Grooveshark API¶ ↑

Unofficial grooveshark API ruby library gives your ability to search and stream songs, manage playlists, media library and favorites. API was discovered using http proxy and does not pretend to be always valid due to website API changes.

Installation¶ ↑

gem install grooveshark

Getting Started¶ ↑

Lets first create a session. Grooveshark session is a regular PHP session with expiration date of 7 days.

require 'rubygems'
require 'grooveshark'

client = Grooveshark::Client.new

To get session key just call

session = client.session

You can store this key for 7 days after creation and use it like this:

client = Grooveshark::Client.new(SESSION_KEY)

Now we can find some songs:

songs = client.search_songs('Nirvana')

songs.each do |s|
  s.id          # Song ID
  s.name        # Song name
  s.artist      # Song artist name
  s.album       # Song album name
  s.duration    # Song duration in seconds (not always present, 0 by default)
end

We got collection of songs. Check Song object for additional attributes. In order to stream song we need to get the authorization

song = songs.first
url = client.get_song_url(song)

Given url is valid only for current session and cannot be shared or stored permanently. Also, it probably violates terms of service.

User Authentication¶ ↑

To get your user account you need to provide username and password. If username or password is not valid InvalidAuthentication exception will be raised.

client = Grooveshark::Client.new

begin
  user = client.login('username', 'password')
rescue InvalidAuthentication
  puts "Oooops! Wrong username or password"
end

Playlists and favorites¶ ↑

Get all user playlists

user.playlists.each do |p|
  p.id          # Playlist ID
  p.name        # Playlist name
  p.about       # Playlist description (empty by default)
end

Get user playlist

playlist = user.get_playlist(PLAYLIST_ID)

Get all playlist songs

playlist = user.get_playlist(ID)
playlist.load_songs
songs = playlist.songs

Rename existing playlist

playlist = user.get_playlist(ID)
playlist.rename('NEW NAME', 'NEW DESCRIPTION')

Delete existing user playlist

playlist = user.get_playlist(ID)
playlist.delete

Create a new playlist. First parameter is mandatory, description and songs are optional. For songs you can provide array of Song objects or array of IDs.

songs = client.search_songs('Joe Satriani')
p = user.create_playlist('NAME', 'DESCRIPTION', songs)

Get user favorite songs

songs = user.favorites

Add song to favorites

user.add_favorite(song) # Song object or song ID

Remove song from favorites

user.remove_favorite(song) # Song object or song ID

User library¶ ↑

Get all songs from library as a collection of Song objects

songs = user.library

Add songs to library

songs = client.search_songs('The Beatles')
user.library_add(songs)

Remove selected songs from library. Unfortunately mass-deletion is not supported by Grooveshark API. You will have to delete each song via separate method call.

song = user.library.first # Lest pick a first song in the library
user.library_remove(song)

Explore community¶ ↑

Get all recently active users

client.recent_users

Find user by ID

client.get_user_by_id('ID')

Find user by username

client.get_user_by_username('username')

Fetch recent user activity

user = client.get_user_by_username('user')
user.feed

Known issues¶ ↑

Communication token gets rejected after some time. This timeframe is always different. Additional research didnt show any results.

TODO¶ ↑

Testing
Library management coverage
More methods

Credits¶ ↑

Dan Sosedoff - github.com/sosedoff
Daniel Lamando - github.com/danopia

snake-poison / grooveshark