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<div class="grid--cell mb0 mt8">Closed <span title="2012-07-08 04:02:09Z" class="relativetime">7 years ago</span>.</div>
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I'm workin on a website where i show all list of hundred to thousand songs which i played recently. I need album cover pictures for songs! Is there any free Api for that? I should send HTTP request and get a responce [only picture]
"I'm writing code in AJAX"
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I've done something similar a few times recently.
You can use the free last.fm API http://www.last.fm/api
You will need an API key (which you get once registered) and that key must be sent in the request.
One of the methods available from the API is called track.getInfo:
http://www.last.fm/api/show/track.getInfo
Using this method, you can send through the artist and track name parameters (both required) like so:
http://ws.audioscrobbler.com/2.0/?
method=track.getInfo&
api_key=b___YOUR_API_KEY___&
artist=Cher&
track=Believe
The response from this request will include a series of images for that track. The following is the album node from the full request):
<album position="1">
<artist>Cher</artist>
<title>The Very Best of Cher</title>
<mbid>00d677bf-46f2-34a4-86ad-e922d8466943</mbid>
<url>
http://www.last.fm/music/Cher/The+Very+Best+of+Cher
</url>
<image size="small">
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/64s/41161483.png</image>
<image size="medium">
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/126/41161483.png</image>
<image size="large">
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/174s/41161483.png
</image>
<image size="extralarge">
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/300x300/41161483.png
</image>
</album>
You can then use your JavaScript AJAX function to filter to the image nodes returned in the response. As you can see, images come in different sizes so you can select which one you which to use.
You wont get ONLY the picture back from the request, but you can easily grab it from the response.
I hope that helps.