Turns out above script was grabbing dates from the wrong place. E.g. for Vol. 1 | Dark Ambient Radio it would show March 12, 2008 as publish date which is obviously wrong. The actual release date on Bandcamp is July 25, 2021
I went to modify it a little bit and as a bonus it should also display public_embeddable if it differs from publish_date
Update:
Bandcamp is a clusterfuck. This was released in 2018: Dopamine Amplifier | Geass;What
Yet the publishing dates are conflicting.
publish_date matches the date shown in the community tab.
Update:
datePublished was more reliable in this case too:
- TOYBOX | Creep-P
- TOYBOX | Creep-P (archived 30rd July 2021)
- https://twitter.com/ItsCreepP/status/1423675235123924993
BTW, Metal-Archives also warns of trusting publish_date
Update
Can it get even crazier?