Pitchfork Plugin for Beets

Plugin for Beets that adds ratings from Pitchfork.

Installation

pip install beets-pitchfork

To install bleeding edge instead, use:

pip install git+git://github.com/fortes/beets-pitchfork.git@master

Configuration

Make sure to add pitchfork to your plugins setting in config.yaml. In the unlikely event you don't have any other plugins, just add a new line like:

plugins: pitchfork

If you'd like to automatically fetch reviews on import, add the following (default is False):

pitchfork:
  auto: true

Use

Fetch album ratings via:

beet pitchfork [options] [QUERY...]

• -f/--force: Force updating even if review already exists

Use pitchfork_score in your queries. You can find this year's highly rated albums in your library like so:

beet ls -a pitchfork_score:8..10 year:2018

The following fields are available via this plugin:

• pitchfork_bnm: Whether the album was designated Best New Music
• pitchfork_description: Review summary
• pitchfork_score: Numeric score
• pitchfork_url: Link to the actual review

Changelog

• 0.0.6: Don't crash on server errors
• 0.0.5: Upload to pypi as beets-pitchfork
• 0.0.4: Enable auto-fetching review on import
• 0.0.3: Add pitchfork_bnm, move back to pitchfork library
• 0.0.2: Use pitchfork_api dependency
• 0.0.1: First release

Possible future work

• Allow manual specification for artist / album query in order to alleviate failures
• Consider some method of re-trying search if no result found
• Use pre-scraped database to avoid spamming Pitchfork servers

License

MIT