
> >
> > Do you know which artists you want to get events from? What's your use case?
> >
> > thanks
> >
> > --
> > Sabrina Leandro
> >
> >
> > On Monday, 30 April 2012 at 08:17, derx...@googlemail.com (mailto:derx...@googlemail.com) wrote:
> >
> > > Hi there,
> > >

> > > just test-implementing the Songkick API for our web site (www.valve- (http://www.valve-) (http://www.valve-)
> > > magazine.net (http://magazine.net) (http://magazine.net)) and wondering, if it is really required to do 2 API

> > > calls to get all events for an artist like
> > > 1.) get artist ID
> > > 2.) get events for artist ID
> > >
> > > Is there a way around that?
> > >
> > > Thanks a lot!
> > > Thomas
> >
>
>

> --
> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Songkick API" group.
> To post to this group, send email to songki...@googlegroups.com (mailto:songki...@googlegroups.com).
> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to songkick-api...@googlegroups.com (mailto:songkick-api...@googlegroups.com).
> For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/songkick-api?hl=en.