mtv-music

A Ruby wrapper for the MTV Music API. See developer.mtvnservices.com/ for more information about the API.

Example Usage

Artists:

require 'mtv-music'
include MTV::Music

artist = Artist.new("Radiohead")

puts artist.name
puts artist.website

puts '*' * 40
puts

puts 'Videos'
artist.videos.each do |video|
  puts "\t- %s" % video.title
end

Videos:

require 'mtv-music'
include MTV::Music

video = Video.new("hznHivqrbHHZBZNXB") # Radiohead's "There There"

puts video.title
puts video.artist.name
puts video.released_on

# The MTV Music API makes it easy to embed videos into any webpage
puts video.embed_code
# <embed src="http://media.mtvnservices.com/mgid:uma:video:api.mtvnservices.com:202930" 
#        width="448" height="366" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" 
#        allowFullScreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" flashvars="autoPlay=false" />

REQUIREMENTS:

mtv-music has the following gem dependencies:

  • Hpricot >= 0.6

  • ActiveSupport >= 2.1.0

  • FlexMock >= 0.8.2

LICENSE:

(The MIT License)

Copyright © 2008 Mattt Thompson

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the ‘Software’), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ‘AS IS’, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.