Support for 'I'm feeling lucky radio'

[mario-tux]

Could you investigate about this new interesting way to create a station?

[simon-weber]

Oh, I never responded to this! Sorry! =(

I had kind of expected this to be done clientside, but the webclient hits the server to get it. This should be an easy feature to add once I get some time to check out a recent android build.

[elfez]

Do you have any pointers on how you go about digging out the endpoint? I'd like to see this in the squeezebox plugin, and if I can help I'd be happy to do so.

[simon-weber]

The easiest way to get started is to point an Android device at a mitm proxy like Fiddler or Charles. Then, just use the feature you're looking to reverse and look for relevant calls.

[elfez]

So this is the data that seems to sent, if I understand things correctly:

{
 "kind": "sj#radioFeed",
 "data": {
  "stations": [
   {
    "kind": "sj#radioStation",
    "id": "IFL",
    "name": "IFL",
    "seed": {
     "kind": "sj#radioSeed",
     "seedType": "6"
    },
    "tracks": [
    ...

I'll try and figure out where that should go and see if I can get a valid playlist back.

[hechtus]

So, the radio station ID is simply "IFL" (I'm feeling lucky). If you are using this station ID for looking up the tracks it should work. Great!

[elfez]

Yup, that worked (wasn't sure if the seedType would have an effect)! I guess this just needs documenting and then this case can be closed.

[simon-weber]

Nice work! I think this is the right docstring to add this to: https://github.com/simon-weber/Unofficial-Google-Music-API/blob/6d79fd11a802ef41ddd34103b971b4280196987f/gmusicapi/clients/mobileclient.py#L604.

[hechtus]

I agree. A note about using the "IFL" station ID is sufficient.

[elfez]

It looks correct, but I'm still wrapping my head around the whole thing, so I'll defer to hecthus to comment on if that is the correct API call.

[jwdempsey]

I just tried this out and it works perfectly:

Mobileclient.get_station_tracks('IFL', num_tracks=25)

[simon-weber]

Nice. Whenever I/someone gets to this, let's remember to also add a quick test so we can catch id changes.