Script to grab 6music "what's playing" info and update an Icecast stream's metadata

get6musicMetadata.py

#!/usr/bin/python

import urllib, json, re, time

count = 0
sleep_timer = 10
while count <=5:

        try:
                clients = urllib.urlopen('http://admin:PASSWORD@192.168.1.128:8000/admin/listclients?mount=/6music')
        except Exception as e:
                print("Error connecting to icecast: " + str(e))
        pattern = re.compile("<Listeners>0</Listeners>")
        searchResult = pattern.search(clients.read())
        if searchResult is None:
                getUrl = 'https://polling.bbc.co.uk/radio/nhppolling/bbc_6music?&callback=nhprealtimepolling'
                try:
                        
                        response = urllib.urlopen(getUrl)
                except Exception as e:
                        print("Get url error: " + str(e))
                try:
                        data = response.read()
                        data = data[ data.index("(") + 1 : data.rindex(")")]
                        data = json.loads(data)
                        metadata = (data['packages']['richtracks'][0]['artist'] + ' - ' + data['packages']['richtracks'][0]['title']).encode('utf-8')
                        print(metadata)
                except Exception as e:
                        print("Error:" + str(e))
#                       print(json.dumps(data))
                try:
                        urllib.urlopen('http://admin:PASSWORD@192.168.1.128:8000/admin/metadata.xsl?song=' + str(urllib.quote_plus(metadata)) + '&mount=%2F6music&mode=updinfo&charset=UTF-8').read()
                except Exception as e:
                        print("Well that didn't work eh: " + str(e))
        else:
                print("Nobody listening")
                sleep_timer = 5
        time.sleep(sleep_timer)
        count = count + 1