VK Audio API reference for VK Audio Token

audio.getArtistById

Get information about artist by id.

Parameters:

Name	Value
artist_id	Id of the artist (for example, returned by audio.searchArtists)
extended (optional)	Return more information (id of the VK page for that artist)

Example (Kate):

$artistId = '1204512717686522332';

curl_setopt(
    $ch,
    CURLOPT_URL,
    "https://api.vk.com/method/audio.getArtistById?access_token=".TOKEN."&artist_id=".
    $artistId."&extended=1&v=5.95"
);

<?php

include __DIR__.'/../../autoloader.php';

use Vodka2\VKAudioToken\SupportedClients;

//Token obtained by example_microg.php script
define('TOKEN', $argv[1]);
define('USER_AGENT', SupportedClients::Kate()->getUserAgent());
$ch = curl_init();

curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('User-Agent: '.USER_AGENT));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

$artistId = '1204512717686522332';

curl_setopt(
    $ch,
    CURLOPT_URL,
    "https://api.vk.com/method/audio.getArtistById?access_token=".TOKEN."&artist_id=".
    $artistId."&extended=1&v=5.95"
);

echo json_encode(json_decode(curl_exec($ch)), JSON_PRETTY_PRINT | JSON_UNESCAPED_UNICODE)."\n\n";