This guide helps you extract a developer token dynamically from Apple Music's public site (https://beta.music.apple.com) and use it to access metadata for songs or albums via Apple’s internal amp-api
.
The unofficial method of scraping tokens from the Apple Music website is not sanctioned by Apple and is subject to break without notice if the website's structure is updated. For production applications, the official developer token method is strongly recommended due to its stability and reliability.
The process can be broken down into two main steps:
- Find the Core JavaScript File: The initial step is to fetch the HTML of the Apple Music beta website (
https://beta.music.apple.com
). Within this HTML, we look for a reference to a specific JavaScript file, typically named in a pattern likeindex-legacy-[hash].js
. This file contains the necessary logic and, more importantly, the token.