SpaceJam - the Spotify playlist generator

SpaceJam - Open playlist in Spotify

This program creates a Spotify playlist called SpaceJam. Tracks are added to the playlist based on the geolocation of the ISS (International Space Station).

Note: This is a work in progress

Details

The idea is to get the coordinates of the current ISS position and use this to create a keyword to search for a track on Spotify. The track is then added to the SpaceJam playlist.

The program creates the playlist if it doesn't already exists.

Note: ISS is mainly over water.

Creating a virtual environment

python3 -m venv .venv

Activating the newly created virtual environment

You always want your virtual environment to be active when working on this project.

source ./.venv/bin/activate

Installing Python requirements

This will install some of the packages you might find useful:

pip3 install -r ./requirements.txt

Create config file

1. Rename config.template.py --> config.py
2. and add required credentials

.gitignore will exclude config.py in future commits.

API Resources

ISS API: http://open-notify.org/Open-Notify-API/ISS-Location-Now/

Spotify API: https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/

Google Geocoding API: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/geocoding/intro

TODO

• Write a version of the program to be executed with an aws lambda function.
• Current state doesn't consider if a track is already in the playlist.
• General clean-up and improvement of code