arthurtolley/spotify-playlist-tracker

Creates and adds songs to a new playlist tracking another spotify playlist, adds newly added songs and remembers removed songs.

Track public playlists.

Features:

• Update user playlist with new additions to the public playlist
• Remember removed tracks to prevent re-adding disliked tracks
• Produces a new playlist or updates a current playlist

Wants:

• Also maintains a master playlist of all added songs
• Convert to a web app
• Get somebody else to use and test to see if it works!

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This is very very barebones right now. To run this program you must have a .env file which contains a SPOTIPY_CLIENT_ID and SPOTIPY_CLIENT_SECRET string of the form:

SPOTIPY_CLIENT_ID='string_taken_from_spotify'
SPOTIPY_CLIENT_SECRET='string_taken_from_spotify'

Once this has been created in the spotify_playlist_tracker directory you can then update user_id, playlist_id and user_playlist_name in public_playlist_tracker.py, then run public_playlist_tracker.py in a command line environment. This should create and update a playlist belonging to your user.

Step-by-step:

• Create .env file with SPOTIPY credentials in spotify_playlist_tracker
• Change user_id, playlist_id and user_playlist_name in public_playlist_tracker.py
• Run public_playlist_tracker.py

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Getting Spotify credentials to use in the .env: https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/concepts/apps

spotify-playlist-tracker's Issues

[improvement] Option to set destination playlist

Instead of creating a new playlist, give the option to choose the destination playlist.

[feature] Live tracking of multiple playlists

• Track the changes to playlists all the time, not just when the code is run
• Select playlists to track and destination playlists

[test] First tests

• All functions
• All in one go

[documentation] Include some documentation

• Get started guide
• How to
• Features
• Future plans

[improvement] better usage of json

• more fields
• betters fields
• editing
• backups
• loading from backups

[improvement] Variable consistency

There is a lack of consistency in variables between the functions, naming and usage.

[feature] GUI

Figure out a basic GUI

[improvement] Logging/printing

Better logging to the console for both users and debugging in the future