Buzzing on Spotify

Keeps a Spotify playlist up to date with the most recently Buzzed Spotify tracks (i.e. track links posted on Google Buzz by anyone in the world).

This is a hack by Erik Hartwig and Rasmus Andersson during the Google Spotify Hackathon July 12, 2010.

There is a live demo running and the resulting playlist can be found and subscribed to here: "Buzzing" http://open.spotify.com/user/rasmus/playlist/2PAIqo345bENl0XSnZU8hC

Building and running

Be adviced: this is a hack, not a polished product. It might not work at all. This has been tested and is running on Debian Linux.

You will need the following stuff:

• An API key (and secret) for the Google Buzz API. This will get you started: http://code.google.com/apis/buzz/

• A Spotify premium account and an application key for libspotify. You can create an application key by signing in here: https://developer.spotify.com/en/libspotify/application-key/

Now, it's time to setup and start the machine.

1. Download the libspotify application key as "c-code" and replace the contents of spotify-updater/appkey.c with the "c-code".

2. Run make in the spotify-updater directory.

3. Open run.sh in your favourite text editor and update the BUZZ_* and SPOTIFY_* variables with the Buzz API key and secret, and Spotify username.

4. Open spotify-updater/password in your text editor and replace the contents with your Spotify password (for the SPOTIFY_USER). Save the file and chmod 0400 spotify-updater/password so no one can read it but you.

5. Run ./run.sh

If everything works (yeah, right...) you should see new tracks popping up in the playlist (when observed in a Spotify client). Status and error messages will be printed to the terminal.

Tip: If you want to keep the playlist up to date by having the script running "autonomously", you can use the run-loop.sh wrapper and nohup like this:

nohup ./run-loop.sh &

And you can now log out from the terminal and the program will continue to run.

MIT license

Copyright (c) 2010 Erik Hartwig & Rasmus Andersson

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