Keep seeing server errors when hitting http://vgmdb.info/album/67253. It seems to usually work the first time, then any successive call will yield a 500. If I wait for a few minutes it seems to stabilize again and then will succeed.

I am getting 500 errors on a bunch of albums.

Not sure if it's just coincidence or not, but all of them are 'Vinyl' albums.

Some of the error albums:

• http://vgmdb.info/album/76367 - 2 Vinyl - https://vgmdb.net/album/76367
• http://vgmdb.info/album/72682 - 2 Vinyl - https://vgmdb.net/album/72682
• http://vgmdb.info/album/62524 - 2 Vinyl - http://vgmdb.net/album/62524
• http://vgmdb.info/album/77167 - 2 Vinyl - http://vgmdb.net/album/77167
• http://vgmdb.info/album/72776 - 2 Vinyl - http://vgmdb.net/album/72776
• http://vgmdb.info/album/76197 - 2 Vinyl - http://vgmdb.net/album/76197
• http://vgmdb.info/album/82450 - 2 Vinyl - http://vgmdb.net/album/82450
• http://vgmdb.info/album/52309 - 1 Vinyl - http://vgmdb.net/album/52309
• http://vgmdb.info/album/79163 - 1 Vinyl - http://vgmdb.net/album/79163
• http://vgmdb.info/album/102096 - 3 Vinyl - http://vgmdb.net/album/102096
• http://vgmdb.info/album/102093 - 3 Vinyl - http://vgmdb.net/album/102093

I tried going through other Vinyl albums and did find a '1 Vinyl' album that was working (http://vgmdb.info/album/89792) so not all Vinyls are returning 500 errors.

I'm using this project, and after making some petitions, it says something like:

ResponseError: OOM command not allowed when used memory > 'maxmemory'.

How can I flush the data, in order to continue performing petitions?

http://vgmdb.net/artist/77
Buried inside the source code is the twitter handle, but the parsing code hasn't caught up to the new location.

Is it possible to add in Publish Format?
here: http://vgmdb.info/album/79

also sometimes there is Label and Publisher, but appears only as Publisher, is it possible to separate this?

thank you for your great work.

https://vgmdb.info/album/82849

I wonder why.

Just a question, a lot of products have websites ( official, reference (...?) ), do you mind to add them in the schema? 👍

Example:
product.type=game http://vgmdb.net/product/1019
product.type=video http://vgmdb.net/product/1022

Not all product.types have websites

Example: http://vgmdb.info/artist/15942?format=json

Members is duplicated in Artist .Members & Artist .info.members ( same as Artist.aliases, Artist.Units & Artist.Birthdate ) Do you parse BirthLocation?
"info": {
......
"Members": [
{
"names": {
"en": "RYOTA"
}
},
......
},
"link": "artist/15942",
"members": [
{
"names": {
"en": "RYOTA"
}
},
......
{
"names": {
"en": "U"
}
},
......
],

Feature Request "Artist.isPerson/isBand[Group/Unit]"

Next to the Artist.name is a "(Unit)" in the html. This "field?" ( http://vgmdb.net/artist/6310?format=json ) means this artist is a group/band/unit, am I right? It is possible that the artist could have a boolean field for this?

Hi @hufman,

I'd like to contribute to the API by adding some additional parsers and fixing some stuff, as I need those changes for my own project. I am trying to get the docker images of my code build using docker-build.sh script, but it doesn't succeed as the requirements image isn't found correctly. Can you update the development instructions to include docker?

Thank you!

Any link here gives an error:

I'm using json data of albums from the API. As far as I can tell, it doesn't include the barcode, not sure why. I would appreciate if it were to be added!

currently it's missing
e.g.
https://vgmdb.info/event/200
https://vgmdb.net/event/200

missing:

{
...
    "name_jp": "博麗神社例大祭14",
...
}

The stores field only includes the VGMDB marketplace entry and does not include other stores (e.g. Spotify, Amazon, etc.)

For example, the Octopath Traveler soundtrack has 7 stores but the Album API response only returns the marketplace.

    "stores": [
        {
            "link": "/db/collection.php?do=show&albumid=77081",
            "name": "1 for sale "
        }
    ],

I believe this is because the _parse_section_stores method sets recursive to false, so the links further down the tree are not identified.

Love the project, keep up the great work!

Clarification:

if alias == 1
--> alias.splitAfterEveryLetter

if alias > 1
--> perfekt split

Example:
(Single value) http://vgmdb.info/artist/4?format=json
(Multi value) http://vgmdb.info/artist/5?format=json

Example: http://vgmdb.info/artist/15942?format=json

"info": {
"Album Votes": "9 votes for 3 albums",
"Credited works": [
"9 albums in database",
"9 composer credits",
"9 arranger credits",
"9 performer credits",
"0 lyricist credits"
],
"Formed": "2006",
"Former Members": [
"2RASH",
"ko-sk",
"TAKUMi",
"TSUYOSHi"
],
"Members": [
"RYOTA",
"U",
{
"link": "artist/15569",
"names": {
"en": "SHiNNOSUKE"
}
}
]

I think

"members": [
    {
        "names": {
            "en": "2RASH"
        }
    }

would be a little bit cleaner? :)

Something is wrong.

https://vgmdb.info/event/28

Example: http://vgmdb.net/album/35753

You only parse 1 event :) ( http://vgmdb.info/album/35753?format=json )

http://vgmdb.net/album/49938

http://vgmdb.info/album/49938?format=json

The product endpoint doesn't show any album

https://vgmdb.info/product/23?format=json

{ "albums": [], "description": "", "link": "product/23", "meta": { "added_date": "2009-03-22T21:27", "edited_date": "2015-09-08T09:30", "fetched_date": "2020-10-20T19:42", "ttl": 86400, "visitors": 20503 }, "name": "Final Fantasy", "name_real": "ファイナルファンタジー", "picture_full": "https://vgmdb.net/", "picture_small": "https://vgmdb.net/db/img/collapse_close.png", "type": "Franchise", "vgmdb_link": "https://vgmdb.net/product/23?perpage=99999", "websites": {} }

Problem encountered with Tetris: The Grand Master and Else Heart.Break() despite launching the query from the album page directly.

Some of the info pages have Bandcamp links, perhaps they could be exposed in the data

Example: http://vgmdb.info/album/30552?format=json ( http://vgmdb.net/album/30552 )

"related": [
{
"catalog": "Bouken De-show De-show? / Aya Hirano",
"link": "album/30550",
"names": {
"en": "Bouken De-show De-show? / Aya Hirano",
"ja": "冒険でしょでしょ？ / 平野綾",
"ja-latn": "Bouken Desho Desho? / Aya Hirano"
},
"type": "anime"
},

Right now I can only search by one keyword, such as searching for albums, artists, and organizations individually.
When the album name is more common, the number of search results can be very large.
I wish to add an advanced search function to post two or three search keys at the same time (just like https://vgmdb.net/search )

Hi,
I some pages are throwing http 500 errors. This doesn't seem to be a side wide issue but related to specific pages e.g.
https://vgmdb.info/album/107393
https://vgmdb.info/album/107565
https://vgmdb.info/album/107562

Right now the unit tests check against saved snapshots of specific vgmdb.net pages. It should be possible to automatically update those snapshots and run the unit tests against them, to make sure that they still handle the current vgmdb.net html.
Additionally, it should crawl around vgmdb.net and look for any parse errors and crashes automatically.

just reporting vgmdb.info is down. error 502 bad gateway.

Example: http://vgmdb.info/search/products?q=haruhi&format=json

"products": [
{
"aliases": [
"Haruhi Suzumiya涼宮ハルヒHaruhi Suzumiya"
],
"link": "product/1364",
"names": {}
},
{
"aliases": [
"Suzumiya Haruhi no Chokuretsu涼宮ハルヒの直列Suzumiya Haruhi no Chokuretsu"
],
"link": "product/2739",
"names": {}
},

Do you think it would be possible to filter/remove the placeholder image or can you login with the craller to remove such "problem"?

http://vgmdb.net/album/50766
http://vgmdb.info/album/50766?format=json

Hi,
it seems that in some cases, tracklist information is not updated for existing albums, or at least with a delay of several days, e.g.

• https://vgmdb.info/album/101897?format=json
• https://vgmdb.info/album/99691?format=json
• https://vgmdb.info/album/100315?format=json

In all of the examples above, the disc section only contains japanese names and is missing tracklists in other languages from its respective vgmdb.net counterpart.

It's almost impossible to search anything anymore through the API. The reason might possibly be that VGMdb has switched over to auto-redirecting to HTTPS. Some queries that contain two or more words do still work for some reason. Example: http://vgmdb.info/search/bright burning shout

Another problem I've found is when going through the recent/albums JSON: the contents of the link object changed from the usual album/<id> to https://vgmdb.net/album/<id>. I suppose this might be what conflicts the querying as well in the underlying code.

Hope this could be fixed soon. Thanks in advance.

so the people don't appear in Json.

For Album ID-4 - "CHRONO CROSS ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK":

http://vgmdb.info/album/4 - On the album page and the /sellers endpoint, it returns product pages for Discogs, CDJapan and Spotify and a search on Amazon.

http://vgmdb.info/album/4?format=json - But when looking at the JSON, the stores data returns:
"stores": [
{
"link": "/db/collection.php?do=show&albumid=4",
"name": "5 for sale "
}
]

It looks like its returning the # of albums up for sale in the Marketplace on vgmdb.net's album page. Shouldn't the store data return links/names for Discogds, CDJapan and Spotify?

But on https://vgmdb.net/album/4

• it has it listed for Amazon.co.jp, Amazon.com, Play-Asia (OOP)
• these are different the ones being displayed on the page (Discogs, CDJapan and Spotify)

For Album ID-270 - '"Bomberman Hero" Original Soundtrack':

http://vgmdb.info/album/270 - On the album page and the /sellers endpoint, it returns searches on Discogs, Amazon, CDJapan and Spotify.

http://vgmdb.info/album/270?format=json - But when looking at the JSON, the stores data returns:
"stores": [
{
"link": "/db/collection.php?do=show&albumid=270",
"name": "1 for sale "
}
]

On https://vgmdb.net/album/4 - it has it listed for Amazon.co.jp, Amazon.com, Play-Asia (OOP)

For Album ID-76054 - "Divinity: Original Sin II Original Soundtrack":

http://vgmdb.info/album/76054/ - On the album page and the /sellers endpoint, it returns searches on Discogs, Amazon, CDJapan and Spotify and a product page for Apple Music.

http://vgmdb.info/album/76054?format=json - But when looking at the JSON, the stores data returns:
"stores": [
{
"link": "http://itunes.apple.com/album/divinity-original-sin-2-original-soundtrack/1357654190",
"name": "iTunes"
},
{
"link": "http://play.google.com/store/music/album/Borislav_Slavov_Divinity_Original_Sin_2_Original_S?id=B7v2nxxwqmweffhsyuuhsyuexki",
"name": "Google Play"
},
{
"link": "http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B07BC4YR7S/",
"name": "Amazon"
}
]

For this last album, the stores being returned are the ones listed at https://vgmdb.net/album/76054 under the "Available at" section.

• this is different from the one being shown on the album page (only a product page for Apple Music and searches for others)

Overall:

• Marketplace results has a higher priority than the stores listed on vgmdb.net under "Available at" (which is being returned under stores in JSON)
• If there are no marketplace results, it returns the stores listed on vgmdb.net under "Available at"
• There is an undocumented way of retrieving stores that has higher priority than the marketplace results and the stores listed on vgmdb.net under "Available at" (as seen on the Chrono Cross page - album 4 and the Divinity page - album 76054)

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how to build it?
macOS

https://vgmdb.info/artist/36 that gives me error 500

I've been using vgmdb.info/album calls for a while now. A few days ago, I started getting "Error 500 Internal Server Error" systematically.

This happens with every call (except with the example album id 79, which I guess is cached or processed differently)

Example: http://vgmdb.info/album/84543

Reprint is always FALSE, even there's a Child albums

As opposed to the current local Jenkins build, the unit tests and Docker image build should be implemented with Github Actions.

Hello,
This is more as a feature request rather than a bug.
Would it be an option to receive Json result in non pretty printer format?
Having line breaks in the result creates some issue in Mp3Tag, not because Mp3Tag cannot parse Json, but because we try to add some missing information in the json stream (in pure string manipulation) and there Mp3Tag has an issue removing line breaks.
The only option it works is to predict the exact number of line breaks in Mp3Tag, which is impossible of course.
Thanks a lot.

curl -v -H User-Agent: http://vgmdb.info/album/79?format=json

This album:

the jon:

Is it possible to add in Albums the Organizations, label per example?
here: http://vgmdb.info/album/79

The people are blank, i think they change stuff

I think they change the html and the names:

I am currently getting 500 Internal Server Errors on different endpoints, e.g.
http://vgmdb.info/search/albums/SVWC-7965?format=json
http://vgmdb.info/album/36309?format=json

It happens with and without the json query parameter.

http://vgmdb.info/artist/174 consistently returns a 500 for any output format.

All other artists I've tried are working fine.

Sometimes variations return an array of strings of just a simple string. It is possible to add consistent to the variations?

1 Variation:

"Variations": "白河ことり"

http://vgmdb.info/artist/640?format=json

n Variations:

"Variations": [
"KUKEIHAKURABU",
"Konami",
"Club Kukeiha"
]

http://vgmdb.info/artist/161?format=json

Something is wrong in the json validation for an album:

@hufman I don't now much about Json, i just ask if it is possible the Length to be separate in tracks, as it is joined in names?

Need to make a Json-Schema document to describe the api schema.