API Specifics

Specific details on using the 7digital APIs

Catalog API Endpoint - Authentication

Hackathon specific parameters to access UMG catalog

• consumer_key = 7d4vr6cgb392

• consumer_secret = m4ntskavq56rddsa

• shopId = 2020

To browse the catalog, only the consumer key and shopId are required

• &oauth_consumer_key=7d4vr6cgb392 (Note, oauth_consumer_key is parameter name)

• &shopId=2020

http://api.7digital.com/1.2/artist/browseshopId=2020&oauth_consumer_key=7d4vr6cgb392&letter=ki

If you make a mistake authenticating an API call, then an HTTP 401 status code will be returned

• Plain text error message will also be returned indicating cause

• Access to resource denied = Invalid API Key passed on call OR Missing/Invalid shopId

• Resource not found = Invalid API Endpoint called

API Endpoint - Responses

API Responses default to XML - JSON is available by using “accept JSON” header

Curl -H “accept: application/json” ‘http://api.7digital.com/1.2/artist/browse?shopId=2020&oauth_consumer_key=7d4vr6cgb392&letter=ki’

API Call standard responses (Success)

<response status="ok" version="1.2">   <response_content /></response>

API Call error responses (Failure)

<response status="error" version="1.2"> <error code="1001">  <errorMessage>Missing artist ID</errorMessage> </error></response>

​A list of error codes and messages can be found on this page​

API Endpoint - Paging

Our catalog endpoints use paging to return large sets of results, A typical call might return these elements in the response

<searchResults><page>1</page><pageSize>10</pageSize><totalItems>460</totalItems><searchResult>

You need to use - page and pagesize parameters to access the entire result set

• &page={int} default=1

• &pagesize={int} default=10, max=50

Example call with paging parameters

http://api.7digital.com/1.2/artist/browse?letter=ki&shopId=2020&oauth_consumer_key=7d4vr6cgb392&page=2&pagesize=50

Accessing Artist & Album Artwork

The release and track endpoints return an URL to the album artwork

<image>http://artwork-cdn.7static.com/static/img/sleeveart/00/057/262/0005726299_50.jpg</image>

We have the following sizes available

• 33, 50, 100, 180, 182, 200, 350, 500 and 800 pixels

50 is returned as default, to adjust this, add imageSize parameter to your api call

​http://api.7digital.com/1.2/release/details?shopId=2020&oauth_consumer_key=7d4vr6cgb392&releaseId=5726299&usageTypes=adsupportedstreaming&imageSize=800​

Please Note - All the endpoints return an URL for an artist image - however the image is not always be present as we no longer support this feature