Spotilocal allows you to query the local spotify client and fetch informations about the current status and perform actions such as start/stop.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'spotilocal'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install spotilocal

You can specify a port to create the instance faster. Otherwise spotilocal will try to discover the port.

# Create a new spotify object
s = Spotilocal::Client.new port: 4382

After that you can simply fetch some informations.

s.status
s.pause   # true if paused
s.unpause # true if playing

Spotilocal comes with a thor cli. The cli is currently a bit slow due to port autodiscover. You can use it like this

spotilocal play URI # plays uri
spotilocal pause    # guess what
spotilocal unpause  # yup..

To display or fetch information about the current status you can use spotilocal current [RESOURCE] Available resources are album, track and artist

spotilocal current album | jq
# {
#   "name": "Die bekannteste unbekannte Band der Welt",
#   "uri": "spotify:album:6EcMsNVKYMpA2Kqi1GSUAA"
# }

spotilocal current artist | jq
# {
#   "name": "SDP",
#   "uri": "spotify:artist:1EfwyuCzDQpCslZc8C9gkG"
# }

spotilocal current track | jq
# {
#   "name": "Wenn ich groß bin",
#   "uri": "spotify:track:5oEoQtl4qDwR7kstlTTBRu",
#   "length": 206,
#   "type": "normal"
# }

If you only want one specific information you can use --only or -o

spotilocal current track -o name
#> Wenn ich groß bin

Thor allows argument guessing. So commands like spotilocal un will work too.

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/Flipez/spotilocal.

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.