Spotify Sample Playlist

Getting Started

Setup TLDR; git clone https://github.com/cpease00/spotify-samples.git && cd spotify-samples && conda env create -f environment.yml

• Ensure some form of conda is installed.
• Clone this repo with git clone https://github.com/cpease00/spotify-samples.git
• cd to the new directory, and create a new virtual environment with conda env create -f environment.yml
  • Refer to environment.yml for a list of packages

Spotify API Access; config.py

If you haven't used the spotify API before:

• Head to the developer dashboard and register a new application
• Setup a redirect as http://localhost:<SOME_FREE_PORT>
  • This can be found in the information page of a registered application > edit settings.
• Create config.py at the root of the repository, and populate it as follows: (NOTE: these are not valid credentials )

# ClientID from registered application at:
https://developers.spotify.com/dashboard/applications
client = '7bf224e8jn954215s3g11degh599e3an'

# Client Secret can be found below 'SHOW CLIENT SECRET' once you are on the info
# page of a registered application
secret = '7bf224e8jn954215s3g11degh599e3an'

# The easiest way I've found to get this is to hit the /v1/me endpoint:
# https://developer.spotify.com/console/get-current-user/
# find the "uri" property, e.g. "uri": "spotify:user:1134745600"
username = '1134745600'

# setup this redirect on a registered application. make sure it
# is identical to the letter or you'll get "INVALID REDIRECT"
redirect = 'http://localhost:8889'

Usage

This is a short program that, given a Spotify playlist, creates a new playlist containing all the samples in that playlist. When the sample_finder file is run, the user is prompted to input the Spotify playlist uri, which can be found in the playlist details. The user then inputs the desired name for their new sample playlist, and within seconds, the sample playlist is created. This was created for my personal use, to find new music sampled in some of my favorite songs.

Example Use (from stout)

TODO

Program Overview

Playlists are read from Spotify through the Spotify API using Spotipy. Song names and artists are stored and then located on Whosampled.com. Whosampled.com is a fantastic service where users report samples in music which are verified by other users. A request is sent to the site searching for the song name, selecting a result with the matching artist name and storing the link to that song's page. A second request is sent to that song page, and BeautifulSoup is used to scrape HTML for sample names, which are also stored. Next, the samples are located using Spotipy, if they exist. Finally, a new playlist is created for the user, containing all the samples available on Spotify.

Example Route Parsing

album = None
with open('test_payload_f.json', 'r') as f:
    import json
    album = json.loads(f.read())

album_ttle = album['name']
artist = album['artists'][0]['name']
tracks = album['tracks']['items']

track_info = []
for track in tracks:
    info = {}
    info['title'] = track['name']
    info['uri'] = track['uri']
    track_info.append(info)

print(json.dumps(track_info, indent=2))

Notes

This project is based on the work of Christopher Pease (cpease00)'s sample collection tool Spotify-Samples. Without his medium article on the topic, I would have had a bunch
more pain to go through in producing the project as it is now.