Grabs full size iTunes artwork for search parameters on the command line

itunesart.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
import httplib
import json
import re
import sys
from urllib import quote_plus

def iTunesData(keywords, media = 'all'):
    iTunesDomain = 'itunes.apple.com'
    if media not in ['movie', 'podcast', 'music', 'musicVideo', 'audiobook', 'shortFilm', 'tvShow', 'software', 'ebook', 'all']:
        media = 'all'
    queryString = '/search?media=' + media + '&term=' + quote_plus(keywords)
    connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection(iTunesDomain)
    connection.request('GET', queryString)
    response = connection.getresponse()
    return response.read()

def jsonParse(data):
    decoder = json.JSONDecoder(strict = False)
    return decoder.decode(data)

def artworkURL(iTunesJSON, resultIndex = 0):
    if iTunesJSON['resultCount'] > 0:
        result = iTunesJSON['results'][resultIndex]
        return re.sub(r'\.\d+x\d+-\d+', '', result['artworkUrl100'])
    else:
        print 'No results found'
        return None

def main(keywords = None):
    if keywords != None:
        pass
    elif len(sys.argv) > 1:
        keywords = ' '.join(sys.argv[1:])
    else:
        print 'No search keywords supplied'
        sys.exit(1)    
    data = iTunesData(keywords)
    myresults = jsonParse(data)
    print artworkURL(myresults)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()
    sys.exit(0)