A short PHP script to query Amazon Web Services for the large cover image of the passed artist and album.
The script returns the direct url to the image for easy wgetting.
Note: You must have an AWS account before using this script.
An AWS account is free and easy to setup.
$ albumart.php
usage: albumart <options>
options:
-a, --artist=ARTIST artist name to search for
-b, --album=ALBUM album name to search for
$ albumart.php -a 'Red Hot Chili Peppers' -b 'Californication'
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61P2to5ZL8L.jpg
$ albumart.php -a 'blahblah' -b 'blahblah'
no results found.
The following environment variables must be exported or otherwise set before calling the script. It's how it finds its library and authenticates the AWS request.
AWS_LIB- full path to the directory containing AWSSoapClient.phpAWS_CERT_FILE- full path to your cert-* file as downloaded from your aws dashboardAWS_PRIVATE_KEY_FILE- full path to your pk-* file as downloaded from your aws dashboard
As for system configuration, the following (non-default) extensions are required for php:
- openssl.so
- soap.so
- mcrypt.so
The last requires the php-mcrypt package (and its libmcrypt
dependency).
This script contains my Associate Tag. Recently, AWS required this as a parameter to all requests (breaking this script). Rather than make yet-another-environment-variable or commandline option, I chose to just setup an associate tag for my site and hardcode it in the script.
What does this mean?
I may make 0.00000001 cents each time you use this script. To be honest, I have no idea what the figures are or how it works. I don't really care if this results in me making money (unless it's a lot, which I assume it's not).
Bottom line -- if it matters to you, get your own associate tag and
update line 24 in albumart.php.