A personal bot leveraging the Spotify API for creating Spotify playlists and managing a listening queue.

Utilities:

• Harvest public radio episodes and create Spotify playlists. See this blog post for an overview.
• Add the NPR hourly news update to your listening queue. This can be scheduled to run throughout the day.

More details follow for anyone attempting to reuse this code.

This project using poetry to manage dependencies. Run poetry install to install dependencies.

If you aren't a poetry user, the only dependencies are requests and python-dotenv.

Setting up authentication for the Spotify is tricky, like a lot of APIs. For command line utilities, I recommend following Ben Wiz's guide. To assist with this, there is an authorization.py script to obtain the necessary credentials and save them to a .spotify-auth.json file in the current working directory.

Before running this, set the following environment variables by creating a .env file with these contents.

SPOTIFY_USER_ID=xx
CLIENT_ID=xxx
CLIENT_SECRET=xxx

Optionally, add http://lawlesst.github.io/tools/auth-redirect.html as a redirect URI when configuring your API key. This will make it a little easier to read the code and not require you to create your own redirect page. If you don't want to use this, just update the redirect_uri variable in authorization.py.

To obtain credentials, run python authorization.py code. This will open a web browser where you can authenticate with Spotify, if not already, and then be redirected to a web page where you can copy the URL parameter CODE.

Then run python authorization.py refresh-token --code <value from the code URL parameter above>. This will obtain the necessary credentials and save them to a file called .spotify-auth.json in the current working directory. These can be passed the to included client library for authenticating with the API.