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Apple Music Scraper

A powerful unofficial scraper for extracting structured metadata from Apple Music web pages using web-scraping techniques and reverse-engineered serialized-server-data.
This tool is for educational purposes only and does not use any official Apple API.

  • Functionalities
    • Search for artists, songs, albums, playlists, and videos
    • Extract song metadata and preview URLs
    • Fetch album details including tracks, artist info, similar albums, and videos
    • Scrape playlist and shared room song URLs
    • Retrieve video metadata and direct video links
    • Fetch full artist information including top songs, albums, biography, and more

Setup Instructions

  1. Clone or download the project
  2. Install dependencies: 
    pip install -r requirements.txt
  3. Import and use the scraper in your Python script: 
    result = search('night tapes')
artists = result['artists']

artist_url = artists[0]['url']
artist = artist_scrape(artist_url)

latest_night_tapes_song_url = artist['latest']

song = album_scrape(latest_night_tapes_song_url)
song_name = song['title']
song_cover = song['image']

print(f"\nLatest Night Tapes Song: {song_name}\nCover Art: {song_cover}\n")

Detailed Explanation

Each scraping function processes the serialized-server-data embedded in Apple Music’s webpage structure.
The scraper extracts metadata such as:

  • Titles, URLs, artwork
  • Track lists
  • Preview links
  • Album/artist relationships
  • Related videos or albums
    All results are returned as structured JSON objects for easy access in your applications.

Output

The scraper returns JSON structures like:

{
  "title": "Example Song",
  "artist": "Example Artist",
  "image": "https://example-image.jpg",
  "preview": "https://example-preview.m4a",
  "related": [...],
  "songs": [...]
}

You can log these results, display them in an interface, or process them however you like.

Author

Disclaimers

  • This project is not affiliated with Apple Inc.
  • It uses web scraping and may break if Apple changes its internal web structure.
  • For educational and personal use only. Redistribution of scraped content may violate Apple Music’s Terms of Service.