spotify_album_cover_downloader.py

import os
import sys
import spotipy
import requests
import webbrowser

def clean_filename(filename):
    replacer_map = {"#": "no.", "%": "percent", "&": "and", "{": "(", "}": ")", "\\": "-", "<": "(", ">": ")", "*": "X", "?": "", "!": "", "$": "", " ": "_", "/": "-", "'": "", '"': "", ":": "_-", "@": "at", "+": "plus", "|": "-", "=": "equals", "`": "",}
    for symbol in replacer_map.keys():
        filename = filename.replace(symbol, replacer_map[symbol])
    return filename

sp = spotipy.Spotify(client_credentials_manager = spotipy.oauth2.SpotifyClientCredentials())
uri = str(sys.argv[1]).split("/")[-1]
album = sp.album(uri)
album_title = album["name"]
cover_url = album["images"][0]["url"]
webbrowser.get("/usr/bin/firefox").open(cover_url)

album_filename = clean_filename(album_title)
full_save_path = os.path.join("/home/tomo/Downloads/cover_art/", uri + "_" + album_filename + ".jpg")
if not os.path.isfile(full_save_path):
    response = requests.get(cover_url)
    with open(full_save_path, "wb") as f:
        f.write(response.content)