A configurable Python album art collage generator for Spotify with automatic album discovery and color clustering. Featuring a novel and fully generalized approach to album art arrangement within the collage, spy-collage allows for an infinite degree of customization in the final product. Create rainbows, cluster images around predefined colors, or a combination of both! With spy-collage, the choice is yours.
- The classic rainbow: horizontal_spectrum preset
- Two distinct color clusters: red_vs_blue preset
Note: this project requires Python>=3.9.
First, clone the repository:
git clone https://github.com/stephanlensky/spy-collage.git
Then install with pip:
pip install -e spy-collage/
Additionally, Spotify API credentials are required. After setting up an application on the Spotify Developers site, credentials must be set as environment variables. Before running the application, ensure that SPOTIPY_CLIENT_ID and SPOTIPY_CLIENT_SECRET are set appropriately.
Usage: spy-collage [OPTIONS] [SOURCE]
A configurable album art collage generator for Spotify, featuring album
discovery and color clustering.
Arguments:
[SOURCE] Albums to generate the collage with. Either a single Spotify
playlist URI or a text file containing one of: a list of playlist
URIs, a list of album URIs, or a JSON list of albums collected
from the Spotify API.
Options:
-d, --dimensions COLLAGESIZE Dimensions of the generated collage,
specified as nxm [required]
-p, --preset TEXT Color arrangement preset to use for
generating the collage. Available presets
are defined in presets.ini. [required]
--discover / --no-discover Enable/disable automatic album discovery for
singles [default: no-discover]
--market TEXT When discovering albums, only consider those
available in this market [default: US]
--dedupe / --no-dedupe Experimental: When fetching album art, skip
albums whose art is identical to an already-
fetched album [default: no-dedupe]
--save-album-uris Save processed album URIs to albums.txt
-r, --album-cover-resolution [small|medium|large]
Resolution to download album covers at
[default: medium]
--install-completion [bash|zsh|fish|powershell|pwsh]
Install completion for the specified shell.
--show-completion [bash|zsh|fish|powershell|pwsh]
Show completion for the specified shell, to
copy it or customize the installation.
--help Show this message and exit.
For example, to generate a 12x9 collage from .\example_source_lists\selected_albums.txt using the horizontal_spectrum preset and small art resolution:
spy-collage -r small -d 12x9 -p horizontal_spectrum .\example_source_lists\selected_albums.txt