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#115 Add script for pulling artist images from iTunes/Apple Music

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nobody
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2021-03-18
2019-07-20
Owen
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Would you please be able to add a script for pulling artist images from iTunes?

Example image for "The Beatles": https://is4-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Features/v4/77/e2/28/77e228ad-f685-23af-17a7-6aafee80e0b2/mzl.iqsemtpx.jpg/570x570cc.jpg

Discussion

  • AlexVallat

    AlexVallat - 2019-07-20
    • status: open --> closed
     

    • Owen

      Owen - 2019-07-20

      Thanks for looking at the ticket, but that script only seems to pull down album images, and not artist images. Or is there another setting I'm not seeing?

       

  • AlexVallat

    AlexVallat - 2019-07-20
    • status: closed --> open
     

  • AlexVallat

    AlexVallat - 2019-07-20

    Oh, sorry, my mistake didn't look clearly enough. The script is just for album images, yes, not artist imges.

     

  • Owen

    Owen - 2021-03-18

    Not sure if this is still something that could be looked at, but I've been playing around with the PowerShell Invoke-RestMethod function and have managed to put together a rudimentary iTunes artist image download function, which could probably by recreated in Boo by someone more adept at scripting than me?

    An example for "The Beatles" would be as follows:

    Invoke-RestMethod -Uri "https://itunes.apple.com/search?country=US&entity=musicArtist&term=the+beatles" | Select-Object -ExpandProperty results | Where-Object { $_.artistName -eq "The Beatles" } | Select-Object -ExpandProperty artistLinkUrl

    This returns an array of artist page URLs:

    https://music.apple.com/us/artist/the-beatles/136975?uo=4
    https://music.apple.com/us/artist/the-beatles/1502588323?uo=4

    You can then do a regex match on the HTML content of each URL to find the relevant image path, which currently seems to end with "380x380cc-60.jpg", and perform the same replacement functions as the album art script to get the largest image possible.

     

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