This library implements webservice bindings for the Musicbrainz NGS site, also known as /ws/2 and the Cover Art Archive.

For more information on the musicbrainz webservice see http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/XML_Web_Service.

# Import the module
import musicbrainzngs

# If you plan to submit data, authenticate
musicbrainzngs.auth("user", "password")

# Tell musicbrainz what your app is, and how to contact you
# (this step is required, as per the webservice access rules
# at http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/XML_Web_Service/Rate_Limiting )
musicbrainzngs.set_useragent("Example music app", "0.1", "http://example.com/music")

# If you are connecting to a different server
musicbrainzngs.set_hostname("beta.musicbrainz.org")

See the query.py file for more examples.

More documentation is available at Read the Docs.

If you want to contribute to this repository, please read the contribution guidelines first.

These bindings were written by Alastair Porter. Contributions have been made by:

• Adrian Sampson
• Corey Farwell
• Galen Hazelwood
• Greg Ward
• Ian McEwen
• Jérémie Detrey
• Johannes Dewender
• Michael Marineau
• Patrick Speiser
• Pavan Chander
• Paul Bailey
• Rui Gonçalves
• Ryan Helinski
• Sam Doshi
• Shadab Zafar
• Simon Chopin
• Thomas Vander Stichele
• Wieland Hoffmann

This library is released under the simplified BSD license except for the file musicbrainzngs/compat.py which is licensed under the ISC license. See COPYING for details.