Authored by Garrett Wilkin (http://about.me/garrettwilkin)
It uses both the iTunes API for retrieving media information and the LinkShare API for generating affiliate links to the iTunes store. See an example in simple-node.js.
Currently, the iTunes API is implemented and tested for searching for album information. A callback function is required in order to use this package. The basic steps to using it are:
- Decide that you want to retrieve some media meta data (only albums supported currently)
- Write a callback function to process this meta data (display it, store it in a database etc.)
- Initialize an instance of iTunes.
- Call lookupAlbum supplying the media information (e.g. album name, artist name) and the callback function that will process the result.
A very basic use:
var itunesClient = new iTunes();
itunesClient.lookupAlbum({artist: 'Smashing Pumpkins', album: 'Siamese Dream'}, function(error, album) {
<callback function definition>
}
);
See demo files for a practical examples of the libraries in action.