spotify-new-album

Historically "following" an artist on spotify hasn't allowed me to be notified immediately of an artist releasing an album. This program is designed to be run along with a wrapper script and cron to tell you when your favourite artist has posted a new album.

Details

50 min code challenge: Create a program that alerts when your favourite artist adds a new album.
Code is dodgy but it works.

Install / Run

1. Install prerequisites by running pip install python-dateutil spotipy
2. Go to https://developer.spotify.com/my-applications/ and create an application
3. Set the Redirect URI to http://localhost
4. Export your settings from the my-application page on spotify in your linux terminal:

export SPOTIPY_CLIENT_ID='<YOUR_SPOTIFY_CLIENT_ID>'
export SPOTIPY_CLIENT_SECRET='<YOUR_SPOTIFY_CLIENT_SECRET>'
export SPOTIPY_REDIRECT_URI='http://localhost/'

5. Edit spotify-new-album.py to enter your username
6. Run python spotify-new-album.py

Notes

Only tested on Python 3.4
If you import this into another python app you could probably do something cool like text you or whatever. But I had 50 minutes.

Sample output

(v_spotify) root@not-windows:~/spotify-new-album# python spotify-new-album.py


            User authentication requires interaction with your
            web browser. Once you enter your credentials and
            give authorization, you will be redirected to
            a url.  Paste that url you were directed to to
            complete the authorization.


Opened https://accounts.spotify.com/authorize?client_id=<trash>&response_type=code&redirect_uri=http%3A%2F%2Flocalhost%2F&scope=user-library-read in your browser


Enter the URL you were redirected to: http://localhost/?code=<trash>


Type: Single
Name: For Miles & Miles
Release Date: 2017-04-15
Type: Single
Name: Frameworks
Release Date: 2016-12-19
Type: Single
Name: Beautiful Life
Release Date: 2016-09-05
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