MySpace API Unveiled

There's plenty of unofficial APIs for MySpace floating around but despite acknowledgement from MySpace management of Facebook's powerful interface and its popularity with developers and meek promises to counter with a similar move, we haven't seen anything yet... until now.   The web album services interface on http://media.myspace.com/services/media/albums.asmx gives a hint of a fuller API.  The following operations are supported for web albums:

  • GetAlbums
  • GetAlbumsSlideShow
  • GetImagesCount
  • InsertAlbum

    • To give you a taste and to have an archival excerpt in case the page disappears, the following is a sample SOAP 1.2 request and response for GetAlbumsSlideShow:
    <pre>POST /services/media/albums.asmx HTTP/1.1
    Host: media.myspace.com
    Content-Type: application/soap+xml; charset=utf-8
    Content-Length: <font class="value">length</font>

    &lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?&gt;
    &lt;soap12:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:soap12="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope"&gt;
    &lt;soap12:Body&gt;
    &lt;GetAlbumsSlideShow xmlns="http://myspace.com/services/media"&gt;
    &lt;friendId&gt;<font class="value">int</font>&lt;/friendId&gt;
    &lt;token&gt;<font class="value">string</font>&lt;/token&gt;
    &lt;/GetAlbumsSlideShow&gt;
    &lt;/soap12:Body&gt;
    &lt;/soap12:Envelope&gt;</pre>
    <pre>HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    Content-Type: application/soap+xml; charset=utf-8
    Content-Length: <font class="value">length</font>

    &lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?&gt;
    &lt;soap12:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:soap12="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope"&gt;
    &lt;soap12:Body&gt;
    &lt;GetAlbumsSlideShowResponse xmlns="http://myspace.com/services/media"&gt;
    &lt;GetAlbumsSlideShowResult&gt;
    &lt;MiniAlbumSlideShow&gt;
    &lt;AlbumId&gt;<font class="value">int</font>&lt;/AlbumId&gt;
    &lt;Hash&gt;<font class="value">string</font>&lt;/Hash&gt;
    &lt;Title&gt;<font class="value">string</font>&lt;/Title&gt;
    &lt;/MiniAlbumSlideShow&gt;
    &lt;MiniAlbumSlideShow&gt;
    &lt;AlbumId&gt;<font class="value">int</font>&lt;/AlbumId&gt;
    &lt;Hash&gt;<font class="value">string</font>&lt;/Hash&gt;
    &lt;Title&gt;<font class="value">string</font>&lt;/Title&gt;
    &lt;/MiniAlbumSlideShow&gt;
    &lt;/GetAlbumsSlideShowResult&gt;
    &lt;/GetAlbumsSlideShowResponse&gt;
    &lt;/soap12:Body&gt;
    &lt;/soap12:Envelope&gt;</pre>

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