support subscribing to public playlists

[simon-weber]

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This would straightforward to do with the webclient, but I'd like to find a mobileclient endpoint for this if possible.

[lociii]

Is there another way to get public playlist metadata other than subscribing, fetching the whole list and searching it for the playlist? If not that feature would be awesome.

[simon-weber]

@lociii Yup! You just need a sharetoken to retrieve a public playlist: http://unofficial-google-music-api.readthedocs.org/en/develop/reference/mobileclient.html#gmusicapi.clients.Mobileclient.get_shared_playlist_contents.

[lociii]

That'll give me only the track list but not the meta data like playlist name or author.

[simon-weber]

Oh, sorry, I totally misunderstood!

There must be a way, but I don't think I have an endpoint for it right now. I thought that I might actually be throwing that data away here, but it appears that I don't get that information (here's the schema).

Can you open a separate issue to track this? You definitely shouldn't have to subscribe to a playlist to get its metadata.

[simon-weber]

(thanks! now tracking the above in #205)