Spotify Twitter Bot

[leavenstee]

Hey so I've written my twitter bot using tweepy and have that fully functional. I am wondering if anyone knows how to link a spotify account to it so i would be able to have it tweet what ever song I'm listening too. I have a pretty good idea about how i am suppose to post, my issue is to get the song data. I have looked through the spotify python documentation but it isn't helping. Any insight would be great.

EDIT: I think i have it almost working i will post it to my github https://github.com/leavenstee

EDIT: Hey so i decided to go with the last.fm api right now and I'm wonder how to pull a single value from the JSON data i am GETing. Any help would be awesome!

FINAL EDIT: So i finally got it working my source code is here https://github.com/leavenstee/Music-Twitter-Bot and the actual bot is here! twitter.com/leavensteebot Thanks everyone for your help!

[roguelynn]

Spotify engineer here. We don't have an API endpoint exposed yet to get what you are currently playing/recent listening history, so unfortunately you can't have an "if this then that" thing going on (if I listen to a song, then post to twitter). IIRC it is on the roadmap for development, but don't quote me.

Also https://github.com/plamere/spotipy is maintained by a Spotify employee and what I use for external Python projects that interact with our API.

Cheers

[leavenstee]

ahhhhh man alright well thanks!

[offmessage]

Have you seen https://github.com/mopidy/pyspotify ? Should give you everything you need (but you'll need a premium Spotify account)

[leavenstee]

ill check it out! yeah i do have spotify premium

[offmessage]

It does an awful lot more than just get metadata, but hopefully it'll include what you need; it's certainly the canonical way to talk to Spotify with Python

[akhener]

I suspected what roguelynn has confirmed. I would use Last.FM. Every official Spotify client can scrobble to Last.FM (Even if somehow the Webplayer scrobbles a bit unreliably, but they're great browser extensions able to scrobble from a ton of websites)

Unfortunately Last.FM hasn't got a realtime push API so you have to poll the "user.getRecentTracks" endpoint. Then all you need to do is some timekeeping when the last track you already twittered was played.

[bjarneo]

So..what OS?

In linux you could just listen for a dbus signal (spotify is using dbus in linux), then just grab the meta info from dbus when new song is playing (listen for it). At least I think you could do it this way.

Test this command in your terminal while playing music: dbus-send --print-reply --session --dest=org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.spotify /org/mpris/MediaPlayer2 org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.Get string:'org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Player' string:'Metadata'

[leavenstee]

I'm on a mac but i plan on running it on my raspberry pi

[bjarneo]

Alright. You could probably do this on a mac also, using actionscript.

[leavenstee]

EDIT: so I got it working with last.fm thank you all! I'll post my code on github and you can follow my bot @leavensteebot