Get the HTML for an Artist Select Tag

Venue Driver provides an API method that will return HTML code for an artist select box, to be inserted directly into a web page. For example, to get a drop-down select box for all artist in Venue Driver, you might call a URL like this:

http://www.venuedriver.com/api/artists/select_tag.html?username=yourusername&password=yourpassword


You can test from the command line using the cURL utility:

curl 'http://www.venuedriver.com/api/artists/select_tag.html?username=yourusername&password=yourpassword'


It will return something like this:

<select id="artists" name="artists"><option value="1">Above &amp; Beyond</option>
<option value="2">Adventure Club</option>
<option value="3">Afrojack</option>
<option value="4">Alvaro</option>
<option value="5">Arty</option>
...
<option value="119">Oliver Heldens</option>
<option value="121">OB-One</option>
<option value="122">Irie</option></select>


Using that resource URL is pretty simple. In Ruby for example it looks like this:

url = "http://www.venuedriver.com/api/artists/select_tag.html?username=yourusername&password=yourpassword"
artists_html = Net::HTTP.get_response(URI.parse(url))


Then you can just drop that HTML snippet into your form with <%= artists_html %> or the equivalent in PHP or whatever. That gives you a simple way to build a form that can request a list of artists.

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