poeti8 / findrap.xyz

Discover dope hip-hop music.

findrap.xyz helps you discover dope hip-hop music based on decades, sub-genres or similar artists. Only artists that had at least one great album are included in the database.

If you think an artist is missing or the database is incomplete you can contribute or open an issue.

API

You can get FindRap dope albums and songs by requesting data via below URLs.

All Artists

http://findrap.xyz/api/artist/all

Specific Artist

ARTIST_NAME can be anything from all artists lists (above).

Queries: similar=true to get similar artists and limit=10 to limit response to a certain number of data.

http://findrap.xyz/api/artist/ARTIST_NAME

All Tags

http://findrap.xyz/api/tag/all

Specific Tag

TAG_NAME can be anything from all tags lists (above).

Queries: random=true to get random tags and limit=10 to limit response to a certain number of data.

http://findrap.xyz/api/tag/TAG_NAME

Contribute

Open artists.json or best-new.json and add the new data. The whole data is an array of artists which each one has:

artist artist's name

songs an array of objects for each dope song.

albums an array of objects for each dope album.

tags an array of tags. only among existing tags in the API.

related an array of similar artists. only among existing artists in the API.

Note that the count of dope songs should be one more than dope albums count at maximum. Also the count of all of them together shouldn't be higher than 9.

How to know if an artist or an album is dope?

Based on if it is both critically and fan acclaimed.

Credits

The music icon is from flaticon.com.

findrap.xyz's Issues

Video is off center in firefox 45.8.0 ESR

here is a screenshot: http://imgur.com/a/ZQeQO

DNS issue with findrap.xyz

Looks like DNS isn't resolving for the domain https://www.whatsmydns.net/#A/findrap.xyz

Invalid SSL Cert.

Just quick note, looks like SSL might have expired