Nashville
Note: This project is no longer being maintained.
Nashville is a wrapper and command line interface for querying the iTunes Store API.
Nashville is named after the eponymous Capital of Country Music (and Tennesee), home of the Grand 'Ole Opry and the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum.
Installation
$ gem install nashville
Usage
require 'nashville'
Nashville::Movie.search(director: "Wes Anderson")
Nashville::Music::Artist.search(artist: "Miles Davis", limit: 5)For more information about parameters and general usage, check out Apple's documentation for the iTunes Affiliate Search API.
Command Line Interface
Nashville also comes with the its binary, which allows you to query the iTunes Store from the command line:
$ its search --help
Usage: its search QUERY
Examples:
# search
its search "Jamiroquai"
Options:
-m, --media MEDIA The media type to search for
-e, --entity ENTITY The type of results to be returned, relative to the specified media type.
-a, --attribute ATTRIBUTE The attribute to be searched for in the stores, relative to the specified media type.
--limit LIMIT The maximum number of results to return.
--language LANGUAGE The language, English or Japanese, to use when returning search results.
-p, --secret SECRET Use a shared secret for auto-renewable subscription receipts
-X, --[no-]explicit Include explicit content in search results.
$ its search "Blue in Green" --media music --entity song
50 Results
+------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Result 1 |
+------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| artistId | 44984 |
| artistName | Miles Davis |
| artistViewUrl | https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/miles-davis/id44984?uo=4 |
| artworkUrl100 | http://a3.mzstatic.com/us/r30/Music/75/d7/9e/mzi.tugmofjx.100x100-75.jpg |
| artworkUrl30 | http://a3.mzstatic.com/us/r30/Music/75/d7/9e/mzi.tugmofjx.30x30-50.jpg |
| artworkUrl60 | http://a2.mzstatic.com/us/r30/Music/75/d7/9e/mzi.tugmofjx.60x60-50.jpg |
| collectionCensoredName | Kind of Blue |
| collectionExplicitness | notExplicit |
| collectionId | 162322551 |
| collectionName | Kind of Blue |
| collectionPrice | 9.99 |
| collectionViewUrl | https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/blue-in-green/id162322551?i=162322872&uo=4 |
| country | USA |
| currency | USD |
| discCount | 1 |
| discNumber | 1 |
| kind | song |
| previewUrl | http://a456.phobos.apple.com/us/r1000/090/Music/ca/55/73/mzm.yslzuywm.aac.p.m4a |
| primaryGenreName | Jazz |
| radioStationUrl | https://itunes.apple.com/us/station/idra.162322872 |
| releaseDate | 1997-03-04T08:00:00Z |
| trackCensoredName | Blue In Green |
| trackCount | 6 |
| trackExplicitness | notExplicit |
| trackId | 162322872 |
| trackName | Blue In Green |
| trackNumber | 3 |
| trackPrice | 0.99 |
| trackTimeMillis | 337560 |
| trackViewUrl | https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/blue-in-green/id162322551?i=162322872&uo=4 |
| wrapperType | track |
+------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
...
License
Nashville is available under the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for more info.