LikeThisSong-SpotifyAPI

What it does?

It adds (if there is a song playing) the current song to a playlist, with just a press in the "home" key, using the Spotify API.

If you press the "end" key it stops listen to key events.

Creates a log file.

What I've learned?

OAuth 2.0 authentication

Observer Pattern

Manipulate datetime format

Dependencies

• keyboard module
• secrets module

Requirements

1 - Get the authorization code:

• Create an app into spotify api
• Add redirect_uri: http://localhost:8888/callback
• Insert client_id in the link below
• https://accounts.spotify.com/authorize?client_id=<client_id>&response_type=code&redirect_uri=http%3A%2F%2Flocalhost%3A8888%2Fcallback%2F&scope=user-read-playback-state%20playlist-modify-private
• Past it in the browser
• Accept terms
• Get the auth code after "code=" in the url

2- Request auth token:

• Add the client_id, client_secret, auth_code that you got before in the following script:

encoded = base64.b64encode(bytes(f"{<client_id>}:{<client_secret>}", "utf-8")).decode("ascii")
code = '<auth_code>'
token_endpoint = 'https://accounts.spotify.com/api/token'
headers = {'Authorization': 'Basic ' + encoded, 'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'} payload = {'grant_type': 'authorization_code', 'code': code, 'redirect_uri': http://localhost:8888/callback
response = requests.post(token_url, data=payload, headers=headers)
token = dict(response.json())['access_token']
refresh_token = dict(response.json())['refresh_token']
print(token)
print(refresh_token)

• your token and refresh_token will be prompted in your console

3- Edit secrets.py file:

• Add your client_id and client_secret
• Add your token
• Add your refresh_token

4- Change the playlist id in the line 88, after /playlists/

To get your playlist id: https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/#/operations/get-list-users-playlists