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ramSharma
ramSharma

Reputation: 91

how to get "billboard hot 100" chart listing via billboard API

I have been trying for hours on how to exactly get the "billboard hot 100" chart (The results matching to http://www.billboard.com/#/charts/hot-100)... but have had no success till yet.

I have gone through the API documentation at http://developer.billboard.com/docs thoroughly...

And from what i understand from here -> developer.billboard.com/docs/read/The_Chart_Service/Resources/Chart_Spec "billboard hot 100" has id "379"

But when i use it in chart item call, like this -> api.billboard.com/apisvc/chart/v1/list?id=379&format=json&api_key=bvk4re5h37dzvx87h7rf5dqz

i just get an error :(

if anyone has experience using the api please help me...

Thanks

Upvotes: 9

Views: 20296

Answers (3)

ultrageek
ultrageek

Reputation: 627

According to an entry on ProgrammableWeb, the Billboard API was officially terminated in May 2013.

As Matthew Moisen suggested above, try the Python module billboard.py. I just tried it a few minutes ago. While it's limited in fields (and maybe charts), it does provide basic data for at least the top-100 chart.

Here is the github repo: https://github.com/guoguo12/billboard-charts

Upvotes: 0

P. Galbraith
P. Galbraith

Reputation: 2527

Update 2020-01-21

The RSS feed is now dead. You can view a historical snapshot of the feed at archive.org https://web.archive.org/web/2020*/http://www.billboard.com/rss/charts/hot-100.

However you will likely need to use web scraping to get the data now.

The Billboard API seems to dead now with no sign of anyone maintaining it.

However they do provide a rss feed for the Hot 100 see http://www.billboard.com/rss/charts/hot-100. You might be able to get the information you need from that.

Upvotes: 12

Matthew Moisen
Matthew Moisen

Reputation: 18299

If you happen to know Python, check out billboard.py.

From the linked page:

pip install billboard.py

>>> import billboard
>>> chart = billboard.ChartData('hot-100')
>>> song = chart[0]  # Get no. 1 song on chart
>>> song.title
u'One Dance'
>>> song.artist
u'Drake Featuring WizKid & Kyla'
>>> song.weeks  # Number of weeks on chart
15
>>> song.spotifyID
u'11hqMWwX7sF3sOGdtijofF'

Upvotes: 2

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