Unofficial Brain.fm Python Client (3.5+)

The Connection class exposes four operations: login, list_stations, get_token and make_stream_url. Please open an issue if there's another operation you need.

This client requires Python 3.5+.

CLI Quickstart

$ pip install brainfm
$ brain init
Email: [email protected]
Password: <hidden>
Repeat for confirmation: <hidden>

Add the following to your .profile, .bashrc, or equivalent:

    export BRAINFM_SID="s%3...s0xo"
    export BRAINFM_STREAM_ENDPOINT="https://..."

$ # ... commands to modify and reload profile ...
$ brain play 300

Library Quickstart

pip install brainfm

>>> import brainfm
>>> client = brainfm.Connection()
>>> client.login("[email protected]", "hunter2")
>>> client.list_stations()
[{'name': 'Cinematic Music Focus', 'id': 300,
  'string_id': 'explore.focus.cinematic'},
 {'name': 'Beach Focus', 'id': 53,
  'string_id': 'explore.focus.beach'},
 ...]
>>> token = client.get_token(53)
>>> token
'63f4b59b-93f4-45e6-b0c2-eb6b1582fb96'
>>> client.make_stream_url(token)
'https://stream.brain.fm/?tkn=63f4b59b-93f4-45e6-b0c2-eb6b1582fb96'

Now, open the stream using that token:

https://stream.brain.fm/?tkn=63f4b59b-93f4-45e6-b0c2-eb6b1582fb96

CLI

You must pass an sid with --sid or define an environment variable BRAINFM_SID. You can use brain init to generate one:

$ brain init
Email: [email protected]
Password: <hidden>
Repeat for confirmation: <hidden>

Add the following to your .profile, .bashrc, or equivalent:

    export BRAINFM_SID="s%3...s0xo"
    export BRAINFM_STREAM_ENDPOINT="https://..."

While setting BRAINFM_STREAM_ENDPOINT is not strictly necessary, the cli is faster when either the env var is defined or you provide the endpoint explicitly: brain --stream-endpoint=... ls

Usage:

$ brain ls
+Playable Stations-------------+-----------------------+-------- +
| id  | name                   | string_id             | length  |
+-----+------------------------+-----------------------+-------- +
| 32  | Quick Relax            | relax.justrelax15min  | 15 mins |
| 34  | Relaxed Focus          | explore.relaxed       | 30 mins |
| 35  | Focus                  | focus.3               | 30 mins |
| 36  | Sleep                  | sleep                 | 45 mins |
| ... | ...                    | ...                   | ...     |
| 540 | Study Focus            | explore.focus.study   | 30 mins |
| 541 | LoFi Focus             | explore.focus.lowfi   | 30 mins |
+-----+------------------------+-----------------------+-------- +

$ brain ls -a
+All Stations------------------+-----------------------+-------- +
| id  | name                   | string_id             | length  |
+-----+------------------------+-----------------------+-------- +
| 0   | Favorites              | None                  | None    |
| 32  | Quick Relax            | relax.justrelax15min  | 15 mins |
| 34  | Relaxed Focus          | explore.relaxed       | 30 mins |
| ... | ...                    | ...                   | ...     |
| 46  | Explore                | explore               | None    |
| 47  | Explore Relax          | explore.relax         | None    |
| ... | ...                    | ...                   | ...     |
| 541 | LoFi Focus             | explore.focus.lowfi   | 30 mins |
+-----+------------------------+-----------------------+-------- +

$ brain gt 60
3ff0eab0-a5f6-11e6-a5c2-f11c700a6178

$ brain play 60
# opens a browser at:
#   https://stream.brain.fm/?tkn=3ff0eab0-a5f6-11e6-a5c2-f11c700a6178

Override Endpoints

From the cli you can override the api and stream endpoints with --api-endpoint and --stream-endpoint respectively. This is useful when the service switches endpoints but this library hasn't been updated to match.

You can also provide these as env variables BRAINFM_API_ENDPOINT and BRAINFM_STREAM_ENDPOINT

User-Agent

By default the user agent is github.com/numberoverzero/brainfm followed by the project __version__. There is also a packaged browser-like user-agent:

>>> client = brainfm.Connection(...)
>>> client.user_agent = brainfm.BROWSER

Instead of filtering, maybe this will be a good metric for customer interest in an official API ❤️