Search an artist name in Music Brainz database.

mb_search_artist.js

var http = require("http")
var query = require('querystring');

var term = process.argv[2];
var DEBUG = false;

var options = {
  host: 'search.musicbrainz.org',
  path: '/ws/2/artist/?fmt=json&query=' + query.escape(term)
};

callback = function(response) {
    var data = '';
    response.on('data', function (chunk) {
        data += chunk;
    });

    response.on('end', function() {
        if (DEBUG) {
            console.log(data);
            console.log("\n\n\n");
        }
        var o = JSON.parse(data);
        o["artist-list"]["artist"].forEach(function(artist) {
            if (parseInt(artist.score) > 80) {
                console.log("Artist: " + artist.name);
                console.log("  MBID: " + artist.id);
                console.log(" Score: " + artist.score);
                console.log("\n");
            }
        });
    });

    response.on('error', function(e) {
        console.log('*** Error: ' + e.message);
    });
}

http.request(options, callback).end();