Save a playlist

Saveaplaylist.com allows you to take a snapshot of Spotify playlists.

Background

Many Spotify users have expressed interest in the ability to opt-out of playlist updates, however, this is not a feature Spotify offers. What does this mean? A playlist you've had on repeat for the last two weeks can be changed or removed at any time at the discretion of the playlist owner.

Sometimes having songs removed from or added to a playlist is refreshing; a change in the order of your playlists' songs is welcomed.

For the times when playlist changes are not welcomed, you can use saveaplaylist.com to capture the current state of a playlist for future enjoyment.

Some playlists are perfect the way they are!

How it works

It's simple. We use the Spotify API to:

1. Search for existing playlists.
2. Create a new playlist in your account, owned by you.
3. Add each song from the playlist you want to save to your new playlist.

These steps are Spotify's recommended method to save a playlist, we've just automated it. 🤓

Run Save-a-playlist locally

First run git clone https://github.com/JonGeorge/Save-a-Playlist.git. Then, there are 3 things you must do to get the application running locally:

1. Create a .env file containing application environment variables.
2. Create a .env.db file containing database environment variables.
3. Comment out the certbot and nginx services in docker-compose.yml.

1. Create a .env file

In the project root directory, create a file named .env and set the following values:

# Set to true for verbose application logging
DEBUG=true

# Set the port on which the application should listen
PORT=

# Set the protocol used by the application (use "http://" for local dev)
PROTOCOL=http://

# Spotify credentials
CLIENT_ID=
CLIENT_SECRET=

# Random string for session cookie encryption
COOKIE_SECRET=

# Database details allowing the application to connect to the database
PGHOST=
PGUSER=
PGDATABASE=
PGPASSWORD=
PGPORT=

2. Create a .env.db file

In the project root directory, create a file named .env.db and set the following values:

# Set the database password
POSTGRES_PASSWORD=

# Set the database to create
POSTGRES_DB=

# Set the database user
POSTGRES_USER=