Todotango Tango Artist & Composer Discography Scraper

Scrape structured creator profiles and tango work records from todotango.com — the definitive Argentine tango encyclopedia. Extract biographies, birth/death dates, roles, photos, full lyrics, composer/lyricist attribution, and sheet-music references for 10 000+ tango creators across five roles.

What This Actor Does

The actor crawls Todotango.com's complete creator index and extracts two types of records into a single dataset:

Creator profile records — one record per tango artist:

Creator ID, slug, name, and role (músico, letrista, cantor, cancionista, compositor)
Birth/death dates and birth place
Photo URL
Link to the creator's biography page (Spanish)
Count of linked lyrics and sheet-music items
Notable works (JSON array of tango titles)
Discography entries

Tango work records — one record per linked tango piece:

Title, genre (tango/vals/milonga/candombe), year
Composer(s) and lyricist(s)
Full lyrics text in Spanish
Sheet-music image URL

Both record types share the same dataset schema. The source_url field identifies the page origin; creator fields are null on tango records and tango fields are null on creator records.

Use Cases

Copyright & public-domain research — YouTube creators and music-licensing firms can verify tango composer attribution and estimate public-domain status based on death dates
SADAIC royalty research — The Argentine copyright society (SADAIC) does not publish their tango database; this scraper provides a structured alternative
Ethnomusicology — UBA, Conservatorio Alberto Ginastera, and similar programs use Todotango for composer biography data
Tango event curation — Buenos Aires milonga organizers building composer-themed event programs
Digital reissue metadata — Tango-revival labels wanting structured metadata for catalog enrichment

Input Parameters

Field	Type	Description
`maxItems`	integer	Maximum number of records to return (default: 5)

Output Schema

Field	Type	Description
`creator_id`	integer	Numeric creator ID from Todotango
`creator_slug`	string	URL slug for the creator
`creator_name`	string	Full display name
`creator_role`	string	Role description (e.g. "Pianista, compositor y letrista")
`birth_date`	string	Birth date (Spanish locale format)
`death_date`	string	Death date (Spanish locale format)
`birth_place`	string	City and country of birth
`biography_es`	string	URL to the Spanish biography page
`photo_url`	string	Creator photo URL
`notable_works`	string	JSON array of linked tango titles
`discography`	string	JSON array of discography entries
`lyrics_count`	integer	Number of linked lyrics entries
`sheet_music_count`	integer	Number of linked sheet-music entries
`tango_title`	string	Tango piece title (tango records only)
`tango_year`	integer	Year of composition
`tango_genre`	string	Genre: tango, vals, milonga, candombe
`tango_composer`	string	Composer name(s)
`tango_lyricist`	string	Lyricist name(s)
`tango_lyrics_es`	string	Full lyrics in Spanish
`tango_sheet_music_pdf_url`	string	Sheet-music image URL
`source_url`	string	Source page URL

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