# Qloo Developer Guide [**Qloo**](https://qloo.com) **is the cultural AI, and we produce deep data science for the largest verticals of culture and entertainment. As experts in people’s taste, we uniquely find connections across over a dozen categories and use that knowledge to generate high quality recommendations at scale. For this hackathon, we’re giving you access to a limited version of our enterprise API.**
**Challenge: Discover music by its relation to any combination of locations, books, restaurants, fashion, film, music or tV.**
### **Overview** **You, hackathoner, can use Qloo’s API to:** * **Search through ≈ 5.5 million entities spanning books, restaurants, fashion, film, music, travel destinations and TV.** * **Use any combination of entities to get recommendations in the category of your choice.** ### **Important Information** * **Each team will be given a token to access the API.** * **You need to add the following parameters to all API requests:** * **"Content-Type": "application/json"** * **"Authorization": \** ### **Quickstart** **Javascript (es6)**
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const fetch = require('node-fetch');
const token = '...';
const url = '';

const qlooApi = async (path, params) => {
const paramString = new URLSearchParams(params).toString();
const results = await fetch(`${url}/${path}?${paramString}`, {
method: "GET",
headers: {
"Content-Type": "application/json",
"Authorization": token,
},
});
return await results.json();
}

(async () => {
console.log(await qlooApi('/search', { query: 'beyonce' }));
console.log(await qlooApi('/recs', { sample: \['id', 'id'] }));
})()

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