pitchfork-api 0.0.4

Installation

You can get it from python package index:

pip install pitchfork-api

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/tejassharma96/pitchfork_api

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

# to check what methods are available, you can use 'methods()'
>> p.methods()
score()
abstract()
editorial()
full_text()
cover()
artist()
album()
label()
year()

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!