Mopidy-Bandcamp 1.1.1

Backend for listening to bandcamp

Mopidy extension for playing music from Bandcamp.

This backend this allows searching bandcamp and playing the free 128kbps MP3 streams.

Initial support has been added for browsing and playing your bandcamp collection. Authentication is a hassle, and described below. Expect things to be wonky, and please create an issue when you encounter things that don’t work. Also this is slow because it requires scraping the bandcamp website instead of using an API.

Installation

Install by running:

sudo python3 -m pip install Mopidy-Bandcamp

Authentication

Authentication is done by grabbing your identity token from the cookies of the bandcamp website. Point your browser at https://bandcamp.com, log in if you aren’t already, and then open up your browser’s developer tools (usually by pressing Ctrl-Shift-I or F12). Reload the page and you should be able to go to the “Network” tab of developer tools and click on the top entry. You should be able to click on a “Headers” subtab and see the Request and Response headers. Find the “Cookie” request header and look for “identity”.

You should see something similar to:

identity=7%09xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx%3D%09%7B%22ex%22%3Ax%2C%22id%22%3Axxxxxxxxxx%7D;

This is what we need. Copy the data (leave out the semi-colon) and add it to your Mopidy config file like:

[bandcamp]
identity = 7%09xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx%3D%09%7B%22ex%22%3Ax%2C%22id%22%3Axxxxxxxxxx%7D

Usage

Albums and tracks can be searched for or browsed. Additionaly, you can force Mopidy-Bandcamp to scrape a bandcamp URL for you by just prepending the url with “bandcamp:” and adding it to Mopidy. For example, using mpc on the command line:

$ mpc add "bandcamp:https://louiezong.bandcamp.com/album/jazz"

Would add the bandcamp album to the queue.

Note: Adding an artist by clicking on the artist in a search result or by manually scraping an artist’s bandcamp page can take a long time depending on the artist. This is because Mopidy-Bandcamp tries to load the entirety of the artist’s discography.

Configuration

example:

[bandcamp]
discover-tags = French House, Brit Pop, Tokyo, New Wave, Industrial

• identity - Identity token from your bandcamp cookies to authenticate with Bandcamp.

• collection_items - Number of items (per page) to fetch from your collection (if authenticated). Default: 50

• discover_tags - List of tags to discover. You’ll really want to change this to any tags that interest you.

• discover_genres - List of bandcamp’s genres to discover. You’ll only want to edit this to remove unwanted genres.

• discover_pages - Number of pages to load in the browse discover sections. Default: 1

• image_sizes - a list of ids for image sizes to return to mopidy for album art. Default: 10, 5, 2 (1200x1200, 700x700, 350x350)

Bandcamp image size ids:

ID	Width	Height	Aspect
1	Original (usually big)
10	1200	1200	Square
20	1024	1024	Square
5	700	700	Square
13	380	380	Square
14	368	368	Square
2	350	350	Square
4	300	300	Square
9	210	210	Square
44	200	200	Square
11	172	172	Square
7	150	150	Square
50	140	140	Square
12	138	138	Square
15	135	135	Square
8	124	124	Square
21	120	120	Square
3	100	100	Square
42	50	50	Square
22	25	25	Square
26	800	600	4:3
36	400	300	4:3
32	380	285	4:3
33	368	276	4:3
37	168	126	4:3
38	144	108	4:3
29	100	75	4:3
28	768	432	16:9
27	715	402	16:9

Project resources

• Source code

• Issue tracker