Gaana vs Radio Browser

GaanaAPI is an unofficial, community-built Flask wrapper that scrapes song metadata — title, artist, album, duration, release date, cover art, and a playable m3u8 stream link, with optional lyrics — from a given Gaana song URL. It isn't a hosted service: there's no official public endpoint, so using it means self-deploying the Python app on your own VPS or Heroku instance, and the author himself warns that non-Indian server locations may fail to fetch some songs. The underlying code hasn't been updated since 2020 and an open GitHub issue reports Gaana's own CDN denying stream access, so treat it as a fragile, unofficial dependency rather than a stable API.

Radio Browser is a free, keyless, community-maintained directory of internet radio stations — over 60,000 of them — with search, tagging by genre/country/language, click-tracking, and ready-to-play M3U playlists for any station. It's fully open source, mirrored across several independently-run servers behind a round-robin DNS entry point, and its maintainers explicitly ask API consumers to pick a random mirror rather than hammer one instance. Responses are available as JSON or XML, with a dedicated M3U format for playlist endpoints.