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

Made with Colly and Bubbletea.

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