PhantomStats.py

import requests
import json
import datetime

def getlisteners(url):
    stats = json.loads(requests.get(url).text)
    print(stats)
    try:
        listeners = stats['icestats']['source'][0]['listeners']
    except KeyError:
        listeners = stats['icestats']['source']['listeners']
    return listeners

def now():
    return datetime.datetime.utcnow()

newdata = {}
newdata['time'] = str(now())
newdata['listeners'] = getlisteners('https://phantommedia.radioca.st/status-json.xsl')
print(newdata)

try:
    with open('_data/PhantomListeners.json','r', encoding='utf-8', newline='\n') as f:
        olddata = json.loads(f.read())
except FileNotFoundError:
    old_data = []

olddata.append(newdata)

with open('_data/PhantomListeners.json','wt', encoding='utf-8', newline='\n') as f:
    f.write(json.dumps(olddata,indent=4)+"\n")
    print(now(),"PhantomListeners.json saved")