Retrieves Spotify album image

spotify-cover.py

import urllib2
import urllib
import json

music_type = raw_input("Track or Album? [t/a] ")

if music_type.startswith('t'):
    music_type = 0
elif music_type.startswith('a'):
    music_type = 1

uri = raw_input('Paste Spotify URI: ')

if uri.startswith('spotify'):
    uri = uri.split(':')[2]

url = "https://api.spotify.com/v1/"

if music_type == 0:
    url += "tracks/"
elif music_type == 1:
    url += "albums/"

response = json.load(urllib2.urlopen(url + uri))

if music_type == 0:
    img =  response["album"]["images"][0]["url"]
elif music_type == 1:
    img =  response["images"][0]["url"]

print img
urllib.urlretrieve(img, "image.jpg")