API?

[Jdkru]

Does anyone know if there is an API to this database? If not that would be great.
I love working in spreadsheets and would love to be able to fill in all the missing data on my lists!
Thanks.
J

[albummaster]

There's no API currently available (might happen in the future). If you've not already discovered them, CSV downloads might help bridge the gap (all charts can be downloaded to CSV).

[Jdkru]

Yeah I went in and tried to download all the top charts by decade, which you would think would cover all of the big albums, however, there seem to be obvious ones missing. for Example:
Lady in Satin, Billie Holiday (No. 317 on RS Top 500 2020)
Can't Get Enough, Barry White (No. 283 on RS Top 500 2012)
Nick of Time and Give It Up, Bonnie Raitt (Nos. 230 and 495 Respectively on RS Top 500 2012)
II, Boyz II Men (No. 495 on RS Top 500 2020)

For the record, these aren't my favorite albums but I am listening through all the RS Top 500 albums and personally rating and comparing the lists to one another. I'd like to have the information for all of them. It would seem that if RS says its one of the Top 500 of All Time, (whatever that means) it would at least land on a decade list with the parameters wide open on your Stats. (in effect it is saying that these albums don't have enough ratings to even land on the lists, doesn't seem possible)

Here is a list of the artists that don't appear on any of the decade lists that are somewhere on RS's lists or on NMEs list

Babyshambles
Barry White
Billie Holiday
Bonnie Raitt
Boyz II Men
Buddy Holly
Daddy Yankee
Harry Styles
Heartbreakers
Jackie Wilson
Janet
Juvenile
Kelis
LaBelle
Little Richard
Little Walter
Luther Vandross
Malcolm McLaren
Mary J. Blige
Peter Wolf
Phil Spector
Prodigy
Professor Longhair
Pussy Galore
Rufus and Chaka Khan
Sister Sledge
The Crickets
The Drifters
The Futureheads

Is there another way to download data. I'm honestly ok with getting a sheet with 50K lines in it. Thanks.

[Jdkru]

So I just found where I can get the top 10,000 on the chart and that seems to have encompassed a lot more.
Thanks for your help.

This will keep me busy for a while.

[PurpleHazel]

Little Richard, Billie Holiday, the Crickets and Buddy Holly are all in the top 20 of the 1950s decade chart.

[violafist]