spotify-status-on-slack

A very simple bash script to set Slack status to your currently playing track on Spotify.

How to use

• Clone this repo somewhere

• Set LEGACY_TOKEN var to the correct value. For more info, read here

• Set a reasonable personal crontab, e.g. to your working hours

  * 9-18 * * 1-5 ./main.sh >/dev/null 2>&1 # remember to set correctly the path of main.sh

  On Mac OS X it's better to use launchd instead of crontab. You can use this very good plist generator.

• Listen to a song on Spotify :) You'll see that your Slack status will be updated, e.g.:

  

• If someone hovers your status the track currently played by Spotify will appear on tooltip

  

• When you quit Spotify, stop playing tracks or simply pause playing, your current Slack status will be cleared

Why?

I was thinking about a simple way to let your colleagues/teammates know that you're listening to some songs on (head|ear)phones, so maybe you can't hear them if they will try to call you.

Also, could be a way to let other people know your musical tastes :)

TODO

• Instead of using a Legacy Token, setup a basic Slack App

Note

• It runs only on Mac OS X since it uses osascript.
• It's the result of a 30-min spike at ~10PM

Copyright 2018 Michele Pangrazzi xmikex83@gmail.com

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