SpotifySync

⚠️ this repository has been archived. if you want this project to be maintained please contact matievisthekat@gmail.com or fork this repo ⚠️

A WebSocket server used to transmit information to any SpotifySync app that tries to connect to it via its HTTP url. SpotifySync does not violate any legal agreements with Spotify.

Setup

1. Create a Spotify application at https://developer.spotify.com/dashboard/applications (make sure to keep your application's page open for later)

2. Click edit settings

3. Enter http://localhost as a redirect uri and click "Add"

4. Go to https://accounts.spotify.com/authorize?client_id=<YOUR_CLIENT_ID>&redirect_uri=http://localhost&scope=user-read-playback-state&response_type=code&show_dialog=true (replace <YOUR_CLIENT_ID> with your actual client's id) and click agree

5. You should see something like this

6. Copy the url in your search box

7. Open DevTools by pressing Ctrl+Shft+I (or the combination specific to your browser)

8. Then navigate to to "Console" tab (or your browser's equivalent) and paste the url between two single quotes

9. At the end of the line type .split("=")[1], press enter, and save the output somewhere for later

10. Go to https://www.base64encode.net/

11. In the text box enter <YOUR_CLIENT_ID>:<YOUR_CLIENT_SECRET> (replace <YOUR_CLIENT_ID> and <YOUR_CLIENT_SECRET> with your actual values from https://developer.spotify.com/dashboard/applications

12. Press "Encode" and copy the output

13. Open cmd on Windows or a terminal on macOS/Linux.

14. Type curl -H "Authorization: Basic <OUTPUT_HERE>" -d grant_type=authorization_code -d code=<CODE_FROM_EARLIER> -d redirect_uri=http%3A%2F%2Flocalhost https://accounts.spotify.com/api/token > output.txt (replace <OUTPUT_HERE> with your copied output and <CODE_FROM_EARLIER> with your saved code from step 9)

15. Open C:\Users\<your_username>\output.txt on Windows (or the equivalent for your operating system)

16. It should say something like {"access_token":"BQCRWpB8.....1hcxKsks","token_type":"Bearer","expires_in":3600,"refresh_token":"AQD.....FVUPjQ","scope":"user-read-playback-state"}. If it doesn't you will need to restart from step 4

14. Clone (not fork!) this repository. Be sure to make it private!

15. In your cloned repository create a file called config.json in the root directory

16. Enter this content (replace all necessary values)

{
  "client_id": "your client id",
  "client_secret": "your client secret",
  "access_token": "access_token from output.txt",
  "refresh_token": "refresh_token from output.txt",
  "expires_in": 3600,
  "fetched_timestamp": "the current timestamp (you can get it from https://www.currenttimestamp.com). remove the double quotes after pasting"
}

16. Run yarn start or yarn pm2

17. That's it! To connect to your server via the app you will need to get your server's public IP or setup a domain name