Creates PDFs from musescore's svgs/pngs from url
It's a python script. Finds a few keywords and extracts the links, then using the libraries, it creates svg/png files and creates a pdf out of it.
These instructions are targeted to music people who don't know coding but want those sweet sheets. Mainly for windows users, but other OS would use similar steps.
Download the project
Open the explorer, you should find it in Downloads
Can be somewhere else. Type Ctrl+J in your browser, it's your download page, from here, try to find where the archive is located.
You can also drag and drop or copy paste from within the archive into another directory. Just be sure to know where to find it.
You need to go inside the directory.
Open the powershell window. Type python inside.
Normally, the appstore should pop up:
If it doesn't appear, go on the microsoft store yourself and type python3. Select the version 3.7 or 3.8, it doesn't matter for this script. If you do not have the microsoft store, or you are running an older version of windows, you need to install python by yourself (don't worry, it's a few clicks away: download page)
Once it's installed, go back to the powershell and type pip.
If you see some text, it means it worked. If it doesn't work, or you see red text, close the window and open it again like we did previously. Try to type pip again. If it doens't work, either python is not installed (let it finish!), or it is not in the path.
Use your favourite search engine to find how to add python in the Path for windows.
You should have some downloading going on, let it finish, it should be quick. Now everything is ready! Go to musescore.com and get the link as follows
Type in your link instead of the example one:
Your file should be in the directory!
You can specify in which directory you want your output file(s) after the link. You can also get the midi file (not always available) by typing something after the directory ( put a dot for the directory if you don't want to type one specifically but want the midi)
Check below for examples.
To run this program you will need:
pip install svglib fpdf pypdf2
or with conda:
conda install -c conda-forge svglib pypdf2
sadly fpdf doesn't have a reliable release, but "-c viascience fpdf" looks ok
Usage:
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go on musescore.com and find the sheet you want
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Copy the url, this is the inputUrl
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Use the following command with your inputUrl
inputUrl is the url from musescore destinationDirectory is where the sheet will be written MidiTrueFalse is 1 if the midi file should be downloaded, 0 or empty otherwise example:
python ./musescore.py https://musescore.com/user/4609986/scores/1749181
will put the sheet in the current directory
python ./musescore.py https://musescore.com/user/4609986/scores/1749181 chopin
will put the sheet in the chopin directory. Will be created if does not exist.
python ./musescore.py https://musescore.com/user/4609986/scores/1749181 chopin 1
will put the sheet and midi file in the chopin directory, will be created if does not exist. You can use "." (dot) if you want to use the current directory