musicbrainzngs

Musicbrainz NGS bindings ########################

This library implements webservice bindings for the Musicbrainz NGS site, also known as /ws/2 and the Cover Art Archive <https://coverartarchive.org/>_.

For more information on the musicbrainz webservice see <http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/XML_Web_Service>_.

Usage

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.. code:: python

# Import the module
import musicbrainzngs

# If you plan to submit data, authenticate
musicbrainzngs.auth("user", "password")

# Tell musicbrainz what your app is, and how to contact you
# (this step is required, as per the webservice access rules
# at http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/XML_Web_Service/Rate_Limiting )
musicbrainzngs.set_useragent("Example music app", "0.1", "http://example.com/music")

# If you are connecting to a different server
musicbrainzngs.set_hostname("beta.musicbrainz.org")

See the query.py file for more examples.

More documentation is available at Read the Docs <https://python-musicbrainzngs.readthedocs.org>_.

Contribute

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If you want to contribute to this repository, please read the contribution guidelines <https://github.com/alastair/python-musicbrainzngs/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md>_ first.

Authors

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These bindings were written by Alastair Porter <http://github.com/alastair>_. Contributions have been made by:

• Adrian Sampson <https://github.com/sampsyo>_
• Corey Farwell <https://github.com/frewsxcv>_
• Galen Hazelwood <https://github.com/galenhz>_
• Greg Ward <https://github.com/gward>_
• Ian McEwen <https://github.com/ianmcorvidae>_
• Jérémie Detrey <https://github.com/jdetrey>_
• Johannes Dewender <https://github.com/JonnyJD>_
• Michael Marineau <https://github.com/marineam>_
• Patrick Speiser <https://github.com/doskir>_
• Pavan Chander <https://github.com/navap>_
• Paul Bailey <https://github.com/paulbailey>_
• Rui Gonçalves <https://github.com/ruippeixotog>_
• Ryan Helinski <https://github.com/rlhelinski>_
• Sam Doshi <https://github.com/samdoshi>_
• Shadab Zafar <https://github.com/dufferzafar>_
• Simon Chopin <https://github.com/laarmen>_
• Thomas Vander Stichele <https://github.com/thomasvs>_
• Wieland Hoffmann <https://github.com/mineo>_

License

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This library is released under the simplified BSD license except for the file musicbrainzngs/compat.py which is licensed under the ISC license. See COPYING for details.