apple music to slack

Update your slack status with the current song playing via the Music.app

Setup

1. setup the slack app

   1. create a new app https://api.slack.com/apps?new_app=1 providing a name and selecting the desired Slack Workspace that you're going to run apple music to slack on.

   2. Under "Add features and functionality" select the "Permissions" section

   3. scroll down to "User Token Scopes" and add users.profile:write

   4. scoll up to the top of the page and click "Install App to Workspace".

   5. copy the OAuth Access Token, this will be used as the SLACK_SECRET_TOKEN

2. clone the repo & compile with cargo build

3. Run the binary with the env var SLACK_SECRET_TOKEN set to your OAuth Access Token

   Options:

   • run via shell

     export SLACK_SECRET_TOKEN=xoxp-11111-11111-11111-111111111111
     while true; do
         ./target/debug/apple-music-to-slack;
         # slack rates limit at anything less than 5 requests/second
         sleep 10;
     done

   • run via launchd

     cp ./target/debug/apple-music-to-slack /usr/local/bin/
     cp xyz.dignam.apple-music-to-slack.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents
     launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/xyz.dignam.apple-music-to-slack.plist
     
     # to disable the launchd job
     launchctl unload ~/Library/LaunchAgents/xyz.dignam.apple-music-to-slack.plist

4. Success! 🎶

prior art

• https://github.com/ocxo/slacktunes
• https://github.com/josegonzalez/python-slack-tunes