This powerful RESTful API allows you to fetch any data related to the music on jamendo. It is read-only. It is currently the most used Jamendo API. It is also accessible from Ajax and XML-RPC.
Things you can query with this API : albums, artists, tracks, users, tags, playlists, reviews, ...
| Parameter | Description | Values |
| itemUnit/parametersUnit | target unit/selection unit | album, artist, track, tag, user ; secondary : playlist, review, news |
| loadtype | list ; older (still use) : id, name ; older (unused) : recom, tag | |
| targetName | target type | id, data, name, title, page (url), p2p (tracker), audio (stream url) ; secondary : none, desc{1,2,3} ({full,common,min} description), archivesrestricted, artworkurl (cover) |
| formatName | target format | plain, rss2 (rss 2.0), {pretty,}json, podcast, play, xspf, ram, smil, pls, m3u, xmlrpc, ahah, redirect, phpserialized |
| param | tarjet and/or selection unit parameters | look at Built your URLs section |
Only list loadertype will be maintained in futures versions of this API. It allows you to get everthing you want. It's advised to use only this since it limits misunderstanding of API by comparaison to other loadertypes.
First simple examples :
| Both's Albums | http://www.jamendo.com/get/album/list/artist/title/plain/?names=both |
| Both's Albums | http://www.jamendo.com/get/album/list/artist/page/plain/?names=both |
| album with albumid=116 | http://www.jamendo.com/get/album/list/album/title/plain/?ids=116 |
| Tags of ablumid=116 | http://www.jamendo.com/get/tag/list/album/name/plain/?ids=116 |
| 50 Albums ids | http://www.jamendo.com/get/album/list/album/id/plain/?n=50&o=id_asc |
| latest album's RSS feed that you can use commercially | http://www.jamendo.com/get/album/list/album/page/rss2/?o=release_date_desc&cani=c |
Examples of id / name / dispname :
Currently you can't use Dispname in your URLs. You can try to build the name by changing special caracters as in the example above.
You can use some optional secondary params to get what you want :
| Parameter | Adviced to be used with | Can be used with |
| identifier | list loadertype | |
| order | optional | all |
| limit querries | optional | |
| unit information | target unit | all (may not add any information depending of selection unit) |
| User id | optional | user, playlist, review unit |
| Artwork | album, track selection unit & artworkurl target unit | N/A |
| Stream encoding | audio target unit | N/A |
| P2P | album unit & p2p target unit | tracker parameter & others target unit |
| SubSettings | optional | |
| Others | optional |
Here are the values you can use with these parameters :
| Parameter | code | value | description |
| identifier | ids, names | value | Numerical, name is an unique string with no special characters ([0-9a-z.-]) |
| order | o | rating_desc | global popularity, default |
| user_rating_desc | for the logged user, best reviews | ||
| rating_week_desc | |||
| release_date_desc | |||
| date_desc | |||
| rating_week_desc | |||
| track_no_asc | |||
| random | |||
| id | |||
| alpha | Alphabetic | ||
| date | |||
| nshuffle | integer | number of items to shuffle on ((page number) shuffled out of (shuffle on)) | |
| pn | integer | The page number ( = items no. ((pn-1)*n) to (pn*n) ) | |
| limit querries | n | integer | number of item to get back |
| nids | integer | Exclude id | |
| id_from, id_to | integer | ||
| datef_days, datet_days, datef_epoch, datet_epoch | string | Maximum/Minimum days old, Date, lower/upper bound | |
| tag | string | List of tags | |
| program, programnot | integer | ID of the program the items must/musn't be registered to (13 : artist_revenueshare) | |
| shownotmod | 1, 2, other (default) | all albums, albums.`mod`=0, albums.`mod`=1 | |
| showhidden | 1, 2, other (default) | all albums, albums.status<>'V', albums.status='V' | |
| Album info | ali | min (default) | id |
| info_min | add to previous name, artist_id, archive_set | ||
| info_common | add to previous lengths, release_date, public_date, class, com_level, buyurl, filename, imagenum, status, mod, license_id, license_music_multiple, license_artwork_id, review_num, review_note, review_num_week, review_note_week, public_date_f, release_date_f, length_total | ||
| full | add to previous genre_str, genre_str_lang, desc_str, desc_str_lang, referrer_count, playlisted_count, lowfi_count, favourited_count, tracker_seeds_num, tracker_clients_num, tracker_finished_num, upload_date, validation_date, relance_date, id3genre, validation_url, root_audio, root_images, root_torrents, images{}, desc_html, archives{}, certif{} | ||
| desc | description | ||
| images | Don't work | ||
| archives | link to download | ||
| tracker | status of tracker (use with aenc) | ||
| genre | tags | ||
| Artist info | ari | min (default) | id |
| info_min | add to previous name, dispname | ||
| info_common | add to previous homepage, date_start, date_join, date_end, image | ||
| full | add to previous genre_str, genre_str_lang, desc_str, desc_str_lang, creator_user_id, forum_id, pays, departement, ville, desc_html, geo_countryname, geo_str1, relationjam{} | ||
| desc | add desc_str, desc_str_lang, desc_html | ||
| geo | add pays, departement, ville, id, geo_countryname, geo_str1 | ||
| News info (user selection unit required) | nwi | min (default) | id |
| info_min | add to previous user_id, type, join_id1, join_id2, join_id3, join_id4, link | ||
| info_common,full | add to previous title, date_added, type_origin, viewed, date_viewed, mailed, date_mailed | ||
| Playlist info | pli | any (default) | name, id, public, user_id, albumcount |
| Review info | rri | min (default) | id |
| info_min | add to previous title, album_id, user_id, note1, agree_cnt, pubdate, pubdate_f, review_link | ||
| info_common | add to previous lang, reply_topic_id, reply_topic_lang, blog_id, blog_link, blog_exclusive, reply_link, num_replies | ||
| full | add to previous review_text, date | ||
| User info | uri | min (default) | id |
| info_min,info_common | add to previous name, profile_link | ||
| full | add to previous avatar, pays, departement, has_transperm, inscr_date, avatarurl, classes{}, classes_html | ||
| avatar | add avatar, avatarurl | ||
| Tag info | tgi | min (default) | id |
| info_common,full | add to previous name | ||
| Track info | tri | min (default) | id |
| info_min | add to previous album_id, name, track_no | ||
| info_common | add to previous lengths, filename, com_level, parental_level, license_id | ||
| full | add to previous lyrics_text, lyrics_exists, lyrics_lang, lyrics_mod_date, id3genre, length | ||
| User id | uid | integer | Select info related to an user |
| Stream encoding | aue (audio enc) | ogg1, ogg2, mp31 | lowfi OGG (q-1), lowfi OGG q4, lowfi MP3 (96kbits) (default for streaming / player) |
| P2P | p2pnet | torrent (default), ed2k | use with target p2p |
| aenc,are (archive enc : tracker | ogg3, mp32 | hifi OGG q7, hifi MP3 (200kbits+) | |
| Artwork | artwork_size | integer | 70,100,130,200,300,400, etc (mail us for get a custon one) |
| artwork_id | integer | ||
| SubSettings | subset | user_notign, user_notlater, user_star | |
| Others | json_iddict | 1 | change Json format from [{"id":1234}] to {"1234":{"id":1234}} (example of result) |
| displangs | $rl |
| Description | Url example |
| 5 latest ablums released (minimal information) | http://www.jamendo.com/get/album/list/album/data/json/?n=5&o=release_date_desc&ali=info_min |
| All album info and common artist info of the first album released | http://www.jamendo.com/get/album/list/album/data/json/?n=1&o=release_date_asc&ali=full&ari=info_common |
| Ids of album by "both" artist | http://www.jamendo.com/get/album/list/artist/data/json/?names=both |
| Tags of album which id is 33 | http://www.jamendo.com/get/tag/list/album/data/json/?ids=33&tgi=info_common |
| Complete user info | http://www.jamendo.com/get/user/list/user/data/json/?names=sylvinus&uri=full |
These Loadertypes are still used on Jamendo portal and JamendoApps. They are a bit shorter to write (but won't be maintained).
| Description | Url example |
| Get unit from name of selection unit | name loadertype |
| album id from artist (name) | http://www.jamendo.com/get/album/name/artist/id/json/both/?n=all |
| Just remplace name by list and add ?names= before artist | http://www.jamendo.com/get/album/list/artist/id/json?names=both&n=all |
| Get unit from id of selection unit | id loadertype |
| user name (from his id) | http://www.jamendo.com/fr/get/user/id/user/name/plain/2 |
| Just remplace id by list and add ?ids= before id | http://www.jamendo.com/fr/get/user/list/user/name/plain?ids=2 |