A command line interface to Spotify on Linux.
This project is inspired by the similar project called shpotify, which does similar things, but on macOS. It should be simple and follow the Unix philosophy.
pip install spotify-cli-linux
hint: if you encounter problems during installation, try to call command with sudo
pip install spotify-cli-linux --upgrade
hint: if you enconunter problems during upgrade, try to call command with sudo
start the official Spotify desktop app
run the following command from your terminal:
spotifycli
use one of the following parameters:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--version shows version number
--status shows song name and artist
--statusshort shows status in a short way
--song shows the song name
--songshort shows the song name in a short way
--artist shows artists name
--artistshort shows artist name in a short way
--album shows album name
--arturl shows album image url
--lyrics shows lyrics for the song playing
--playbackstatus shows playback status
--play plays the song
--pause pauses the song
--playpause plays or pauses the song (toggles a state)
--next plays the next song
--prev plays the previous song
--volumeup increases sound volume
--volumedown decreases sound volume
--client CLIENT sets client's dbus name
if you don't use any parameters, you'll enter the shell mode, where you'll be able to use all commands mentioned above
When you've seen the following error:
No module named dbus
Then try to install python-dbus! On Ubuntu you can do it as follows:
sudo apt-get install python-dbus
If you are using another distro, then try to install python-dbus with your package manager.
When, you're missing lyricwikia dependency, run the following command:
pip install lyricwikia
If you want to use this script in your tmux panel, you can check tmux-plugin-spotify.
to install necessary tools for code formatting, static code analysis and releasing, run:
make requirements
Source code should be formatted according to PEP8 style guides.
To format code, run:
make format
to verify code formatting, type:
make checkformat
To run static code analysis, execute:
make lint
to update docs on gh-pages, type:
make docs
to run docs locally, type:
git checkout gh-pages && ./serve.sh
and view page with docs at: 0.0.0.0:8000
view it on-line at https://pwittchen.github.io/spotify-cli-linux
configure your ~/.pypirc file as follows:
[distutils]
index-servers =
pypi
[pypi]
username:yourusername
password:yourpassword
then, update version in spotifycli/version.py and spotifycli/spotifycli.py and type:
make release
note: Version is not kept in a single file due to problems with importing files within another file and distributing them to PyPi. There are also Python vesion issues. If you know how to fix this issue properly to keep version in one place, I'd be happy to review your PR :-).