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/* Copyright (c) 2011 Ivan Ivanenko <ivan.ivanenko@gmail.com> * * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal * in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights * to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell * copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is * furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: * * The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in * all copies or substantial portions of the Software. * * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR * IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE * AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER * LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, * OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN * THE SOFTWARE. */ package com.foobnix.util; import java.io.IOException; import java.util.ArrayList; import java.util.List; import org.apache.http.HttpResponse; import org.apache.http.NameValuePair; import org.apache.http.client.ClientProtocolException; import org.apache.http.client.HttpClient; import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet; import org.apache.http.client.utils.URLEncodedUtils; import org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultHttpClient; import org.apache.http.message.BasicNameValuePair; import org.apache.http.util.EntityUtils; import org.json.JSONException; import org.json.JSONObject; public class LyricUtil { public static String fetchLyric(String artist, String title) { List<NameValuePair> params = new ArrayList<NameValuePair>(); params.add(new BasicNameValuePair("artist", artist)); params.add(new BasicNameValuePair("song", title)); params.add(new BasicNameValuePair("fmt", "json")); String paramsList = URLEncodedUtils.format(params, "UTF-8"); HttpGet request = new HttpGet("http://lyricwiki.org/api.php?" + paramsList); HttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient(); try { HttpResponse execute = client.execute(request); String response = EntityUtils.toString(execute.getEntity()); LOG.d(response); if (response != null && response.indexOf('{') > 0) { JSONObject obj = new JSONObject(response.substring(response.indexOf('{'))); return obj.getString("lyrics"); } } catch (ClientProtocolException e) { LOG.e("", e); } catch (IOException e) { LOG.e("", e); } catch (JSONException e) { LOG.e("", e); } return "Lyric not found"; } }