Farid Zakaria

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For those looking for a replacement


This post comes from my original WordPress blog, written between 2009 and 2018. It is kept here verbatim as an archive — the formatting did not always survive the move, and I no longer agree with all of it.

Older work, still valid

A lot of people have been sending me e-mails due to the current state of MetaHypem. If you're looking to find alterative ways to download the music I can recommend the following.

  1. Just follow the blog link for each song. The blogs let you download the music.
  2. I've written previously a Chrome Extension that injects a download button into the web page.e web page.

    Don't forget you need to right-click and select Save-As however...

  3. I wrote an example Python script outlining how to download songs that you can use or help build other tools with.

6 archived comments

Alex 2013-02-06

Hello! Really love your work. I use the hypem python script to download the popular page every couple days.. Couple questions.

Any chance you can add the ability to use the ?sortby=fav anchor so that user could scrape by tags?

And possibly a way to define the download location?

Sorry, I am sure there are easy additions. I just dont know much about python at all.

If not no worries! Keep up the good work. I would like to help with MetaHypem if you need any testers or anything!

Farid Zakaria 2013-02-06

Hey Alex, should be easy to do. I’m, gonna keep that script in its simplicity (so other can learn) but maybe I’ll write up a more robust one for things such as that!

Alex 2013-02-06

Awesome!

Let me know if you do. Ill keep checking back though.

Mitchell 2013-02-06

last time i checked the Google extension didn’t work, but then again i didn’t know you updated it :D its working fine thanks for everything you do!

Farid Zakaria 2013-02-07

Good to hear! I know the button is fucked but I haven’t sat down to learn CSS properly yet ;)

Mitchell 2013-02-14

buttons… those are luxries