reddit-spotify-playlist-generator 🎵

A simple way to generate a Spotify playlist based on posts from a specific Subreddit.

Uses praw for interacting with the Reddit API and Spotipy to interact with the Spotify API.

You'll need a developer app on Reddit which can be created here. You'll also need a developer app on Spotify which can be created here.

Table of Contents

• Installation
  • Running with Docker
• Usage
• Development

Installation

Running with Docker

$ docker run -it --rm \
    -e REDDIT_CLIENT_ID=<reddit-client-id> \
    -e REDDIT_CLIENT_SECRET=<reddit-client-secret> \
    -e SPOTIPY_CLIENT_ID=<spotify-client-id> \
    -e SPOTIPY_CLIENT_SECRET=<spotify-client-secret> \
    -e SPOTIPY_REDIRECT_URI=<local-callback-uri> \
    w1lkins/reddit-to-spotify

Usage

usage: generate.py [-h] [--subreddit SUBREDDIT] [--limit LIMIT]
                   [--playlist-name PLAYLIST_NAME] [--username USERNAME]

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --subreddit SUBREDDIT
                        Name of subreddit to grab songs from
  --limit LIMIT         How far back to search on Reddit, week/month etc.
  --playlist-name PLAYLIST_NAME
                        Name of playlist to create on Spotify
  --username USERNAME   Spotify user to create playlist for

Development

You'll need all the aforementioned environment variables exported within your environment:

REDDIT_CLIENT_ID=<reddit-client-id>
REDDIT_CLIENT_SECRET=<reddit-client-secret>
SPOTIPY_CLIENT_ID=<spotify-client-id>
SPOTIPY_CLIENT_SECRET=<spotify-client-secret>
SPOTIPY_REDIRECT_URI=<local-callback-uri>

Then, ensure python3+ is installed and run make virtual.

Next, run source venv/bin/activate then make install to install the libraries in requirements.txt.

You should now be able to run make which will run ./generate.py