stream - Record streaming and saving internet radio in python

Question

I am looking for a python snippet to read an internet radio stream(.asx, .pls etc) and save it to a file.

The final project is cron'ed script that will record an hour or two of internet radio and then transfer it to my phone for playback during my commute. (3g is kind of spotty along my commute)

any snippits or pointers are welcome.

Answer 1

The following has worked for me using the requests library to handle the http request.

import requests

stream_url = 'http://your-stream-source.com/stream'

r = requests.get(stream_url, stream=True)

with open('stream.mp3', 'wb') as f:
    try:
        for block in r.iter_content(1024):
            f.write(block)
    except KeyboardInterrupt:
        pass

That will save a stream to the stream.mp3 file until you interrupt it with ctrl+C.