I use the following in my attempt to get a list of album release from Hank Mobley, a Blue Note jazz musician:
library(magrittr);library(httr)
releasesHM<-httr::GET("https://api.discogs.com/artists/135872/releases")
This result is error free and I get 15k of data, but I can't seem to identify the content in the 10-item list that results:
Response [https://api.discogs.com/artists/135872/releases]
Date: 2019-01-09 14:19
Status: 200
Content-Type: application/json
Size: 15.7 kB
discogs says I should have the title and year of each release from this artist. Can anyone offer a solution/guidance?
Thank you!
The output is in JSON, so use package jsonlite to import it:
library(jsonlite)
releasesHM <- fromJSON("https://api.discogs.com/artists/135872/releases")
You'll get a list with the data.
Titles:
> head(releasesHM$releases$title)
[1] "The Max Roach Quartet Featuring Hank Mobley"
[2] "Mobley's Message"
[3] "Jazz Message #2"
[4] "The Jazz Message Of"
[5] "Base On Balls / Stella-Wise"
[6] "Lower Stratosphere / Reunion"
Artists:
> head(releasesHM$releases$artist)
[1] "The Max Roach Quartet* Featuring Hank Mobley"
[2] "Hank Mobley"
[3] "Hank Mobley"
[4] "Donald Byrd, Hank Mobley, Horace Silver, Doug Watkins, John La Porta*, Ronnie Ball, Wendell Marshall, Kenny Clarke"
[5] "Hank Mobley"
[6] "Hank Mobley"