The Spotify Metadata API has been deprecated. Please use the new Spotify Web API instead. If you are looking for a ruby library for that, try RSpotify.

A ruby wrapper for the Spotify Metadata API. See here for usage: http://developer.spotify.com/en/metadata-api/overview/

Use of the API is subject to the Terms and Conditions: http://developer.spotify.com/en/metadata-api/terms-of-use/

gem install meta-spotify

The API has two services for the three types of data, artists, albums and tracks:

To look up an artist, album or track, simply call:

MetaSpotify::Artist.lookup(spotify_uri)
MetaSpotify::Album.lookup(spotify_uri)

or

MetaSpotify::Track.lookup(spotify_uri)

e.g.

artist = MetaSpotify::Artist.lookup("spotify:artist:4YrKBkKSVeqDamzBPWVnSJ")
#=> #<MetaSpotify::Artist:0x119764c @name="Basement Jaxx">

artist.name
#=> "Basement Jaxx"

You can also call lookup with the extras parameter, but only the acceptable extras will yield results, e.g.

artist = MetaSpotify::Artist.lookup('spotify:artist:4YrKBkKSVeqDamzBPWVnSJ', :extras => 'album')

artist.albums.first.name
#=> "Jaxx Unreleased"

To search for an artist, album or track works the same way as lookup, simply call:

MetaSpotify::Artist.search(search_term)
MetaSpotify::Album.search(search_term)

or MetaSpotify::Track.search(search_term)

e.g.

search = MetaSpotify::Artist.search('foo')

search.artists.first.name
#=> "Foo fighters"

For searches with many results, the result also contains details on pages and you can return page 2 like this:

MetaSpotify::Artist.search('foo', :page => 2)

This is very new, so please let me know of any problems or anything that is missing.

Copyright (c) 2009 Phil Nash. See LICENSE for details.