Band Scraper

Summary

Band Scraper is a React application that allows users to browse through all music on the music distribution platform, Bandcamp that is completely legally available for free. Some artists on Bandcamp give fans the option to choose their own price for their music and provide no minimum, and Bandcamp does not provide users with a way to filter by price to find this feee music. Band Scraper is a solution to this problem.

Deployed App

Installation

1. cd into the src directory
2. run npm install

Starting the server

1. cd into the src directory
2. run npm start
3. the application will be running at localhost:3000

Updating the music data (This will take a long time due to Bandcamp's lack of API and request rate limiting)

1. run npm run scrape
2. Two directories, data and logs will be created in the src directory with JSON files containing the music data