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Even so, how do you get the 120M previews?


Apple has a public API with some rate limiting that returns a link to the preview audio file, see:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/lookup?id=1023678453 (https://www.chrisjmendez.com/2017/06/19/working-with-itunes-...)

So probably all that is required is a couple threads downloading and a proxy service with a large pool of IP addresses randomly rotating on every request. Maybe OP also found an undocumented API endpoint somewhere that was not rate limited.


... without getting banned?




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