maheshkkumar/pydora

Python Client for Pandora

Pandora API Client

This code is licensed under the MIT license.

This is a reasonably complete implementation of the Pandora API. It does not implement any of the undocumented features and does not implement most of the account management features as they were deemed not terribly useful.

I don't provide any keys or passwords for Pandora in this repo, you'll have to go get those for yourself. Make something awesome with this library, don't abuse Pandora, that's not cool.

Installing

Installing is as simple as using pip and running the built-in configuration command to create a ~/.pydora.cfg file. If you already have a PianoBar config file pydora will automatically use that.

$ pip install pydora
$ pydora-configure

Simple Player

Included is pydora, a simple Pandora stream player that runs at the command line. It requires that mpg123 be installed with HTTP support as well as a settings file (example below) located in ~/.pydora.cfg. Alternatively an environment variable PYDORA_CFG can point to the path of the config file.

The player only supports basic functionality for now. It will display a station list, allow listening to any station, basic feeback and bookmarking are also supported. The player starts an mpg123 process in remote control mode and feeds commands to it. It does not download any music but rather streams them directly from Pandora.

When playing the following keys work (press enter afterwards):

• n - next song
• p - pause or resume song
• s - station list (stops song)
• d - thumbs down track
• u - thumbs up track
• b - bookmark song
• a - bookmark artist
• S - sleep song
• Q - quit program
• ? - display help

sample config:

[api]
api_host = hostname
encryption_key = key
decryption_key = key
username = partner username
password = partner password
device = key
default_audio_quality = mediumQuality

[user]
username = your username
password = your password

default_audio_quality

Default audio quality to request from the API; can be one of lowQuality, mediumQuality (default), or highQuality. If the preferred audio quality is not available for the device specified, then the next-highest bitrate stream that Pandora supports for the chosen device will be used.

Pandora API Spec and Partner Keys

The built-in pydora-configure script can be run to create a configuration file if you don't already have one. This will download the keys from the link below and pick a suitable one. If you're interested in the underlying API or need to download the keys yourself you can find them at the link below.

• API Spec
• Partner Keys