Cultural APIs have further diminished the boundaries between the world of technology and entertainment and education. Different types of entertainment have a significant portion of today’s humans. We all enjoy reading books, watching movies, or listening to the music we love. These cultural hobbies are a good time for us to get away from the concern of the world and immerse ourselves in the world that a talented writer or artist has created.
The taste of each of the 5 people is different about the type of entertainment; But all people have a number of books, movies or music. Some genre follow certain genres or enjoy seeing the works of a particular writer. For me many times to enjoy a film and look for other works by the author and director of the film; Or I want to read the views of others about it to understand the aspects of the story that was meaningless to me.
Cultural APIs and Cultural Development
It is here that cultural APIs come to our aid. Cultural APIs provide us with information about cultural products from various sources. This information can include news about them, reviews, posters and cover, stakeholders and manufacturers, and so on.
Famous sites and media like the New York Times offer their own APIs that collect information about each product from their database. Although in many cases these APIs meet our needs, there are some other APIs that provide us with more complete information by collecting information from different databases.
If we have a sales and presentation of cultural products, reviews, or the publishing and distribution platform of these products, we would no doubt like our customers and audiences can find all the information they need on our site so that they do not have to search by searching On other sites, waste a lot of time. This way, customer concentration on the site will not be eliminated and the likelihood of product purchasing from our site increases.
In general, film and cinema APIs are the most popular APIs in the field of cultural products. Large sites like Rotten Tomatoes have their own development plan, designed to extract information from their database. To get the API of these sites you need to fill out the registration form and after reviewing your site, the API will be available. Some other sites, such as the IMDB, have no official APIs, but other developers have designed APIs for free site data.
Here are some of the best APIs in different cultural fields that have been used in many apps to date. You can also
APIs in the field of film and cinema
IMDB – Internet Movie Database
It shows video information using its ID on the IMDB site or its name search.
Movie Database
This API is known as an IMDB alternative, which collects information such as film, genre, actors, releases, and so on, collecting films and serials from a variety of sources and bringing results in JSON or XML format.
Unogsng
This API provides information about the videos on the Netflix platform. You can search videos based on Netflix filters (such as countries where a movie is available).
Hulu
How this API works is similar to Unogsng, except that it offers Hulu service data.
TVMAZE
This API is specially made for television series and collects all the data from these series from different sites.
Rotten Tomatoes
The site has released its official API that shows the information of the film, posters, critics of ordinary viewers and professional cashiers and the privileges of each.
APIs in the field of book and publications
New York Times API
The New York Times is one of the world’s most prestigious media outlets publishing great writers. With this API you can see information about books, author, year of publication, summary, reviews, top books each year published in this media, best -selling books, and more.
Google Books API
The Google repository is full of books in different languages and from all over the world. Google API allows you to get information about books, writers and publishers easily.
Goodreads API
Goodreads is one of the most popular platforms available among book enthusiasts. So far, more than ten million reviews have been published for more than 6,000 books on this site. The API of this platform allows you to search for book information, reviews and reviews, or even other expert reviews.
APIs in the field of gaming and entertainment
RAWG Video Games Database
Provided for free API, it provides you with a wide range of data by accessing the largest game information database. These data can include public information such as title, platform, manufacturer, publisher, etc., or even interviews about a game, reviews, scores, and so on.
Entertainment Data Hub
Along with movies and serials, this API provides the applicant’s computer games data. In addition, it offers various filters such as live broadcast availability, rank, year of publication, and more. This feature helps you make group search (eg films released in Year 2).
APIs in the field of music and podcasts
Shazam API
The Shazam service at the beginning of the presentation made a lot of noise. The service allowed users to obtain information about it through the app or site, using the sound of part of a song. Now the API of this service allows you to bring this feature to your platform and service.
TheAudioDB API
This platform is one of the largest music libraries in the world that is increasing the number of songs in the world because of the support of those interested. With the API of this platform, you can easily search for songs, singers, albums and more.
Spotify API
In the world, there are fewer people who are not familiar with this popular music streaming platform. The API of this platform allows you to search for songs, podcasts and playlists created by users.
4.3 Radio Stations API
The radio may not be as popular as the audience, but many people around the world are still looking for good radio stations to fill their time. This API allows you to access the information of the best radio stations around the world. You can search the station using name, genre or even logo. In addition, you can access the list of the best songs played at these stations that are updated daily, weekly, monthly and annually.
Listennotes API
The platform, with nearly two million podcasts and more than 2 million episodes, is the largest podcast database. With this API, you can search for podcasts published on more than two thousand platforms, such as Google and iTunes based on name, genre, episode name, area, and so on.
Cultural APIs, such as medical and health APIs, have experienced good growth during the outbreak of Corona, where people spend more time at home. Various platforms provide their services using the services provided by these APIs, and the number of platforms is increasing every day. By changing people’s tastes and transferring entertainment to digital space, the need for these APIs is felt more and more.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can we use these APIs to practice?
Many newcomers need to use free APIs for training. Many of these APIs we introduced in the article have such a capability.