Thank you! Very nice tip.

Il giorno domenica 9 aprile 2017 11:25:09 UTC+2, Adrian Sampson ha scritto:
>
> A plugin is a good idea too, but you can also import beets as a library. 
> This tiny example might get you started: 
>
> import beets.library
> import os
> libpath = os.path.expanduser('~/.config/beets/library.db')
> lib = beets.library.Library(libpath)
> for item in lib.items('artist:muse'):
>     print(item.title)
>
> No sweat!
>
> Adrian
>
> On Apr 9, 2017, 4:32 AM +0800, Steve Johnson <[email protected] 
> <javascript:>>, wrote:
>
> 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!
>
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