Developing on the MusicStrands Platform
Calling all developers! You can now build applications that leverage the power of MusicStrands. The OpenStrands 1.0 web services platform is a set of web services for outside developers interested in adding MusicStrands functionality to their non-commercial applications.
OpenStrands services allow you to programmatically perform many of the same functions available to you through the MusicStrands website using a browser. Use of OpenStrands is free to registered MusicStrands users, allowing you to write programs that use MusicStrands music recommendation and discovery technology in new and different ways. The platform currently includes account, catalog, recommendation, playlist, tagging, and community services. There is a limit of 5,000 queries per day.
To learn more, register for an OpenStrands subscriber ID and download the OpenStrands Software Development Kit (SDK):
http://www.musicstrands.com/openstrands/overview.vm
To help you get started quickly, examples are provided in Java, C#, and Python. You can call OpenStrands services from any language capable of issuing an HTTPS request and parsing the XML response.
