how to get "billboard hot 100" chart listing via billboard API

Question

I have been trying for hours on how to exactly get the "billboard hot 100" chart (The results matching to http://www.billboard.com/#/charts/hot-100)... but have had no success till yet.

I have gone through the API documentation at http://developer.billboard.com/docs thoroughly...

And from what i understand from here -> developer.billboard.com/docs/read/The_Chart_Service/Resources/Chart_Spec "billboard hot 100" has id "379"

But when i use it in chart item call, like this -> api.billboard.com/apisvc/chart/v1/list?id=379&format=json&api_key=bvk4re5h37dzvx87h7rf5dqz

i just get an error :(

if anyone has experience using the api please help me...

Thanks

Answer 1

Update 2020-01-21

The RSS feed is now dead. You can view a historical snapshot of the feed at archive.org https://web.archive.org/web/2020*/http://www.billboard.com/rss/charts/hot-100.

However you will likely need to use web scraping to get the data now.

• NodeJS scraper: https://github.com/darthbatman/billboard-top-100

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The Billboard API seems to dead now with no sign of anyone maintaining it.

However they do provide a rss feed for the Hot 100 see http://www.billboard.com/rss/charts/hot-100. You might be able to get the information you need from that.