artist link fails, you need album link for get_artist

[matkoniecz]

from bandcamp_api import Bandcamp
bc = Bandcamp()
data = bc.get_artist(artist_url = "https://sabaton.bandcamp.com/album/the-unkillable-soldier")
data = bc.get_artist(artist_url = "https://sabaton.bandcamp.com/")

Second query fails.

  File "/home/mateusz/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/bandcamp_api/bandcamp_api.py", line 55, in get_artist
    return Artist(artist_url=artist_url)
  File "/home/mateusz/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/bandcamp_api/artist.py", line 74, in __init__
    raise AttributeError("Either the Artist URL given is either private, deleted or the link is malformed")
AttributeError: Either the Artist URL given is either private, deleted or the link is malformed

[matkoniecz]

Note that it is what

from bandcamp_api import Bandcamp
bc = Bandcamp()
results = bc.search_artist(search_term)
for entry in results:
    print(entry.artist_url)

gives us and there is no obvious way to get ling with album suffix

[RustyRin]

I've looked into this last night.
There is a script tag that is used to get artist info that only exists when viewing an album.

I have been (slowly) working on moving more of the code to use the api calls that the iOS app uses.

Currently, the band-aid fix is just to use some random album instead of the base artist url

[matkoniecz]

just to use some random album instead of the base artist url

The tricky part is how to obtain album of artist if you cannot fetch artist data

[RustyRin]

Just use the album link.
But with the api call uses numerical band ids, so in the future getartist will prob just be a fancy way to say grab the first search result.
Same goes with all of the get functions tbh

[matkoniecz]

Just use the album link.

Yes, but getting it is a bit tricky (I want to find which of some music set is available from Bandcamp, and currently I search by artist name). I do not have album data in this dataset.

[RustyRin]

okay, i fixed this. i even added support for /music urls