Pyton script to create a xspf playlist of the songs from a Spotify album and write it to a specified file when given the link to the Spotify album.

DumpPlaylistFromAlbumURL.py

#!/usr/bin/python3
#-*- coding: utf-8 -*-

"""
   Dumps an xspf (xml schema) playlist for all of the songs in a spotify album
   when given the spotify album's link (URL: from menu 
   "share" -> "Copy album link").
"""
import sys
import requests
import re
import json
from xml.sax.saxutils import escape
import os

def regex(page, reg):
    data = re.search(reg, page.text)
    if data is not None:
        return data.group(1)
    else:
        return ""

def getJson(page):
    return regex(page, 'Spotify.Entity = ([^;]+)')

def dumpAlbum(outfile, url):
    page = requests.Session().get(url)

    jStr = getJson(page)
    j = json.loads(jStr)

    aTitle = escape(j["name"])

    outfile.write("""<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<playlist version="1" xmlns="http://xspf.org/ns/0/">
  <trackList>\n""")

    trackString = """    <track>
      <location>{}</location>
      <title>{}</title>
      <creator>{}</creator>
      <trackNum>{}</trackNum>
      <duration>{!s}</duration>
      <album>{}</album>
    </track>\n"""
    
    for t in j["tracks"]["items"]:
        outfile.write(trackString.format(
            t["uri"], escape(t["name"]), escape(t["artists"][0]["name"]),
            t["track_number"], t["duration_ms"], aTitle))

    outfile.write("""  </trackList>
</playlist>\n
""")
    return

if len(sys.argv) != 3 or '--help' in sys.argv or '-h' in sys.argv:
    print('Usage:')
    print('   %s <url> <outfile>' % os.path.basename(sys.argv[0]))
    print(__doc__)
    raise SystemExit

with open(sys.argv[2], 'w') as outfile:
    url = sys.argv[1]
    dumpAlbum(outfile, url)