bestnewmusic 0.4.1

View music reviews and weekly radio charts in the terminal

bestnewmusic

View recent highly rated albums in the terminal.

bnm supports the following sources:

• Pitchfork 8.0+ Albums
• Resident Advisor Recommends
• AllMusic Editor's Choice
• Forced Exposure Best Sellers
• Boomkat Best Sellers
• Midheaven Weekly Best Sellers
• WFMU Heavily Played Records

Installation

OSX

Some commands use Selenium and chromedriver to render Javascript-driven pages. On OSX, the easiest way to install these (if you don't have them already) is to use homebrew:

brew update
brew cask install google-chrome

then

pip install bestnewmusic

Ubuntu

Install the google-chrome-stable package from the Google Linux repo:

wget -q -O - https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | sudo apt-key add - 
sudo sh -c 'echo "deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google.list'
sudo apt-get update 
sudo apt-get install google-chrome-stable

Install bnm with pip:

pip install bestnewmusic

Usage

usage: bnm [-h] [-r] [-l LENGTH] {am, p4k, ra, bk, fe, mh, wfmu}

positional arguments:
  {am,p4k,ra,bk,fe,mh,wfmu}
    - am   : AllMusic Editor's Choice
    - p4k  : Pitchfork 8.0+ Albums
    - ra   : Resident Advisor Recommends
    - bk   : Boomkat Weekly Best Sellers
    - mh   : Midheaven Weekly Best Sellers
    - fe   : Forced Exposure Weekly Best Sellers
    - wfmu : WFMU Weekly Charts

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            Show this help message and exit
  -r, --reverse         Display items in reverse order (with most recent last)
  -l, --length          Number of items to display

Example

Show the WFMU weekly play charts for the current week, organized by frequency:

bnm wfmu

Show the first five most recent 8.0+ albums on Pitchfork (incl. reissues):

bnm p4k -l 5

Show the weekly bestsellers on Forced Exposure, ordered from least to most popular:

bnm fe -r