cloudplaya Python module and command line client for Amazon Cloud Player
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cloudplaya is a Python library and command line utility for querying Amazon's Cloud Player service. It can be used to build playlists, download songs, or integrate with other software that needs to talk to Cloud Player.InstallationTo install cloudplaya, just run: sudo easy_install cloudplayaAuthenticatingYou will need to first authenticate with Amazon Cloud Player. This will store .cloudplayarc file in your home directory containing some session information. Note that it's possible you may have to repeat this on occasion.To authenticate, run: cloudplaya authenticate --username < email_address > --password < password >Replace < email_address > and < password > with your Amazon account e-mail and password above.You're then ready to use cloudplaya!Commandscloudplaya has a few different commands that are used to fetch data from Amazon Cloud Player. They each have their own arguments, and are invoked like: cloudplaya command get-albumDisplays information on an album. It requires the --artist and --name options, and will show some basic information on the album.For example: cloudplaya get-album --artist "The Birthday Massacre" --name "Walking With Strangers"Walking With Strangers by The Birthday Massacre (12 tracks)You can use --format to specify the format for display. This defaults to %(name)s by %(artist_name)s (%(num_tracks)s tracks). Use %r with any query to see all the available options. (This will display a Python dictionary of the data.)get-albumsLists all the albums in the account, or all matching the given options.You can use --artist to specify an artist name. In this case, it will show all albums by that artist. If you don't specify an artist, all albums in your account will be listed.For example: cloudplaya get-albums --artist "Greg Edmonson"FireflyYou can use --format to specify the format for display. This defaults to %(name)s by %(artist_name)s (%(num_tracks)s tracks). Use %r with any query to see all the available options. (This will display a Python dictionary of the data.)get-artistsLists all artists with albums in your account.For example:cloudplaya get-artists...Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross (56 tracks)Various Artists (1 tracks)Video Games Live (18 tracks)...You can use --format to specify the format for display. This defaults to %(name)s (%(num_tracks)s tracks). Use %r with any query to see all the available options. (This will display a Python dictionary of the data.)get-songsLists all songs in the account, or all matching the given options.You can narrow down the results by using one or more of --artist, --album, or --title.For example: cloudplaya get-songs --album "Walking With Strangers"The Birthday Massacre - Falling DownThe Birthday Massacre - GoodnightThe Birthday Massacre - Kill The LightsThe Birthday Massacre - Looking GlassThe Birthday Massacre - MovieThe Birthday Massacre - Red StarsThe Birthday Massacre - Remember MeThe Birthday Massacre - ScienceThe Birthday Massacre - To Die ForThe Birthday Massacre - UnfamiliarThe Birthday Massacre - Walking With StrangersThe Birthday Massacre - WeekendYou can use --format to specify the format for display. This defaults to %(artist_name)s - %(title)s'. Use %r with any query to see all the available options. (This will display a Python dictionary of the data.)get-stream-urlsLists URLs for one or more songs. These can be used to download or stream the songs.This command takes song IDs as parameters. You can retrieve a song ID by using the %(id)s format argument to get-songs above.For example: cloudplaya get-songs --album "Walking With Strangers" --format "%(id)s"12fad491-033f-43f2-9fff-c65a96ccf173... cloudplaya get-stream-urls 12fad491-033f-43f2-9fff-c65a96ccf173http://blahblah.amazonaws.com/lotsandlotsofstuff(IDs and URLs have been changed to protect the innocent.)download-albumDownloads all the songs in an album.This command requires the --album and --artist options. It can also take a --out-directory (or -o) to specify where to save the files (defaults to the current directory).It also can take a --format option to specify the filename format (defaults to %(album_name)s/%(track_num)s. %(title)s.%(extension)s). This will create any directories as needed.For example: cloudplaya download-album --album "Walking With Strangers" --artist "The Birthday Massacre"Progress will be reported as the album downloads.Product's homepage

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