Vinylify is a web application that allows you to search your Spotify top artists and find where to buy vinyl records for your favorite artists.

The project is currently being developed

• Connects to your Spotify account to retrieve your top artists.
• Provides a search functionality to find vinyl records for your favorite artists.
• Provides links to purchase the vinyl records directly from the sellers' websites.

1. Log in to your Spotify account using the provided login button.
2. Once logged in, your favorite artists appear.
3. Additonally you can enter the name of your favorite artist in the search bar and click "Search".

Using the Spotify API, the application retrieves the user's top artists. The user's top artists are displayed on the home page. The user can also search for vinyl records for their favorite artists. While the Discogs API seems like a good option, I want this project to benefit the artists, the record labels, and local record stores. Therefore, I will be using the Spotify API to retrieve the artist's information and then use the artist's name to search for vinyl records on the artist's official website or the record label's website or a local record store's website.

Each search will first look to see if it is in stock at a local record store If it is not in stock at a local record store, it will look to see if it is in stock at the record label's website If it is not in stock at the record label's website, it will look to see if it is in stock at the artist's official website

in order to reduce the number of API calls, the search results will be cached for a certain amount of time. This is helpful for popular artists who have a lot of searches. But it is also helpful for less popular artists who have fewer searches.

in order to increase speed, the backend is written in go and will utilize goroutines to make multiple API calls at once.

This project is licensed under the MIT License.