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Opens a song from the iTunes Top 100 in youtube (chosen at random)
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''' | |
1) Gets top 100 songs from iTunes chart | |
2) Plays a random song from this list in YouTube | |
license: public domain | |
Dependancies: | |
1) BeautifulSoup http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/ | |
''' | |
from urllib2 import urlopen | |
from webbrowser import open_new_tab | |
from random import choice | |
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup | |
def get_song_list(): | |
'''Return the top 100 songs from Apple's iTunes charts.''' | |
URL = 'http://www.apple.com/itunes/charts/songs/' | |
soup = BeautifulSoup(urlopen(URL).read()) | |
titles = (sp.a.string.encode('ascii', 'ignore') for sp in soup('h3')[:99] | |
if len(sp('a')) == 1) | |
artists = (sp.a.string.encode('ascii', 'ignore') for sp in soup('h4')[:99] | |
if len(sp('a')) == 1) | |
return ['{0} {1}'.format(a, t) for a, t in zip(artists, titles)] | |
def play_song(search_term): | |
'''Play song in YouTube.''' | |
URL = ("https://www.google.com/search?btnI=I'm+Feeling+Lucky&ie=UTF-8" | |
"&oe=UTF-8&q=site:youtube.com%20inurl:http://www.youtube.com/" | |
"watch?v=%20{0}".format(search_term)) | |
open_new_tab(URL) | |
def main(): | |
songs = get_song_list() | |
play_song(choice(songs)) | |
main() |
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