Python wrapper to get musical tags of an artist using MusicBrainz as a database

musicbrainz-multiple-artist-api.py

import requests
import argparse
import sys
import json

# LOCAL FUNCTIONS

def encode_artist_name(value):
    return value.replace(' ', '+')

# ARGUMENT

parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Python wrapper to get musical tags of an artist using MusicBrainz as a database')
parser.add_argument('artists', type=str, nargs='+', help='Artists name')
args = parser.parse_args()



# MAIN CODE

for artist in args.artists:
    try:
        response = requests.get("https://musicbrainz.org/ws/2/artist/?query={}&fmt=json".format(encode_artist_name(artist)))
        artist_data = json.loads(response.text)['artists'][0]
        if 'tags' in artist_data.keys():
            tags = artist_data['tags']
            if tags == []:
                print("Nobody has tagged {} yet".format(artist))
            else:
                print(artist + ": " + ', '.join([tag['name'] for tag in tags]))
        else:
            print("Nobody has tagged {} yet".format(artist))
    except:
        print(sys.exc_info()[0])
        raise

musicbrainz-multiple-artist.py

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import requests
import argparse
import sys

# LOCAL FUNCTIONS

def get_soup_from_url(url):
    response = requests.get(url)
    soup = BeautifulSoup(response.text, "html.parser")
    return soup

def encode_artist_name(value):
    return value.replace(' ', '+')

# ARGUMENT

parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Python wrapper to get musical tags of an artist using MusicBrainz as a database')
parser.add_argument('artists', type=str, nargs='+', help='Artists name')
args = parser.parse_args()



# MAIN CODE

for artist in args.artists:
    try:
        baseurl = 'https://musicbrainz.org'
        soup = get_soup_from_url(
                "{}/search?query={}&type=artist&method=indexed"
                .format(baseurl, encode_artist_name(artist)))
        artist_link = soup.select('#content > table > tbody > tr > td > a')
        soup = get_soup_from_url(
                "{}{}/tags"
                .format(baseurl, artist_link[0]['href']))
        tags = soup.select('#all-tags > .tag-list > li > a > bdi')
        if tags == []:
            print("Nobody has tagged {} yet".format(artist))
        else:
            print(artist + ": " + ', '.join([tag.text for tag in tags]))
    except:
        print(sys.exc_info()[0])
        raise

musicbrainz-one-artist.py

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import requests
import argparse

# LOCAL FUNCTIONS

def get_soup_from_url(url):
    response = requests.get(url)
    soup = BeautifulSoup(response.text, "html.parser")
    return soup

def encode_artist_name(value):
    return value.replace(' ', '+')

# ARGUMENT

parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Python wrapper to get musical tags of an artist using MusicBrainz as a database')
parser.add_argument('artist', type=str, help='Artist name')
args = parser.parse_args()



# MAIN CODE

try:
    artist = args.artist
    baseurl = 'https://musicbrainz.org'
    soup = get_soup_from_url(
            "{}/search?query={}&type=artist&method=indexed"
            .format(baseurl, encode_artist_name(artist)))
    artist_link = soup.select('#content > table > tbody > tr > td > a')
    soup = get_soup_from_url(
            "{}{}/tags"
            .format(baseurl, artist_link[0]['href']))
    tags = soup.select('#all-tags > .tag-list > li > a > bdi')
except e:
    tags = []

if tags == []:
    print("Nobody has tagged this artist yet")
else:
    print([tag.text for tag in tags])

How to use it

Install beautifulsoup and requests packages (with pip) and then execute

python musicbrainz-multiple-artist-api.py "East 17" "Jackson 5"
python musicbrainz-multiple-artist.py Oasis U2
python musicbrainz-one-artist.py Triana