Display your current Spotify song on Discord using the RPC API:
- NodeJS >=8
- npm (>=5) or Yarn (>=1.2)
- Discord Canary (preferred)
- Spotify >= 1.0
- Git
- Clone the repo
git clone https://github.com/nations/spoticord.git - Install the modules
npm ioryarn - Open Discord & Spotify
- Start the RPC app
node app.js
- Install pm2
npm i pm2 -g - Start the app
pm2 start app.js --name="spoticord" - Use
pm2 log spoticordto view the logs - Restart the app using
pm2 restart spoticord
- To update SpotiCord, enter the "spoticord" directory and run
git fetchin your terminal.
Q: Can I get banned or punished by Discord for using this?
A: No. The RPC was made by Discord themselves and Spoticord has been recommended by Discord staff
Q: I don't see the progress bar, where's it gone?
A: Make sure you're using Discord Canary. Even still, Discord might remove this feature from time to time to update it since canary is a development version of Discord.
Q: Can I host this on an external server?
A: No, the Discord RPC api runs on your local Discord client, and unless you want to port forward a few things and create necessary firewall rules to do it, it's not worth it. You'd have to repeat that with the Spotify web helper api, too.
Q: I'm not experienced with this scope of programming, are there any tutorials?
A: Yes! I found a few on YouTube:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTP2t6VgAv8
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhQtXUH4jlU
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rntn6Jg8cHk
Q: I found an obscure error not mentioned in the troubleshooting section, what should I do?
A: First, check the closed (and open) issues on this repo, we might have answered it there already. If not, create a new one with the WHOLE error and when it occurred (during start, runtime, etc). Thank you!
- Go to Discord settings
- Go to "Games"
- Make sure "Display currently running game as a status message" is ticked
- Make sure your node is updated, you need at LEAST version 8.0.0!
- This is due to an outdated library which tries to help with Windows support
- Go to node_modules, go to wintools, go to lib
- Open ps.js
- On line 11, replace the whole line with:
exec('wmic process list /format:csv', {maxBuffer: 2000*1024}, function (err, stdout, stderr) {