vansteki / spotify-current-playing

Use Spotify API to get current playing song

spotify-current-playing

Use Spotify API to get current playing song

Usage

You may want to check Authorization Guide

Install

1. install dependencies

Install Zsh Install Nodejs or Python3

brew install fx

2. git clone this repo

git clone https://github.com/vansteki/spotify-current-playing.git && cd spotify-current-playing

3. copy .env file

cp .env.template .env

4. Go to Spotify Dashboard to regist your own app, then fill some form, then back to .env:

CODE=""
ACCESS_TOKEN=""
REFRESH_TOKEN=""
CLIENT_ID=""       // you can get this from Spotify dashboard
CLIENT_SECRET=""   // you can get this from Spotify dashboard
REDIRECT_URI=""    // you can just use http://localhost:8000, should to be same as Redirect URIs in Spotify dashboard 

Redirect URIs in Spotify dashboard:

5. Launch local redirect server

node callback-server.js or python3 -m http.server 8000

6. Launch oyu Spotify, begin playing

7. Authentication

Make sure you can run scripts chmod 755 *.zsh

Get code for exchanging access token and refresh token

run ./get-code.zsh

just paste link to browser

1.Remember to launch callback server by "node callback-server.js"
2.Paste link below to your browser, and getting your code 👇:
https://accounts.spotify.com/authorize?client_id=276321612ge12e1a&response_type=code&redirect_uri=http://localhost:8000/callback&scope=user-read-currently-playing
Paste your code here:

Paste link in 2. to browser (if you are first time to this, you will be asked to login into Spotify to authorize this app to access your Spotify account), you should see something like:

{
  "msg":"Using this code to exchange access token 👇",
  "code":"AQCcIu9x....VKe"
}

Copy the code and paste it to prompt. If success, you should see something like these:

ACCESS TOKEN:
 BQAD_...dgA

REFRESH TOKEN:
 AQC...rgk

You can also found ACCESS TOKEN and REFRESH_TOKEN were been written into .env

Finally, just run

./app.zsh

You should get what you are playing now 😏

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It will request to API every 10 seconds.

By default, the access token will expire after 1 hour, this app will refresh token automatically.