catalog.getAudioSearch

Search for audios

Parameters:

Name	Value
need_blocks (optional)	0 — return only section names and ids, 1 — also return blocks
query (optional)	Audio name or performer to search for. If empty only suggestions are returned
context (optional)	Id of the context

Context ids are returned in the context field when searching. For example, they are needed to search for the specific artist.

Example (VK Official):

curl_setopt(
    $ch, CURLOPT_URL, "https://api.vk.com/method/catalog.getAudioSearch"
);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,
    "v=5.116&https=1&need_blocks=0&lang=en&access_token=".TOKEN
);

<?php

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

use Vodka2\VKAudioToken\SupportedClients;

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

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

curl_setopt(
    $ch, CURLOPT_URL, "https://api.vk.com/method/catalog.getAudioSearch"
);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,
    "v=5.116&https=1&need_blocks=0&lang=en&access_token=".TOKEN
);

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