radios
Asynchronous Python client for the Radio Browser API
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Yes. Low install friction, active maintenance, permissive MIT license, and no known vulnerabilities. Suitable for any Python 3.11+ project needing Radio Browser API access. The main decision point is whether the Radio Browser's data coverage and API stability meet your use case—verify that separately if production-critical.AI-flagged interpretation of the facts on this page — verify before relying
Before you install
- Requires Python 3.11 or later; async/await syntax and event loop required.
- Low friction: pure Python wheel with no compiled dependencies.
- Actively maintained as of 2026-04-16 with recent release history; requires Python 3.11 or later.
License · maintenance · safety
MIT (permissive) — MIT license permits free use, modification, and distribution with minimal restrictions—suitable for both open-source and commercial projects.
last release 2024-10-25 (658 days) · last repo commit 2026-04-16 · 20 stars
0 known vulnerabilities (OSV.dev, 2026-08-14) · 93,278 downloads/mo, #13,395 on PyPI
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pip install radios
import asyncio
from radios import RadioBrowser, Order
async def main():
async with RadioBrowser(user_agent="MyApp/1.0") as radios:
stations = await radios.stations(limit=10, order=Order.CLICK_COUNT, reverse=True)
for station in stations:
print(f"{station.name} ({station.click_count})")
asyncio.run(main())- Whether the Radio Browser API has rate limits or availability guarantees that affect production use.
- Whether station metadata fields (beyond name and click_count) are documented or discoverable.
What it is and what it does
Radios is an async Python client for the Radio Browser API, a crowdsourced directory of internet radio and TV stations. It wraps the Radio Browser's REST endpoints to let you search, filter, and retrieve station metadata programmatically. The library depends on aiohttp for async HTTP, mashumaro for serialization, and several utility libraries (backoff, cachetools, yarl, orjson, pycountry, awesomeversion, aiodns) to handle retries, caching, URL parsing, and country/language code resolution.
You use it by creating a RadioBrowser context manager with a user agent, then awaiting methods like stations(), tags(), countries(), and languages() to query the database. It supports ordering and filtering by country code, language, tags, and other criteria, and can register station clicks. Originally developed for Home Assistant, it's maintained as an active open-source project with semantic versioning and a clear contribution process.
Use it for
- Build a radio player app that searches and displays stations by country, language, or popularity.
- Aggregate station metadata (tags, click counts, bitrate) for analytics or recommendation systems.
- Create a station discovery tool that filters by genre or language and tracks user interactions.
- Integrate radio station data into a smart home or media center application.
- Fetch and cache station lists for offline or low-latency access in a web or mobile backend.
Worth the install?
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Yes.
Low install friction, active maintenance, permissive MIT license, and no known vulnerabilities. Suitable for any Python 3.11+ project needing Radio Browser API access. The main decision point is whether the Radio Browser's data coverage and API stability meet your use case—verify that separately if production-critical.
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radios on PyPI
Before you install
Low friction: pure Python wheel with no compiled dependencies. Actively maintained as of 2026-04-16 with recent release history; requires Python 3.11 or later.
Requires Python 3.11 or later; async/await syntax and event loop required.
License in practice
MIT license permits free use, modification, and distribution with minimal restrictions—suitable for both open-source and commercial projects.
Quickstart
pip install radios
import asyncio
from radios import RadioBrowser, Order
async def main():
async with RadioBrowser(user_agent="MyApp/1.0") as radios:
stations = await radios.stations(limit=10, order=Order.CLICK_COUNT, reverse=True)
for station in stations:
print(f"{station.name} ({station.click_count})")
asyncio.run(main())Verify before relying
- Whether the Radio Browser API has rate limits or availability guarantees that affect production use.
- Whether station metadata fields (beyond name and click_count) are documented or discoverable.
Package facts
| License | MIT permissive |
| Python support | Supports the current Python release <4.0,>=3.11 |
| Install friction | Low. Pure-Python wheel |
| Runtime dependencies | 9 packagesaiodnsaiohttpawesomeversionbackoffcachetoolsmashumaroorjsonpycountryyarl |
| Maintenance | Actively maintained 658 days since the last release |
| Last repo commit | |
| First released | |
| Downloads | 93,278 / month, #13,395 on PyPI 30-day window, as of 2026-08-14 |
| Known vulnerabilities | None known OSV.dev, checked 2026-08-14 |
| Classifiers | Development Status :: 4 - BetaFramework :: AsyncIOIntended Audience :: DevelopersLicense :: OSI Approved :: MIT LicenseNatural Language :: EnglishProgramming Language :: Python :: 3Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11Programming Language :: Python :: 3.12Programming Language :: Python :: 3.13Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules |
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