agg23/apple-py-music

apple-py-music is a Python tool that lets you look up information about songs on Apple Music. Instead of manually browsing the Apple Music app or website, you can write a few lines of code to pull details about a track, like its title, artist, album, release date, duration, genre, album artwork, and even a short audio preview, directly into your own program. At a high level, it works as a bridge between your Python code and Apple's official music database. You authenticate using credentials from an Apple developer account (a team ID, a key ID, and a private key), and then you can call simple functions to search for songs. The example in the README shows someone looking up a track using its ISRC, which is a unique international code that identifies a specific recording. You pass in that code, and the tool returns a structured bundle of data about the matching song on Apple Music, everything from the album name to a URL where you can hear a snippet. This would be useful for anyone building an app or service that involves music data. For example, if you run a playlist-sharing startup and want to match songs from Spotify to their Apple Music equivalents, or if you are building a music analytics dashboard and need to pull metadata like genres and release dates, this tool handles the communication with Apple's servers so you don't have to figure out Apple's API on your own. The project is unofficial and not endorsed by Apple, which is worth noting. Apple's API documentation can change frequently, so the tool may occasionally break when Apple updates things on their end. The README only shows the song lookup feature, so it doesn't go into detail about whether other capabilities like searching by artist or browsing albums are available.