pichsenmeister / slack-spotify-status

slack-spotify-status

A simple Slack app that updates your Slack status to the song you currently listen to on Spotify.

This app uses the Bolt for Slack framework.

Spotify configuration

1. Create a Spotify app here
2. Set REDIRECT_URL to your glitch project url https://<your-project>.glitch.me/spotify/oauth
3. Copy SPOTIFY_CLIENT_ID, SPOTIFY_CLIENT_SECRET and SPOTIFY_REDIRECT_URL to your .env variables
4. Get an access token by going through the OAUTH flow https://<your-project>.glitch.me/spotify/connect
5. Copy to token to SPOTIFY_REFRESH_TOKEN in your .env file

Slack app configuration

1. Create an app on Slack
2. Add User Token Scopes in OAuth & Permissions

• users.profile:read
• users.profile:write

3. Install App
4. Copy User Token to SLACK_USER_TOKEN in your .env file

Run the app

1. Install dependencies via npm or yarn
2. Create a .env file and make sure to set all variables

• SLACK_USER_TOKEN=<your Slack app's user token>
• SPOTIFY_CLIENT_ID=<your Spotify app's client id>
• SPOTIFY_CLIENT_SECRET=<your Spotify app's client secret>
• SPOTIFY_REDIRECT_URL=<your Spotify app's redirect url>
• SPOTIFY_REFRESH_TOKEN=<your Spotify access token>

3. Create a cronjob (or something similar) that calls /ping to update your status

Remix on Glitch

Remix on Glitch