jessicabuzzelli/running-playlist-generator

Simple Go app built with Gin to blend random choices from "song" and "podcast" Spotify playlists into a new playlist.

running-playlist-generator

Simple Go app built with Gin to blend random choices from two Spotify playlists into one that matches a provided pattern.

Usage

cp .env_example .env & update .env w/ playlist IDs (available from the playlists' URLs), go build; go run main.go

Example:

Inputs:

• Playlist 1: "Running music"

• Playlist 2: "Podcast episodes"

• # of pocast episodes: 3

• # of songs between each episode: 4

Output:

• playlist of {song, song, song, song, episode} x 3

Example output:

Inspiration

I'm a slow runner and some of my longer training runs can pass the 2hr mark. I like listening to podcasts to pass the time, but prefer to keep a couple songs in the queue to introduce a "tempo" aspect to my pacing. Long story short, I hated to manually add songs to my Spotify queue so I could get "random" songs with podcasts sprinkled in and wanted to play around with Go, so I wrote this script.

WIP

• tests!
• frontend
• clearer error messages
• determine how to handle user OAuth tokens:
  • persist the active & refresh token + write middleware to check if valid?
  • make the Login/OAuthCallback handler's logic into middleware since users are only prompted to approve the scopes once anyways?