AMPACHE LIBRARY FOR PYTHON3

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INFO

A python3 library for interaction with your Ampache server using the XML & JSON API

<https://ampache.org/api/>_

Code examples and scripts are available from github

The class documentation has been extracted out into a markdown file for easier reading.

<https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ampache/python3-ampache/master/docs/MANUAL.md>_

This library supports connecting to any Ampache API release (3, 4, 5 and 6)

Once you connect with your passphrase or api key, the url and auth token are stored allowing you to call methods without them.

.. code-block:: python3

import ampache
import sys
import time

# Open Ampache library
ampache_connection = ampache.API()

# Set your server details
ampache_connection.set_version('6.6.1')
ampache_connection.set_url('https://music.com.au')
ampache_connection.set_key('mypassword')
ampache_connection.set_user('myusername')

# Password auth requires a timestamp for encrypting the auth key
ampache_session = ampache_connection.execute('handshake', {'timestamp': int(time.time())})
if not ampache_session:
    # if using an api key you don't need the timestamp to use encrypt_string
    ampache_session = ampache_connection.execute('handshake')

# Fail if you didn't connect
if not ampache_session:
    sys.exit(ampache_connection.AMPACHE_VERSION + ' ERROR Failed to connect to ' + ampache_connection.AMPACHE_URL)

# now you can call methods without having to keep putting in the url and userkey
artists = ampache_connection.execute('artists', {'limit': 10})

# You can parse a response to get a list of ID's for that response
artist_ids = ampache_connection.get_id_list(artists, 'artist')
if artist_ids:
    print("We found some artists")
    for artist in artist_ids:
        print('ID:', artist)

# ping has always allowed empty calls so you have to ping with a session key
ampache_connection.execute('ping', {'ampache_api': ampache_session})

NEWS

Examples are being updated to support the latest execute method which can simplify your code
You can save and restore from a json config file using new methods
- set_config_path: Set a folder to your config path
- get_config: Load the config and set Ampache globals
- save_config: Save the config file with the current globals
- AMPACHE_URL = The URL of your Ampache server
- AMPACHE_USER = config["ampache_user"]
- AMPACHE_KEY = Your encrypted apikey OR password if using password auth
- AMPACHE_SESSION = Current session auth from the handshake. Use to reconnect to an existing session
- AMPACHE_API = API output format "json" || "xml"

INSTALL

You can now install from pip directly::

pip3 install -U ampache

EXAMPLES

There is a fairly simple cli example for windows/linux to perform a few functions. It's a good example for testing and might make things a bit easier to follow.

<https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ampache/python3-ampache/master/docs/examples/ampyche.py>_

ampyche.py help:

.. code-block:: bash

Possible Actions:

    /u:%CUSTOM_USER%    (Custom username for the current action)
    /k:%CUSTOM_APIKEY%  (Custom apikey for the current action)
    /a:%ACTION%         (ping, playlists, localplay, download, list, configure, logout, showconfig)
    /l:%LIMIT%          (integer)
    /o:%OBJECT_ID%      (string)
    /t:%OBJECT_TYPE%    (song, playlist)
    /p:%PATH%           (folder for downloads)
    /f:%FORMAT%         (raw, mp3, ogg, flac)
    /usb                (split files into numeric 0-9 folders for car USBs)
    /c:%COMMAND%        (localplay command)
    (next, prev, stop, play, pause, add, volume_up,
        volume_down, volume_mute, delete_all, skip, status)

Here is a short code sample for python using version 6.x.x+ to scrobble a track to your server

.. code-block:: python3

import ampache
import sys
import time

# Open Ampache library
ampache_connection = ampache.API()

# load up previous config
if not ampache_connection.get_config():
    # Set your details manually if we can't get anything
    ampache_connection.set_version('6.6.1')
    ampache_connection.set_url('https://music.server')
    ampache_connection.set_key('mysuperapikey')
    ampache_connection.set_user('myusername')

# Get a session key using the handshake
#
# * ampache_url = (string) Full Ampache URL e.g. 'https://music.com.au'
# * ampache_api = (string) encrypted apikey OR password if using password auth
# * user        = (string) username //optional
# * timestamp   = (integer) UNIXTIME() //optional
# * version     = (string) API Version //optional
ampache_session = ampache_connection.execute('handshake')

# Fail if you didn't connect
if not ampache_session:
    sys.exit(ampache_connection.AMPACHE_VERSION + ' ERROR Failed to connect to ' + ampache_connection.AMPACHE_URL)

# save your successful connection in your local config
ampache_connection.save_config()

# Scrobble a music track to your ampache server
#
# * title       = (string) song title
# * artist_name = (string) artist name
# * album_name  = (string) album name
# * mbtitle     = (string) song mbid //optional
# * mbartist    = (string) artist mbid //optional
# * mbalbum     = (string) album mbid //optional
# * stime       = (integer) UNIXTIME() //optional
# * client      = (string) //optional
ampache_connection.execute('scrobble', {'title': 'Beneath The Cold Clay',
                                        'artist_name': 'Crust',
                                        'album_name': '...and a Dirge Becomes an Anthem',
                                        'stime': int(time.time())})

LINKS

<https://github.com/ampache/python3-ampache/>_

<https://pypi.org/project/ampache/>_

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