LIRI is a CLI app that delivers the goods from multiple APIs! Search Spoitfy for tracks, bandsintown for shows, or the OMDB for movies right from the command line.
LIRI requires the Node.js command line tool. First go to the node.js website and download and install node.
Once node is installed, you can use the Node Package Manager to install all relevent dependencies listed in the included package.json file. Do this by opening a terminal in your LIRI directory, making sure you are connected to the internet, and running:
npm install
Additionally, this software does not come with the necessary keys to access the Spotify API. In order to make this function work, a file named .env must be present and must contain two keys provided by Spotify in the following format:
SPOTIFY_ID=your-spotify-key
SPOTIFY_SECRET=your-spotify-secret
The dotenv package is responsible for interfacing the included keys.js with the .env file you provide with LIRI.
If you have done this correctly, and you have valid keys, all LIRI functions should now be available to you.
LIRI requires several third-party packages to run. These are stored in the package.json file in your LIRI directory. When you run npm -i, the following packages will be downloaded and installed into your LIRI directory:
axiosdotenvfsmomentnode-spotify-api
LIRI is organized into four different commands:
By invoking these, followed by a band name, song title, or movie title, LIRI will automatically select and search the appropriate online resourse.
This uses axios to pass a search term of indeterminate length to the bands in town API, which then returns a list of upcoming performances of arbitrary length. The date is formatted properly by moment.js.
Search bands in town with the following:
$ node liri.js concert-this mucca pazza
This will yield the following output, or something like it:
Humiston-Riverside Park
Pontiac, IL
06/27/2019
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Weird Al Strings Attached 2019
Highland Park, IL
07/28/2019
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This uses the node-spotify-api package to request song information from the Spotify API.
Search Spotify like this:
$ node liri.js spotify-this-song Hooked on a Feeling
This will yield the following output:
Hooked on a Feeling
Björn Skifs
Hooked On A Feeling
https://open.spotify.com/track/6Ac4NVYYl2U73QiTt11ZKd
This also uses axios to search the Open Movie Database (OMDB) service for information about a given movie title.
Like so:
$ node liri.js movie-this The Matrix
This will yield the following output:
The Matrix (1999)
Starring: Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving
A computer hacker learns from mysterious rebels about the true nature of his reality and his role in the war against its controllers.
Internet Movie Database: 8.7/10 Rotten Tomatoes: 88% Metacritic: 73/100
Country: USA Language(s): English
Do what it says makes use of the fs package to read a command and argument from the provided random.txt file.
By default, do-what-it-says will search Spotify for I Want it That Way, by
The Backstreet Boys. Unless you change it, of course.
$ node liri.js do-what-it-says
Will yield the following output:
I Want It That Way
Backstreet Boys
The Hits--Chapter One
https://open.spotify.com/track/6e40mgJiCid5HRAGrbpGA6
In part because of the lengthy nature of some concert-this responses, a text file, log.txt, is provided to record the output. It will be created by the first call to any of the three search functions, and will be appended to after each subsequent search.
Sample log.txt file entries:
***mucca pazza Tour Dates***
Humiston-Riverside Park
Pontiac, IL
06/27/2019
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Weird Al Strings Attached 2019
Highland Park, IL
07/28/2019
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The Matrix (1999)
Starring: Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving
A computer hacker learns from mysterious rebels about the true nature of his reality and his role in the war against its controllers.
Internet Movie Database: 8.7/10 Rotten Tomatoes: 88% Metacritic: 73/100
Country: USA Language(s): English
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Hooked on a Feeling
Björn Skifs
Hooked On A Feeling
https://open.spotify.com/track/6Ac4NVYYl2U73QiTt11ZKd
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Each of the three search functions also have a default search that they perform if no argument is passed to them, but I won't show you here, you'll just have to try them out!
LIRI was developed based on an assignment in the University of Minnesota Full-Stack Web Developer Boot Camp program. This version of the assignment was authored entirely by me, Thomas Christ.