musiXmatch API wrapper in R

musixmatch is a large online catalog of music lyrics, among other song/artist data.
This project is still very, very much under development.

Usage

library(musixmatch)
set_apikey(YOUR_APIKEY)

Get Artist IDs (artist.search)

# Return data.frame of most useful fields to identify artist
search_artist('slayer')

# Return list of full XML result in a list
search_artist(q_artist = 'slayer',simplify=FALSE)

Get album discography of artist (artist.albums.get)

# Return full list of result for album.  Content simplification not functional yet.
get_album(14250417)

Get all tracks from an album (album.tracks.get)

# Return data.frame of most useful fields related to tracks on an album
get_track(15445219)

Get Lyrics from a song (track.lyrics.get)

# Returns lyrics of a song. Content simplification still under development.
get_track_lyrics(15445219)