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Show HN: an unofficial API for Google Music
- necubi 15y agoOn similar lines, I wrote an unofficial API for Amazon's CloudPlayer: https://github.com/mwylde/cloud_player https://github.com/mwylde/cloud_player.
- hjaltij 15y agoMight be cool to write a DAAP client that uses this so you get your Google Music inside of iTunes as a shared library. If I wasn't so loaded with stuff right now I might start a project. Oh, heck maybe I'll do it anyway.
- simon_weber 15y agoBest idea I've heard all day. Let me know if you end up doing this, I'd love to help out.
- dpogue 15y agoI've started this: https://github.com/dpogue/gmusic-daap https://github.com/dpogue/gmusic-daap Unfortunately the DAAP library I started with doesn't support some of the options that iTunes looks for. It works with Rhythmbox and Banshee on Linux, and someone told me that it worked with an Android DAAP client. Unlike the API posted here, which emulates requests from the web interface, mine is based on the internal API used by Google's Android client.
- hjaltij 15y agoOh nice. How far is it and did you stop because of this? Should I rather be looking into contributing to your project?
- dpogue 15y agoIt's far enough along that it can list the whole library, and a client like Rhythmbox can request and successfully play a song. I stopped mostly from time constraints, but I'm hoping to have time to continue working on it. Things like seeking in tracks and playlists would be nice to have.
- pyre 15y agoPersonally, I don't like the 'gmapi' name since 'gm' could be Google Music or Google Maps, though this is obvious a bit nit-picky.
- simon_weber 15y agoThat's a good point, actually; I hadn't thought of that. Maybe "gmusicapi" would be a better choice? Anyone else got an opinion?
- pyre 15y agogmuapi / GMuAPI?