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musicScraper

CLI tool for scraping information from musical website (Rateyourmusic, Metal Archives), with nice album ASCII art.

Features

Search for your favorite artists on Metallum and RateYourMusic (so far)
Show discography and album tracklist
Show album credits
Show user reviews.
RYM feature: Login and rate an album.
Metallum feature: Check similar artists.

Usage

Clone the repo and build the package with go build, with Go version >= 1.21. Put the binary file in ~/.local/bin.

Optionally, create a config.json file in ~/.config/musicScraper and write:

{
    "request_delay": 1,
    "authenticate": true,
    "save_cookies": true
}

request_delay allows you to slow down the web scraper, by setting the random delay interval (in seconds) between calls. It is highly recommended to set it between 1 and 5, since RateYourMusic may block your IP address if the calls are too fast. However, you can set it at 0 to disable it.
autheticate at true will make the app ask you for RYM username and password, you will be able to see and set your album ratings.
save_cookies will save a copy of your RYM cookies in the ~/.cache/musicScraper folder. If disabled, the app will always ask for username and password each time authenticate is true.

IMPORTANT: Cloudflare in Metal Archives

Since Metal Archives has implemented Cloudflare protection, you must export MetalArchives cookies in a ~/.cache/musicScraper/metallumCookie.json file. You have many options to export your cookies, one of them might be Cookie-Editor


musicScraper [OPTIONS] "name_of_artist"

-credits
        Display RYM credits
-expand
        Expand RYM albums (Equivalent of pressing "show all")
-website string
        Desired Website ('metallum' or 'rym')

Credits