Makes a list of the music in your iTunes library and exports it to a file in xml or json format.

itunes_lib_export.py

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
"""
    File Name: library_export.py
    Author: Ari Madian
    Created: October 15, 2017 1:00 PM
    Python Version: 3.6


    Makes a list of the music in your iTunes library
    and exports it in either xml or JSON
    - To Use
        Put the script file in the itunes music directory and run it.
        To export in JSON, python library_export.py -json
        To export in XML, python library_export.py -xml

    - Non standard dependencies
       - dicttoxml
       - lxml


        Edit Oct 29, 2017 - This is already a feature in iTunes so this is pretty much useless.
                            I'll still leave the gist up becuase I'm kinda proud of the code.
"""

import sys
import os
import json
import dicttoxml
from xml.etree import ElementTree as ET

library = {}
script_path = os.path.os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(sys.argv[0]))
export_format = sys.argv[1:]


# Building Dictionary
artists = os.listdir(script_path)

for artist in artists:
    library[artist] = None

for thing in os.walk(script_path):
    Path_Artist = thing[0].split('/')[5:]

    if len(Path_Artist) >= 2:
        print(thing[0].split('/')[5:], thing[2:])
        artist_name = thing[0].split('/')[5:][0]
        album_name = thing[0].split('/')[5:][1]
        song_list = [song[3:-4] for song in thing[2:]]

        if library[artist_name] is not None:
            l = list(library[artist_name])
            l.append({album_name: song_list})
            library[artist_name] = tuple(l)
        elif library[artist_name] is None:
            library[artist_name] = ({album_name: song_list})


# Exporting
if export_format == '-json':
    with open('file.txt', 'w') as file:
        file.write(json.dumps(library))
elif export_format == '-xml':
    xml = dicttoxml.dicttoxml(library, attr_type=False)
    tree = ET.XML(xml)
    with open('export.xml', 'w') as f:
        f.write(str(ET.tostring(tree)))