#musicbrainz

how do i use the API endpoint https://musicbrainz.org/ws/2/search/url? i'm trying to lookup whether a given URL already exists as a musicbrainz entity, but all my queries result in a 404

i'm reading https://musicbrainz.org/doc/MusicBrainz_API and i've tried with and without url encoding, with and without a trailing slash, and so on, testing with this example URL from the docs https://musicbrainz.org/url/39487af5-3c06-49c5-...

ideally i'd be able to query with http://www.nin.com/ and get back the MBID

scott: did you manage? If not I can try to help :)

reosarevok: hi! no luck yet, what do you think i should try?

Well, I can help either way :D

That should do what you want

I don't remember re: escaping vs not escaping, but play around

I do think the trailing slash vs no trailing slash does matter though

Which is a bit silly, but :/

ahh, i think it occurred to me i might have to specify the field (to match the "URL: ...") that appears in the front-end HTML, but then i think i forgot about that idea

thanks

https://musicbrainz.org/ws/2/url?resource=http:... seems equivalent and *does* ignore the slash

But then you'd need to set your own inc= params for more info (https://musicbrainz.org/doc/MusicBrainz_API#inc.3D)

oh hm, i think i missed the paragraph in the API docs that mention ?resource= for URLs

sounds like it's the intended one: "The URL endpoint's 'resource' entity is for providing a URL directly, rather than a URL MBID"

Yeah. The first URL I gave you is a search server query: it hits the search and returns whatever is indexed (so usually a fair amount of info but you can't configure it)

The second is a server browse, so it hits the database and gives you less info at first but you can ask for more

Depending on what you want to do, you can pick either :)

(for other kinds of entities there's a bigger difference between the two, but URL is weird)

i had a couple of things i wanted to try, and it turns out ?query and ?resource are both things i wanted - specifically queries like https://musicbrainz.org/ws/2/url/?query=url:*ra... can answer "is this website ever used in musicbrainz"

so thanks :)

HDtracks changed their URL structure and all old links were invalidated: https://musicbrainz.org/edit/72332341

their new website is completely overhauled and they took the opportunity to close down the UK one (and a few others)

Most recent attempt of artist trying to take down everything in MB: https://musicbrainz.org/user/kidnplay1992

Argh

Whyyy wouldn't they redirect

oratlast give us a database of old link to new link pairs so we could update outrs!