Musicmetric api v1 beta 2

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Overview•What Do We Do?•What Data Is Available?• Examples!• Prizes!• End.

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What Do We Do?• provide insights and understanding into consumer

behaviour online globally for the entertainment industry

• aggregate and analyse music-related information available on the webo websites mentions o social networks  o peer to peer networks o fans comments

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What Do We Do?• currently track and index data for:

o  600,000 artists o  > 10 million individual releases

• near real-time tracking, with resolution:ohourlyodailyoweekly

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What Data is Available?• Artist-centric:oIdentification ServiceoTimeseriesoSummary

•  Sentiment Analysis

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What Data is Available?    Identification Service

• Get our data using many third-party IDs, including:o musicbrainz, last.fm, discog, facebook and

more• Test if an id is known and get our internal ID via:

        http://apib1.semetric.com/artist/[id]

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details: http://developer.musicmetric.com/identification.html

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What Data is Available?    Timeseries

• Dense data about behaviour in networks about an artist

• Can use any ID scheme that we know directly• Result will be a list of integers inside the

response envelope

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details: http://developer.musicmetric.com/timeseries.html

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What Data is Available?    Timeseries

    Available attributes:o fansoplayso commentso views

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details: http://developer.musicmetric.com/timeseries.html

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What Data is Available?    Timeseries

    Available sources:o last.fmoyoutubeomyspaceo iLikeo twittero facebook

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details: http://developer.musicmetric.com/timeseries.html

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What Data is Available?    Summary data

     Provides a snapshot of fan behaviour right      now across many networks for an artist with     one call.

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details: http://developer.musicmetric.com/summaries.html

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What Data is Available?    Fun with curl:

$curl http://apib2.semetric.com/artist/\   fe66302b0aee49cfbd7d248403036def/\   kpi?token=YOURAPIKEYHERE

returns...

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details: http://developer.musicmetric.com/summaries.html

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What Data is Available?    Fun with curl:

{"response": {   "fans": {      "twitter": {"current": 40279, "total": 10346353, "previous": 40508},      "myspace": {"current": 786, "total": 1581722, "previous": 942},      "youtube": {"current": 748, "total": 475084, "previous": 814},      "facebook":{"current": 143681, "total": 34890295, "previous": 161061},      "lastfm": {"current": 4860, "total": 2344028, "previous": 3707},      "total": {"current": 190354, "total": 49637482, "previous": 207032}},    "plays": {      "lastfm": {"current": 514975, "total": 113785570, "previous": 284464},        ...     },"success": true}

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details: http://developer.musicmetric.com/summaries.html

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What Data is Available?    Sentiment Analyser

     Determine the tone of a chunk of text from      1 (very negative) to 5 (very positive)

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details: http://developer.musicmetric.com/sentiment.html

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What Data is Available?    Sentiment Analyser

• Send text chunks via an http POST to

    http://apib2.semetric.com/sentiment

• Receive the score back as JSON

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details: http://developer.musicmetric.com/sentiment.html

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Examples!• https://github.com/musicmetric/musicmetric_api

• https://github.com/musicmetric/Musicmetric-IRC-Bot

• https://github.com/gearmonkey/flamesense

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Prizes!

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Prizes!

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Plus Musicmetric pro accounts for a year for anyone who builds anything with our API

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Questions?

• http://developer.musicmetric.com• on irc (freenode): #musicmetric_api• api@musicmetric.com

Or talk to us throughout the weekend... 

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