Class MusicExtras::AllMusic
In: lib/musicextras/musicsites/allmusic.rb
Parent: MusicSite

This is an implementation of MusicSite for www.allmusic.com

Methods

biography   check_for_violation   cover   get_album_urls   image   new   review   test   tracks   year   years_active  

Constants

NAME = 'AllMusic'
URL = 'www.allmusic.com'
DESCRIPTION = 'Artist images, album covers, years active, biography and album reviews for many genres'
ACCESS_VIOLATION_MSG = "Through traffic and monitoring of our websites"
COMMON_REGEX = '<a href="\/cg\/amg.dll\?p=amg&sql=([^"]*)">([^<]*)<\/a>'

Public Class methods

Public Instance methods

biography(new_artist)

Fetches artist biography info, returning nil if none is found

artist
an Artist object

Calls get_artist_page

check_for_violation(html)

AllMusic.com seems to check for an abnormal number of accesses from IPs. This method should be called after initial fetches to see if the user is in violation. If so, it will print the message to stdout and exit with error code 100

cover(new_album)

Fetches album cover from the site, returning the image as a binary string

album
an Album Object

Note: returns nil if something went wrong

get_album_urls()

Returns an array: [album, album_url] or nil if none were found

image(new_artist)

Fetches artist image from site, returning the image as a binary string

artist
an Artist object

Note: returns nil if somethign went wrong (including not being able to find the artist image)

review(new_album)

Fetches album review, returning nil if none is found

album
an Album object
tracks(new_album)

Fetches the track listing for a page

years_active(new_artist)

Fetches the years the artist was active for, returning nil if not found

artist
an Artist object

[Validate]