Spotify Player Bot

This bot helps you listening to your favorite tracks via Spotify through quick and easy conversations which controls your Spotify Player. This bot has been created using Microsoft Bot Framework.

Prerequisites

• Visual Studio 2017 15.7 or newer installed.
• .Net Core 2.1 or higher installed.
• Bot Framework Emulator 4.1 or newer installed

Set up Spotify

• Navigate to Spotify Developer Dashboard
• Sign in to your Spotify Premium account
• Click CREATE A CLIENT ID
• Supply name, description and type
• Accept Spotifys all license agreements to create your non-commercial app
• Once the app is created store your Client ID and Client Secret as they will be used later
• Click Edit Settings
• Supply http://localhost:3979/callback as a Redirect URI, click Add and Save

Running Locally

Visual Studio

• Open SpotifyPlayerBot.csproj in Visual Studio.
• Open appSettings.json
• Add your Client ID as "spotifyAppId" and your Client Secret as "spotifyAppSecret"
• Run the project (press F5 key).

Testing the bot using Bot Framework Emulator

Microsoft Bot Framework Emulator is a desktop application that allows bot developers to test and debug their bots on localhost or running remotely through a tunnel.

• Install the Bot Framework emulator.

Connect to bot using Bot Framework Emulator V4

• Launch the Bot Framework Emulator.
• File -> Open bot and open SpotifyPlayerBot.bot.

Using the Spotify Player Bot

The Spotify Player Bot can control your player via the Control card: Such as play, pause, switching tracks, search and toggling repeat/shuffle. There is also ability to search for tracks and artists.

Spotify Player Bot can handle simple text input such as:

• play
• pause
• next
• previous
• search {artist, track or both}

Spotify Developer Terms of Service

Please be aware of Spotify Developer Terms of Service if you intend to use any of this work. You can find Spotify Developer Terms of Service here.