simple-song-query-server

A simple query program that acts as a middle-man when users send a request to obtain currently playing song in particular services (i.e. spotify, youtube).

Required Third-party API keys

• Spotify API Dev Key: used to be able to make calls to spotify's endpoints to retrieve currently playing songs

• Google API Key: used to search for relevant album images (via google search), as well as to search youtube videos

Setup Steps

• Obtain a copy of the source
• Open a terminal and cd into the source
• Run npm install to obtain node dependencies
• Either modify the default config settings under ./config/default.js or create a new one (in this example, custom.js) using the following structure:

var _ = require('underscore');
var config = require('./default');

module.exports = _.extend(config, {
    'PORT': 8888,
    
    // log directory, be careful of backslashes -- they need to be double escaped
    'LOG_DIRECTORY': 'C:\\path\\to\\log\\directory',
    
    // lowest level of logging you want to have
    'LOG_LEVEL': 'debug',
    
    // obtain these from spotify
    'SPOTIFY_CLIENT_ID': '<insert client id here>',
    'SPOTIFY_CLIENT_SECRET': '<insert client secret here>',
    // don't forget to set the redirect url in spotify as well
    'SPOTIFY_REDIRECT_URL': 'http://<your server domain or ip>:<port>/spotify/authorize',
    
    // obtain these from google
    'GOOGLE_API_KEY': '<insert api key here>',
    'GOOGLE_SEARCH_ENGINE_ID': '<insert engine id here>'
});

• To run the server, run node app.js --config="./config/custom" (or default if you're overwriting the default config)
• If on Windows, I'd install this as a service so you don't need to run this every time your server reboots. I recommend nssm using these settings as an example:
  • Path: C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.exe
  • Startup directory: C:\Program Files\nodejs
  • Arguments: C:\dev\simple-song-query-server\app.js --config="./config/custom"