dredly/spotify-sync-go

Spotify-Sync

Ever wanted to create a collaborative playlist on spotify with a friend, but you don't both have premium? Perhaps this could help. You can run this command line tool with spotify-sync <source-playlist-id> <dest-playlist-id> ...more pairs of playlist ids. This will copy all new tracks form the source playlist (any public playlist) into the destination playlist (any of your playlists).

If you have playlist A and your friend has playlist B, simply get your friend to follow playlist A, and add any new songs to playlist B. Then run spotify-sync as a cronjob to effectively turn playlist A into a collaborative playlist.

Contributions

Pull requests are welcome!

Setup

Binary

You can get a binary targeted at your architecture from goblin using the following command curl -sf http://goblin.barelyhuman.xyz/github.com/dredly/spotify-sync-go | sh

Spotify API

You will need to login to spotify for developers, and get your client id and client secret. Then go to the dashboard and find the option to Create App. Most of the information here is not important, but makes sure to put localhost:9000/callback as the Redirect URI.

Environment setup

You will need the following environment variables defined

• SPOTIFY_API_CLIENT_ID
• SPOTIFY_API_CLIENT_SECRET
• SPOTIFY_USERNAME
• SPOTIFY_PASSWORD

Testing it Out

Move the binary to somewher in your PATH, such as usr/local/bin, then try invoking it from the command line with spotify-sync <source-playlist-id> <dest-playlist-id> ...more pairs of playlist ids

Setting up a CronJob

By default the crontab won't pick up your environment variables defined in .profile or equivalent, so you'll need to source these as part of the cronjob. This can be done as below. You can also supply a filepath to output logs to, so that you can check that everything is working.

30 19 * * * . <path to file with environment variables>; spotify-sync <source playlist id> <destination playlist id> >> <path to log file>

The above example will run the script with one pair of playlists at 19:30 every day and log to a file.

In the future

Instructions for windows scheduled job