lookup_entities_by_id: Lookup musicbrainz entities by id

In dmi3kno/musicbrainz: Bindings for the 'musicbrainz' Database API

Lookup musicbrainz entities by id

Description

Helper functions for looking up details about musicbrainz database entities given mbid. Optional parameter 'includes' allows retrieving related information. Lookup functions are not vectorized

Usage

lookup_area_by_id(mbid, includes = NULL)

lookup_artist_by_id(mbid, includes = NULL)

lookup_event_by_id(mbid, includes = NULL)

lookup_instrument_by_id(mbid, includes = NULL)

lookup_label_by_id(mbid, includes = NULL)

lookup_place_by_id(mbid, includes = NULL)

lookup_recording_by_id(mbid, includes = NULL)

lookup_release_group_by_id(mbid, includes = NULL)

lookup_release_by_id(mbid, includes = NULL)

lookup_series_by_id(mbid, includes = NULL)

lookup_work_by_id(mbid, includes = NULL)

Arguments

mbid	musicbrainz database id
includes	character vector of names of related entities to include. See information about avaialable includes in each of the lookup functions.

Value

Tibble containing details of the requested entity

Functions

• lookup_area_by_id(): lookup area by mbid. Available includes: tags

• lookup_artist_by_id(): lookup artist by mbid. Available includes: recordings, releases, release-groups, works and tags.

• lookup_event_by_id(): lookup event by mbid. Available includes: tags.

• lookup_instrument_by_id(): lookup instrument by mbid. Available includes: tags.

• lookup_label_by_id(): lookup label by mbid. Available includes: releases and tags.

• lookup_place_by_id(): lookup artist by mbid. Available includes: tags.

• lookup_recording_by_id(): lookup recording by mbid. Available includes: artists, releases and tags

• lookup_release_group_by_id(): lookup release group by mbid. Available includes: artists, releases and tags

• lookup_release_by_id(): lookup release by mbid. Available includes: artists, labels, recordings, release-groups, and tags

• lookup_series_by_id(): lookup series by mbid. Available includes: tags

• lookup_work_by_id(): lookup work by mbid. Available includes: tags

Examples

# find mbid for Trondheim and lookup area information
trondheim_mbid <- search_areas("Trondheim",1)$mbid
lookup_area_by_id(trondheim_mbid)

# Lookup "The Wall" release
the_wall_mbid <- search_releases("The Wall AND artist:Pink Floyd",1)$mbid
lookup_release_by_id(the_wall_mbid)

# Lookup "David Sanborn" artist
sanborn_id <- search_artists("David+Sanborn",1)$mbid
lookup_artist_by_id(sanborn_id, includes=c("recordings"))

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