How to get artist_Id by the name of the artist name?

[Soonk Paik]

I would like to pull the json/csv containing artist_id for each artist name.

To make myself clear, I attached the example below.

I understand that I could just search the name of the artist and could get the ID through the url box in my web-browser though, 

Is there any other way to get the information? or 

Can I get the information based on my list in Songkick?

Thank you

[mme...@gmail.com]

You can use the artist search API endpoint to do this: https://www.songkick.com/developer/artist-search

For example, https://api.songkick.com/api/3.0/search/artists.json?apikey={your API key}&query=Pomo returns the below. Because results are sorted by relevancy, you might be ok with picking the first result, if there is more than one match:

{"resultsPage": {"status": "ok","results": {"artist": [{"id": 1553001,"displayName": "Pomo","uri": "http://www.songkick.com/artists/1553001-pomo?utm_source=4181&utm_medium=partner","identifier": [{"mbid": "81f3a7a7-85da-4d13-8ab6-5b027b7a5f88","href": "http://api.songkick.com/api/3.0/artists/mbid:81f3a7a7-85da-4d13-8ab6-5b027b7a5f88.json","eventsHref": "http://api.songkick.com/api/3.0/artists/mbid:81f3a7a7-85da-4d13-8ab6-5b027b7a5f88/calendar.json","setlistsHref": "http://api.songkick.com/api/3.0/artists/mbid:81f3a7a7-85da-4d13-8ab6-5b027b7a5f88/setlists.json"}],"onTourUntil": null},{"id": 8617309,"displayName": "Il Pomo D'oro","uri": "http://www.songkick.com/artists/8617309-il-pomo-doro?utm_source=4181&utm_medium=partner","identifier": [{"mbid": "80e83913-b0d4-41f6-80b3-cf1119d025f8","href": "http://api.songkick.com/api/3.0/artists/mbid:80e83913-b0d4-41f6-80b3-cf1119d025f8.json","eventsHref": "http://api.songkick.com/api/3.0/artists/mbid:80e83913-b0d4-41f6-80b3-cf1119d025f8/calendar.json","setlistsHref": "http://api.songkick.com/api/3.0/artists/mbid:80e83913-b0d4-41f6-80b3-cf1119d025f8/setlists.json"}],"onTourUntil": "2020-12-16"},{"id": 7913404,"displayName": "Il Pomo D’oro – Riccardo Minasi","uri": "http://www.songkick.com/artists/7913404-il-pomo-doro-riccardo-minasi?utm_source=4181&utm_medium=partner","identifier": [],"onTourUntil": null},{"identifier": [],"displayName": "Pomo (with Nouvel Age)","uri": "http://www.songkick.com/artists/7119964-pomo-with-nouvel-age?utm_source=4181&utm_medium=partner","onTourUntil": null,"id": 7119964}]},"perPage": 50,"page": 1,"totalEntries": 4}}

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