Monday April 04, 2011 11:16

LaunchBar Search Templates for AllMusic

I made these search templates for LaunchBar this morning for performing quick searches on AllMusic. Because AllMusic displays different output for their search queries depending on whether or not there is a unique match, using these templates to spoof a POST request from their search box will give you much better results than using the GET-based URL scheme for their search result list pages.

To add your own search templates to LaunchBar, select “Show Index” from the “Index” menu, and select “Search Templates (UTF-8)” from the source list on the left. (AllMusic.com is UTF-8 encoded.) Click “Add…” at the bottom of the right panel and enter a name for your template and the format of the template itself in the new row that is created.

AllMusic Search Templates:

Name:   AllMusic Artist
Details: post-http://allmusic.com/search?search_type=artist&search_term=*
Name:   AllMusic Album
Details: post-http://allmusic.com/search?search_type=album&search_term=*
Name:    AllMusic Song
Details: post-http://allmusic.com/search?search_type=song&search_term=*
Name:    AllMusic Classical Work
Details: post-http://allmusic.com/search?search_type=work&search_term=*

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