The most useful thing would probably be for someone to write a plugin that accepts a query on stdin and puts JSON on stdout.
>From what I can tell, the 'canonical' way to get access to the beets library from a Python script is to implement the script as a plugin. The plugins in the beets source tree should provide enough examples to get started. On Sat, Apr 8, 2017, at 01:00 PM, Alessio Elmi wrote: > Hi, > I would like to query an existing beets library through a Python > script. Given the query (eg. "artist:muse") I want it to return a list > of beets 'items' with all the attributes with it. > However, I couldn't find any example to start with. I very ugly way > would be parsing the output of a system call and then split any > substring to populate a list of custom objects. > I suppose there is a proper way of using API to retrieve a list given > the query but I couldn't take a step in that direction. > Could you point me to some similar examples? > Thank you! > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "beets" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, > send an email to beets-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "beets" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beets-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
