WebService::Audioscrobbler::Artist - An object-oriented interface to the Audioscrobbler WebService API
This module implements an object oriented abstraction of an artist within the Audioscrobbler database.
use WebService::Audioscrobbler; my $ws = WebService::Audioscrobbler->new; # get an object for artist named 'foo' my $artist = $ws->artist('foo'); # fetch artists similar to 'foo' my @similar = $artist->similar_artists; print "Artists similar to: " . $artist->name . "\n"; # prints each one of their names for my $similar (@similar) { print $similar->name . "\n"; } # retrieves tracks from 'foo' my @tracks = $artist->tracks; # retrieves tags associated with 'foo' my @tags = $artist->tags;
This module inherits from WebService::Audioscrobbler::Base.
name
The name of a given artist as provided when constructing the object.
mbid
MusicBrainz ID as provided by the Audioscrobbler database.
picture_url
URI object pointing to the location of the artist's picture, if available.
streamable
Flag indicating whether the artist has streamable content available.
new($artist_name, $data_fetcher)
new(\%fields)
Creates a new object using either the given $artist_name or the \%fields hashref. The data fetcher object is a mandatory parameter and must be provided either as the second parameter or inside the \%fields hashref.
$artist_name
\%fields
similar_artists([$filter])
related_artists([$filter])
artists([$filter])
Retrieves similar artists from the Audioscrobbler database. $filter can be used to limit artist with a low similarity index (ie. artists which have a similarity index lower than $filter won't be returned).
Returns either a list of artists or a reference to an array of artists when called in list context or scalar context, respectively. The artists are returned as WebService::Audioscrobbler::SimilarArtist objects by default.
tracks
Retrieves the artist's top tracks as available on Audioscrobbler's database.
Returns either a list of tracks or a reference to an array of tracks when called in list context or scalar context, respectively. The tracks are returned as WebService::Audioscrobbler::Track objects by default.
tags
Retrieves the artist's top tags as available on Audioscrobbler's database.
Returns either a list of tags or a reference to an array of tags when called in list context or scalar context, respectively. The tags are returned as WebService::Audioscrobbler::Tag objects by default.
load_fields(\%data)
Loads artist fields from the hashref \%data.
\%data
resource_path
Returns the URL from which other URLs used for fetching artist info will be derived from.
Nilson Santos Figueiredo Junior, <nilsonsfj at cpan.org>
<nilsonsfj at cpan.org>
Copyright 2006-2007 Nilson Santos Figueiredo Junior, all rights reserved.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
To install WebService::Audioscrobbler, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm WebService::Audioscrobbler
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install WebService::Audioscrobbler
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.