control-sonos.py

# Run this in conjunction with https://github.com/jishi/node-sonos-http-api

import urllib.request
import json
import time 

BANNED_ARTISTS = ['drake']

while True:
    state = json.loads(urllib.request.urlopen("http://localhost:5005/state").read().decode('utf-8'))
    artist = state['currentTrack']['artist'].lower()
    if any(artist in s for s in BANNED_ARTISTS):
        print("%s is not allowed in this place" % artist)
        urllib.request.urlopen("http://localhost:5005/next")
    time.sleep(2)