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Reputation: 2227

Musicbrainz artist image and information

I have managed to get an artist's information using the following 

http://musicbrainz.org/ws/2/artist/?query=artist:michael%20jackson

Which returns the MBID (or ID). The response here returns back a lot of information but not an image of the Artist.

So further reading leads me to CoverArt (https://musicbrainz.org/doc/Cover_Art) and https://archive.org/ and to get an image its led me to this link https://musicbrainz.org/doc/Cover_Art_Archive/API, which is targeting the release and not the Artist (the way i understand it, is, the release is the artwork of an album that an artist has done, but what i require is an image of the artist itself.

I'm not sure how to obtain the artist's image or if im going the wrong way about it as I've read a lot of links but i think im missing something here and wondered if anyone could advise? As far as i know and think i need the ID of the artist to start with but using the release entity doesnt return the image of an artist and ive substituted release with artist but that returns a 404.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 7570

Answers (1)

JonnyJD
JonnyJD

Reputation: 2643

With that query you get the MBID. Then you can make this lookup: http://musicbrainz.org/ws/2/artist/f27ec8db-af05-4f36-916e-3d57f91ecf5e?inc=url-rels

Note the inc=url-rels part. More details and other possibilities are given in the MusicBrainz XML Web Service Documentation.

You can't get the urls from the search directly.

Upvotes: 4

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