Python Release Radar Albums

Uses Spotipy to read a playlist and determine which tracks belong to albums. Information about those albums is then written to a json output file.

Setup

• Install python
• Install Spotipy
  • pip install spotipy
• Refer to creating an app to get the necessary info client id and secret.
• Edit config.py
  • Set your spotify client id
  • set your spotify secret
  • set your playlist id
• Run
  • python collectReleaseRadarTracks.py

output

Once the script is run; open albums.json to gather the album information.

Setting up / collecting App Information

• Go to the Application Dashboard
  
  

• Create an app give it a name and a description
  
  

• Note the client id

• Click show client secret
  
  

• Click Edit Settings

  • Set the redirect uri
    
    

• Use this link https://developer.spotify.com/console/get-current-user-playlists/ To determine which playlist id you want to collect album information from.

  • OR open the playlist in the online spotify player and copy the playlist id from the url
    
    

• Fill in the collected id's into config.py
  
  

• From a command line install Spotipy

  • pip install spotipy

• From a command line run

  • python collectReleaseRadarTracks.py

• On initial run 2 things will happen.

  • A brower will be opened indicating status copy the url in the address bar
  • The command prompt will request that you copy the redirect url into it.
    
    

• On following runs the script should just run without prompts.
  
  

• In the out directory is a file named albums.json