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Reads AAC stream .pls files of all the Di.fm channels, and puts their title and URL into an .XML file that MusicBee's radio station import can read
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DiFmDownloader.py
#!/usr/bin/python
import json
import urllib.request
class Main:
def __init__(self):
# XML Formatting Strings
xmlPre = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><opml version="2.0"><head><title>MusicBee Radio Station List</title><dateCreated>Tue, 29 Jul 2014 13:37:00 GMT</dateCreated></head><body>\n'
xmlPost = '</body></opml>'
outputString = xmlPre
# Open main link, get a JSON object of retrieved data
data = urllib.request.urlopen('http://listen.di.fm/public1').read()
jsonData = json.loads(data.decode("utf8"))
# Loop through each channel
for obj in jsonData:
# Parse an object out of each channel's JSON data
data = urllib.request.urlopen(obj["playlist"]).read().decode("utf8").strip().splitlines()
# Add the URL and stream Title from the channel's object to the final output string
# Put genre, bitrate, and format into category. Use the title (Without the Di.fm branding) for genre
outputString += '<outline text="'+ data[3].split('Title1=')[1].replace("&", "and") +'" description="" category="'+ data[3].split('Title1=')[1].split('-')[1].strip().replace("&", "and") +'/AAC/64k/" type="link" url="'+ data[2].split('File1=')[1] +'" />\n'
# Add the rest of the necessary XML to the output string
outputString += xmlPost
outputFile = open("difm.xml", "w+")
outputFile.write(outputString)
outputFile.close()
main = Main()
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