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I WANT MY MTV!

I WANT MY MTV!. I Want My MTV! Adobe Air meets MTV API meets LyricsFly.com meets Amazon. Douglas Knudsen http://www.cubicleman.com. Agenda. MTV API Introduction Amazon’s huge API LyricsFly.com API CODE!. MTV API Introduction. http://developer.mtvnservices.com/

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I WANT MY MTV!

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  1. I WANT MY MTV!

  2. I Want My MTV!Adobe Air meets MTV APImeets LyricsFly.commeets Amazon Douglas Knudsen http://www.cubicleman.com

  3. Agenda • MTV API Introduction • Amazon’s huge API • LyricsFly.com API • CODE!

  4. MTV API Introduction • http://developer.mtvnservices.com/ • Recently out of a private beta • RESTful based approach • Results are in XML format, either Atom or MRSS • See http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/ about MRSS • Now supports http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/ standard for use in paginating results • Currently free, no reg, no API key • Be cognizant of MTV’s terms of service

  5. General Info • Video Feeds and Entries • Parameters • Video Player • No FLV access • URL is to MTV SWF player which loads video • Flex: can use SWFLoader and Security.allowInsecureDomain() • Air: easy to use HTML control and embed • Results are limited to 100 items

  6. Video Methods • http://api.mtvnservices.com/1/video/search/?term=u2&start-index=1&max-results=10 • Use e4x and parse quickly and easily • See http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/langref/XML.html • See the code for MTVDataTranslator now • http://api.mtvnservices.com/1/video/hznHivqrbHHWNAXP/ will load a video XML directly

  7. Artist Methods • http://api.mtvnservices.com/1/artist/placebo/ • Returns a artist entry with video list link, related artist link, genre link, and images • Search artists with http://api.mtvnservices.com/1/artist/search/[parameters] • Artist browse for A, B, C, … Z UIs

  8. Genre Methods • Recent addition • http://api.mtvnservices.com/1/genre/rock/ the alias method returns links to videos and artists in the genre • Example http://api.mtvnservices.com/1/genre/rock/videos/ lists rock videos

  9. Amazon API • Extensive • AWS SOAP is dirty, has issues and the outstanding Flex Builder WSDL importer chokes on it. Namespace related • So I used Object as a resultFormat instead of e4x • Need to register and get a API Key its free • http://aws.amazon.com/resources/ • REST based is around too

  10. LyricsFly.com • Why? First on a Google search  • http://lyricsfly.com/api/ • http://lyricsfly.com/api/api.php?i=d3e9ea1183e2c5c25-temporary.API.access&a=u2&t=sunday%20bloody%20sunday • Result is XML based • Actual lyrics are [BR] seperated

  11. Code! • http://code.google.com/p/airvj/

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