chart_songs.py

#Code by: Mazikeen El Bezra, ID: 10832578,  documentation used: https://developer.musixmatch.com/documentation, https://requests.readthedocs.io/en/master/, adapted from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFRzKmpepj4&t=1108s
''' function to return a specific number of the current top songs in a specific country'''
def my_func():
    import requests #import request package which is used to import HTTP requests
    import json

    key= "&apikey=352a18cc5baa9cd34bd6fc0aa20c3401"
    url="https://api.musixmatch.com/ws/1.1/"

    print("Hello! Welcome to top songs chart!")
    amount = input("Please enter how many top songs would you like to view -->")
    country = input ("Please enter what country's charts would you like to view (i.e: us for america, uk for united kingdom, eg for egypt etc.-->")
    #creates a URL request using the user's inputs to call the API method
    charturl= url+ "chart.tracks.get"+ "?format=json&callback=callback" + "page=1&page_size=" + amount + "&country=" + country + key
    request = requests.get(charturl) #sends a GET request to the specified url to get data from server
    data = request.json() #parse it as a JSON object
    #for loop used to access the 'track list' object and return two object values, the song name and artist name
    for i in data['message']['body']['track_list']:
        print("Song title: "+i['track']['track_name']+" ->Artist: "+i['track']['artist_name'])