Rate Your Music Fast Search

This program utilizes command line arguments to quickly search the databases of rateyourmusic.com.

Update for Feb 2021 I know RYM recently has gone through a couple of major sitewide updates. These commands should still work though they might not forever as RYM is continuing to roll out new updates as part of their new development plan and at some point, they might move something around that breaks some of the functionality here. As part of their development plan features eventually having an API, I am not going to make any updates to this script until they release the API because using that would open up many awesome features.

Usage:

• Artist Search: rym.py name of artist/band seperated by spaces

  • Brings user to entered artist's page.
  • Example: rym.py my bloody valentine

• Film Search: rym.py film name of film seperated by spaces

  • Brings user to entered film's page.
  • Example: rym.py film eternal sunshine of the spotless mind

• Album Search: rym.py album name of album seperated by spaces -- artist name seperated by spaces

  • Brings user to entered album's page.
  • Example: rym.py album my beautiful dark twisted fantasy -- kanye west

• Genre Search: rym.py genre name of genre seperated by spaces

  • Brings user to top of all time list for entered genre.
  • Example: rym.py genre progressive rock
  • Some genres require punctuation
    • Example: rym.py genre post-punk

• Year Search: rym.py year yearDate

  • Brings user to top of all time for given year.
  • Example: rym.py year 1977
  • You can also search by decade
    • Example: rym.py year 1980s

• Top Albums of All Time: rym.py top

  • Brings user to overall top of all time for albums.

• Top Films of All Time: rym.py topfilms

  • Brings user to overall top of all time for films.

• RYM Home Page: rym.py

  • Brings user to rateyourmusic.com.

• Bring Up Help Menu: rym.py --help

Album Search will only work for full lengths. Adding every release type is more effort than automating search is worth.

Purpose:

I use rate your music constantly so to speed up my searching of the website, I created this script to quickly get me to the page I want.

Certain pages benefit from this script more than others however, every option is faster to search from the command line. Film pages and charts are annoying to get to from the actual website so the script helps a lot in those cases.

This script will benefit you the most if you set a path to it in your bash_profile.