Ruby code to get JSON data from MusicBrainz and post it to a local NoSQL / Search database e.g. CouchDB, ElasticSearch

musicbrainz.rb

#!/usr/bin/ruby
#Retrieve data from MusicBrainz in JSON format and upload it to server
require 'rubygems'
require 'json'
require 'open-uri'
require 'active_support'
require 'net/http'

$KCODE = "UTF8"

def search_and_post(artist, host, port, path)
  base_uri = 'http://search.test.musicbrainz.org/ws/2/recording/'
  json = open(base_uri + "?&offset=0&max=1000&fmt=json&query=artist:#{artist}").read
  pJson = ActiveSupport::JSON.decode(json)

  pJson['recording-list']['recording'].each do |r|
    req = Net::HTTP::Post.new(path)
    req.body = ActiveSupport::JSON.encode(r)
    req["content-type"] = "application/json"
    response = Net::HTTP.start(host, port){ |http|http.request(req) }
    puts "Response #{response.code} #{response.message}: #{response.body}"
  end
end

unless ARGV.length == 4
 puts "Usage: #{$0} [search term] [host] [port] [path]"
 exit
end
search_and_post(ARGV[0], ARGV[1], ARGV[2], ARGV[3])