album-methods: Album Methods

album-methodsR Documentation

Album Methods

Description

The methods are used to retrieve information about albums:

  • raw_album_get_info() - Search for an album by name.

  • raw_album_search() - Retrieve information about an album exactly by artist and album name or MBID. If both are provided the Artist and Album name are used by default.

Usage

raw_album_search(album, .start_page = 1, .n_pages = NULL)

raw_album_get_info(
  artist = NULL,
  album = NULL,
  mbid = NULL,
  autocorrect = TRUE,
  username = NULL,
  lang = NULL
)

Arguments

album

Album name as a string.

.start_page

The page to start pulling from, by default starts from the 1st page

.n_pages

The total number of pages to pull. If no value is provided, all pages are retrieved.

artist

Artist name as a string.

mbid

(Optional) MusicBrainz ID for the album as a string. Can be provided instead of artist and album names

autocorrect

(Optional) Whether to correct the artist/album/track name names provided in the response. Defaults to TRUE if not provided.

username

(Optional) Username as a string. If provided, the user playcount of the album is included in the response.

lang

(Optional) The biography language.

Value

  • raw_album_search() returns a list of lastfm objects

  • raw_album_get_info() returns a single lastfm object

Language Setting

Biographies for albums and artists are returned in English by default. To get the biography in other languages, provide a ISO 639-1 country code via the lang argument of supporting functions.

Name Autocorrection

Endpoints that take artist/track/album names try to auto-correct misspelled names in the search query. This behaviour can be overriden by calling the function with argument autocorrect set to FALSE.


bkkkk/lastfmr documentation built on Sept. 4, 2022, 7:03 a.m.