Python: Amazon API - fetch Album Art

Hi there,
I'm a total noob in Python (and programming generally) and I want to write a little script that fetches album-art from Amazon
I looked into the Boto documentation but I didn't found anything about images.
I'm sorry for being ignorant but I don't want to read the whole Amazon API documentation.
Could someone give me a starting point or a how-to (didn't find one)?
Or does someone know a different/easier API to fetch cover-art?

brisbin33 wrote a little bash script to get album art from albumart.org. You might be able to use that as a starting point. You can get it here.
Good luck!
Scott

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Hello,
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a peak for Apple ...
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I've read it, and I'm not a legal person, so if you want to be sure you need to contact MS support or a legal expert, but my take is this:
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from PIL import ImageTk, Image
from threading import Thread
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PATTERN = "Folder.*"
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Last edited by doggone (Yesterday 13:48:34)

Since that simple script of r6 was so helpful for me, I thought it only fair for me to provide my tweak to it.
Mods:
* Fetched from albumart.org
* Uses directory path for search information
* downloads larger image instead of thumbnail
* works with find -exec {} to auto populate all directories
Here is a link to my simple write up
I just run the following in the root of my music directory
find . -type d -exec ./get_coverart {} \;
And a copy of the script
#!/bin/bash -e
# get_coverart.sh
# This simple script will fetch the cover art for the album information provided on the command line.
# It will then download that cover image, and place it into the child directory.
# The term "album information" is really the relative path of the final directory.
# get_coverart <relative-path>
# get_coverart Tonic/Lemon Parade
# get_coverart Tonic/Lemon\ Parade
# get_coverart Tonic/Lemon_Parade
# To auto-populate all directories in the current directory, run the following command
# find . -type d -exec ./get_coverart "{}" \;
dpath="$1"
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# Skip already processed ones
if [ -f "$dpath/cover.jpg" ]
then
echo "$dpath/cover.jpg already exists"
exit
fi
echo ""
echo "Searching for: [$1]"
url="http://www.albumart.org/index.php?srchkey=$encoded&itempage=1&newsearch=1&searchindex=Music"
echo "Searching ... [$url]"
coverurl=`wget -qO - $url | xmllint --html --xpath 'string(//a[@title="View larger image" and starts-with(@href, "http://ecx.images-amazon")]/@href)' - 2>/dev/null`
echo "Cover URL: [$coverurl]"
wget "$coverurl" -O "$dpath/cover.jpg"
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*Rebuild artwork cache*
Sometimes the artwork cache becomes corrupt and fails to show correct artwork, even when this is properly set up in iTunes. To rebuild the artwork cache, connect your iPod to iTunes. Locate the iPod in the Sources pane on the left-hand side, then select the Music tab. Remove the tick from *Display album artwork on your iPod*, sync the iPod, reselect the option & sync again.
*Why is artwork not showing on my iPod when it's there in iTunes?*
iTunes will display a cover in many of it's views provided at least one track from the album has embedded artwork. The iPod appears to load only the artwork from track one to create the cover flow and album views which means that it can sometimes fail to display art for albums even when you can see the art in iTunes. Further, when tracks are played on the iPod, artwork is displayed if and only if it exisits in the currently playing track, so track one may show art while track two does not.
*How to find tracks without artwork*
To find all the tracks without artwork so that you can update them you can try http://www.stum.de/itunes-find-tracks-without-artwork/ for Windows or http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/scripts13.php for Macs. Use Google, Amazon, Discogs etc. to locate relevant jpeg images. Ideally these should be square, 320x320 pixels or above and borderless to give the best results in the various menus. If you have artwork for some tracks of an album, but not others, select a track with artwork, right-click (Option-Click for Macs) on the art & click copy, then select all the tracks of the abum, use CTRL-I or Option-I to *Get Info* and then paste the image into the artwork box.
I say 320x320 because I believe (from using TouchCopy) that it's the size used in the iPod cache so if you're going to crop or resize you might as well work to that size.
tt2

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My understanding it iTunes handles artwork several ways. First, iTunes keeps a copy of all artwork in its artwork folder. Second, artwork can optionally be embedded in a media file. You can, for example, have an album where no artwork is actually in the files but all use a reference copy in the artwork folder. Even if a file has artwork embedded it may still use the version in the artwork folder.
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You could try this for a file:
Script for embedding artwork - http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/ss.php?sp=embedart
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