Developing on the MyStrands Platform

Calling all developers! You can now build applications that leverage the power of MycStrands. The OpenStrands 1.0 web services platform is a set of web services for outside developers interested in adding MyStrands functionality to their non-commercial applications.

OpenStrands services allow you to programmatically perform many of the same functions available to you through the MyStrands website using a browser. Use of OpenStrands is free to registered MyStrands users, allowing you to write programs that use MyStrands music recommendation and discovery technology in new and different ways. The platform currently includes account, catalog, recommendation, playlist, tagging, and community services. There is a limit of 5,000 queries per day.

To learn more, register for an OpenStrands subscriber ID and download the OpenStrands Software Development Kit (SDK):

http://www.mystrands.com/openstrands/overview.vm

To help you get started quickly, examples are provided in Java, C#, and Python. You can call OpenStrands services from any language capable of issuing an HTTPS request and parsing the XML response.