A simple python wrapper to access iTunes Store API http://www.apple.com/itunes/affiliates/resources/documentation/itunes-store-web-service-search-api.html
Pypi package available at http://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-itunes/1.0
$ easy_install python-itunes
Or download the code from https://github.com/ocelma/python-itunes/archives/master and then
$ python setup.py install
Note
If you're using python version <= 2.5 you'll need to install simplejson. E.g:
$ easy_install simplejson
import itunes # Search band U2 artist = itunes.search_artist('u2')[0] for album in artist.get_albums(): for track in album.get_tracks(): print album.get_name(), album.get_url(), track.get_name(), track.get_duration(), track.get_preview() # Search U2 videos videos = itunes.search(query='u2', media='musicVideo') for video in videos: print video.get_name(), video.get_preview(), video.get_artwork() # Search Volta album by Björk album = itunes.search_album('Volta Björk')[0] # Global Search 'Beatles' items = itunes.search(query='beatles') for item in items: print '[' + item.type + ']', item.get_artist(), item.get_name(), item.get_url(), item.get_release_date() # Search 'Angry Birds' game item = itunes.search(query='angry birds', media='software')[0] item.get_version() item.get_price() item.get_url() item.get_seller_url() item.get_screenshots() item.get_languages() item.get_avg_rating() item.get_num_ratings()
import itunes # Lookup Achtung Baby album by U2 U2_ACHTUNGBABY_ID = 475390461 album = itunes.lookup(U2_ACHTUNGBABY_ID) print album.get_url() print album.get_artwork() artist = album.get_artist() tracks = album.get_tracks() # Lookup song One from Achtung Baby album by U2 U2_ONE_ID = 475391315 track = itunes.lookup(U2_ONE_ID) artist = track.get_artist() album = track.get_album()
import itunes if not itunes.is_caching_enabled(): itunes.enable_caching('/tmp/itunes_cache') #If no param given it creates a folder in /tmp #From now on all JSON results are cached here: print itunes.__cache_dir
$ nosetests tests