streamscrobbler-python
This python module gets the metadata and song played on a stream. The metadata is content-type (mpeg, ACC, ACC+), bitrate and played song. It has support to handling pls files directly for now.
Dependencies
- Python 3.5
Streams supported
Supports the following streamtypes:
- Shoutcast
- Icecast
- probably other custom made that use icy-metaint
And also different stream services:
- Radionomy
- Streammachine
- tunein
How to use it
You use one function to get a dictionary of status and metadata. metadata is a dictionary of bitrate, content-type and songtitle.
See how to call it under here:
from streamscrobbler import streamscrobbler
##streamurl can be a url directly to the stream or to a pls file
streamurl = "http://somafm.com/seventies.pls"
stationinfo = streamscrobbler.get_server_info(streamurl)
##metadata is the bitrate and current song
metadata = stationinfo["metadata"]