itunespy

itunespy is a simple library to fetch data from the iTunes Store API made for Python 3.X.

Installing

You can install it from pip:

pip install itunespy

Or you can simply clone this project anywhere in your computer:

git clone https://github.com/spaceisstrange/itunespy.git

And then enter the cloned repo and execute:

python setup.py install

Dependencies

itunespy requires Requests installed.

Examples and information

Search an artist and show all its album's names:

import itunespy

artist = itunespy.search_artist('Steven Wilson')  # Returns a list
albums = artist[0].get_albums()  # Get albums from the first result

for album in albums:
    print(album.collection_name)

Or search an album and show all its song's names and length, and finally the album length:

import itunespy

album = itunespy.search_album('One Hour By The Concrete Lake')  # Returns a list
tracks = album[0].get_tracks()  # Get tracks from the first result

for track in tracks:
    print(track.artist_name + ': ' + track.track_name + str(track.get_track_time_minutes()))
print('Total playing time: ' + str(album[0].get_album_time()))

Or search for a track:

import itunespy

track = itunespy.search_track('Iter Impius')  # Returns a list
print(track[0].artist_name + ': ' + track[0].track_name + ' | Length: ' + str(track[0].get_track_time_minutes())) # Get info from the first result

Or ebook authors:

import itunespy

author = itunespy.search_book_author('Fyodor Dostoevsky')  # Search for Dostoevsky

books = author[0].get_books()  # Get books from the firs result

for book in books:
    print(book.track_name)  # Show each book's name

Or software:

import itunespy

telegram = itunespy.search_software('Telegram')

print(telegram[0].track_name)  # Prints 'Telegram Messenger'

Basically, every search_ method is just an alias for a general search with certain parameters to make your life easier.

I made the basic ones, if you miss any, make an issue and provide information about the type you want added.

You can also perform a lookup:

import itunespy

lookup = itunespy.lookup(upc=720642462928) # Lookup for the Weezer's album 'Weezer'

for item in lookup:
    print(item.artist_name + ': ' + item.collection_name)

Since every search or lookup can return more than one object type, every object in the returned list has a 'type' property, so you can check if it's an artist, album or track like this:

import itunespy

lookup = itunespy.lookup(id=428011728)  # Steven Wilson's ID

for l in lookup:
    if l.type == 'artist':
        print('Artist!')
        print(l.artist_type)  # Since it's an artist, you can also check its artist type

For a complete list, take a look at the wrapperType and kind documentation in the iTunes API's site.

Each request has some parameters that you need to know. Searches has these:

term: The URL-encoded text string you want to search for. Example: Steven Wilson.
        The function will take care of spaces so you don't have to.
country: The two-letter country code for the store you want to search.
        For a full list of the codes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%20ISO_3166-1_alpha-2
media: The media type you want to search for. Since this module is made for music I recommend leaving it blank.
entity: The type of results you want returned, relative to the specified media type. Example: musicArtist.
        Full list: musicArtist, musicTrack, album, musicVideo, mix, song
attribute: The attribute you want to search for in the stores, relative to the specified media type.
limit: The number of search results you want the iTunes Store to return.

Note: Only the term is obligatory, the other ones have default values that will be used in case you don't provide any. Note 2: In specific searches, like search_artist or search_album, etc, don't change entity, since it's configured inside the function to retrieve an specific entity.

For lookups, the same parameters apply except for term, which changes to a couple of id fields:

id: iTunes ID of the artist/album/track
artist_amg_id: All Music Guide ID of the artist
upc: UPCs/EANs

Every search and lookup will always return a list of result_item instances, except if it's an artist, album, movie artist or an ebook author, which inheritates from result_item but has extra methods, like get_albums in music_artist. Each object has their own variables, following the iTunes API names adapted to Python syntax.

To take a look at all of this simply go to the item_result class.

Future features

Take a look at the issues section to see what's going on with the features I want to add. Issues.

Note: all these features will be first implemented in the future branch and then merged with master and pushed to PyPi.

Contributing

I'm accepting any pull request to improve or fix anything in the library, just fork the project and hack it!

Note: if you make any change to the code, please make them in the future branch.