Spotify Visualizer

Visualize the current playing Spotify track with the album art using the web API.

This is a fork of the unmaintained spotispy repository. This fork changes the following:

• Use the spotify web API through spotify-web-api-node instead of scraping Spotify (which might get your account banned and is more unstable)
• Smooth progress bar at the bottom
• Various design tweaks
• Album name is no longer displayed because it's often included on the cover art anyways
• You now have to generate the oauth refresh token on your own (see below), which makes the code easier to maintain

How it looks like

How to install and run

1. Clone the repo with git clone https://github.com/l3d00m/spotify-visualizer.git
2. Install dependencies with npm install
3. Create a file called .env in the project root with the secrets (see below)
4. Run with npm start
5. Optional: Download the Montserrat font from here and put it in the lib directory.

.env secrets

CLIENT_ID=example-client-id
CLIENT_SECRET=example-client-secret
REFRESH_TOKEN=example-refresh-token

1. Create a spotify app here
2. Replace example-client-id with the client id and example-client-secret with the client secret.
3. Open this handy tool: https://grant.outofindex.com/spotify for generating the needed refresh token with the following steps
4. Paste your above client id and secret into the app section on the site
5. Under scope add user-read-currently-playing and user-read-playback-state
6. Now replace example-refresh-token in the .env file with the generated refresh-token and you're done

Alternatively you can use the Spotify API directly as described in their api docs, but this is needlessly complicated.

Multiple monitors?

You can switch between your displays with Ctrl+Shift+Right.