I learned how to insert Headers into an Inoke-RestMethod request in order to pull music information from an online database. Afterwards, I can insert the received objects into MP3 ID3 tags using methods mentioned in my previous posts (including album covers). I recently started using Decibel for grabbing music information (even though indications are that they're going to a pay-only API). As of now, they have a free version and two paid versions which allow more information about each query. When you create a free account, you'll be requested to make an application. I called my application "PowerShell." The system generated an Application ID & Key. New to me was having to pass this Application ID, Application Key, and Date/Time via a header request when making my PowerShell queries. After many web searches and trying different script methods, I'm sharing my successful script:
#Replace the x's with your Applications information
#Using an artist like "Fine Young Cannibals" will search for artists
#that have any or all of those three words
$DAppID = "xxxxxxxx"
$DAppKey = "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
[string]$DTimeStamp = get-date -format "yyyyMMdd HH:mm:ss"
$Artist = "Metallica"
#Decibel documention
#I requested all albums that have Metallica in the artists name field
$query = invoke-restmethod http://api.decibel.net/v1/albums?artist=$Artist `
-headers @{"DecibelAppID"=$DAppID;"DecibelAppKey"=$DAppKey;"DecibelTimestamp"=$DTimeStamp;} `
-method get
$result = $query.AlbumQueryResult.ResultSet.album
# I filtered for only Metallica album names
foreach ($r in $result){$r.Name|where-object{$r.Artists -eq $Artist}}
