Pandata

Pandata is a Ruby 1.9+ library for downloading a user's Pandora.com data. This data includes:

  • Playing Station *
  • Recent Activity *
  • Stations *
  • Bookmarks (artists, tracks) *
  • Likes (albums, artists, stations, tracks)
  • Followers
  • Following

Where possible, Pandora feeds are used (indicated by an * above).

Pandata can only access public Pandora profiles. This option can be changed in Pandora's settings.

Installing

Pandata is a Ruby gem. To install, execute:

gem install pandata

This also installs a command-line tool called 'pandata'.

Usage

Pandata can be used as a Ruby library or command-line tool.

To identify a user, you must supply either an email address or a webname.

A webname is what Pandora uses to identify a user and it remains constant even if the user ties a new email address to their Pandora account. To find your webname, go to 'My Profile' and you'll see your webname in the URL. For example:

pandora.com/profile/<my_webname>

As a Library

First, create a new Pandata scraper for a user:

require 'pandata'

# Scraper.get takes either an email or a webname.
# Returns an array of similar webnames if no match is found.
johns_scraper = Pandata::Scraper.get('[email protected]')

Next, start scraping!

# Get only liked tracks
likes = johns_scraper.likes(:tracks)

# Get all bookmarks (artists and tracks)
bookmarks = johns_scraper.bookmarks

# Get all stations
stations = johns_scraper.stations

# Get all followers
followers = johns_scraper.followers

For more information, see the documentation for Pandata::Scraper.

As a Command-Line Tool

All output is sorted alphabetically, duplicates are removed and tracks are grouped under their owning artist.

pandata <email|webname> [options]

Options:

For an up-to-date list, check out:

pandata --help

Examples:

pandata [email protected] --liked_tracks

# Get liked tracks, artists and bookmarked tracks + output as JSON.
pandata my_webname -lLb --json

# Get all data and output to a file.
pandata my_webname --all -o my_pandora_data.txt