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

Performance Notes

• Default run scrapes maxItems=5 records for quick sampling
• Full run across all 10 000+ creators: set maxItems to a large value or leave empty for unlimited
• Concurrency is capped at 5 requests to respect the site's rate limit