Here I created what is called a 'LIRI'. LIRI is like iPhone's SIRI. However, while SIRI is a Speech Interpretation and Recognition Interface, LIRI is a Language Interpretation and Recognition Interface. LIRI will be a command line Node app that takes in parameters and gives you back data all in the command line! Thanks to the Coding Boot Camp for template code. Yay!
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To retrieve the data that will power this app, you'll need to send requests to the Twitter, Spotify and OMDB APIs. You'll find these Node packages crucial for your assignment.
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Make a file called
random.txt
.- Inside of
random.txt
put the following in with no extra characters or white space:- spotify-this-song,"I Want it That Way"
- Inside of
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Make a JavaScript file named
liri.js
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At the top of the
liri.js
file, write the code you need to grab the data from keys.js. Then store the keys in a variable. -
Make it so liri.js can take in one of the following commands:
my-tweets
spotify-this-song
movie-this
do-what-it-says
node liri.js my-tweets
- This will show your last 20 tweets and when they were created at in your terminal/bash window.
node liri.js spotify-this-song '<song name here>'
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This will show the following information about the song in your terminal/bash window
- Artist(s)
- The song's name
- A preview link of the song from Spotify
- The album that the song is from
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If no song is provided then your program will default to "The Sign" by Ace of Base.
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You will utilize the node-spotify-api package in order to retrieve song information from the Spotify API.
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Like the Twitter API, the Spotify API requires you sign up as a developer to generate the necessary credentials. You can follow these steps in order to generate a client id and client secret:
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Step One: Visit https://developer.spotify.com/my-applications/#!/
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Step Two: Either login to your existing Spotify account or create a new one (a free account is fine) and log in.
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Step Three: Once logged in, navigate to https://developer.spotify.com/my-applications/#!/applications/create to register a new application to be used with the Spotify API. You can fill in whatever you'd like for these fields. When finished, click the "complete" button.
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Step Four: On the next screen, scroll down to where you see your client id and client secret. Copy these values down somewhere, you'll need them to use the Spotify API and the node-spotify-api package. See the
node liri.js movie-this '<movie name here>'
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This will output the following information to your terminal/bash window:
- Title of the movie.
- Year the movie came out.
- IMDB Rating of the movie.
- Rotten Tomatoes Rating of the movie.
- Country where the movie was produced.
- Language of the movie.
- Plot of the movie.
- Actors in the movie.
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You'll use the request package to retrieve data from the OMDB API. Like all of the in-class activities, the OMDB API requires an API key. You may use
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node liri.js do-what-it-says
- Using the
fs
Node package, LIRI will take the text inside of random.txt and then use it to call one of LIRI's commands.- It should run
spotify-this-song
for "I Want it That Way," as follows the text inrandom.txt
. - Feel free to change the text in that document to test out the feature for other commands.
- It should run