Installation

You can get it from python package index:

pip install pitchfork

You can also clone the repository, but note that pitchfork depends on beautifulsoup4 for HTML parsing so you first have to install beautifulsoup4 yourself !!!

git clone https://github.com/michalczaplinski/pitchfork.git

Usage

>> import pitchfork

>> p = pitchfork.search('kanye west', 'my beautiful') # the title is autocompleted
>> p.album() # the full album title
u'My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy'

>> p.label()
u'Def Jam / Roc-A-Fella'

>> p.editorial()[:100] # get the first 100 characters of the review.
u"Kanye West's 35-minute super-video,\xa0Runaway, peaks with a parade. Fireworks flash while red hoods ma"

# the link to the album cover image
>> p.cover()
'http://cdn4.pitchfork.com/albums/15935/homepage_large.831179e9.jpg'

>> p.score()
10.0
# pretty overrated IMHO!

Tests

You can run the basic tests located in the tests directory with:

$ cd pitchfork
$ python3 -m unittest discover

License

MIT

Contributions

If you want to add some new feature, suggest improvement or whatnot you’re welcome to message me or send a pull request!