Improved Spotify Current Song Display

This program displays information about a Spotify user's currently playing song in a Tkinter GUI.

Charlie Salinetti @sultanofswing 2021

GitHub Page

The program can be found here.

Usage

The program authenticates the user through Spotify's API, which opens a webpage where the user approves the program, and is directed to a website. When the link to the website is copied into the Python program, a code is recieved and sent back to Spotify. The JSON response is parced to recieve a user token, which allows requests to be made about the user's currently playing song.

Using the Python GUI Tkinter, a display is created. Using more API requests, the program is able recieve information about the current song being played and update the user's token which will expire after an hour. Using threading, the display is updated every second to check info about the current song being played, and the information in the Tkinter GUI is updated. The program will also stop displaying the song if none are being played at that moment, in the event that Spotify is closed or the program temorarily loses internet connection.

A Raspberry PI can be used to have this program displayed by itself on a monitor.

Implementation

This program requires the following libraries to be impemented:

python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip
python3 -m pip install --upgrade Pillow

This program requires a client_id.py file with the following implementation:

import requests

CLIENT_ID = '41da94c0f5f94c14927a75b502c9d21d'
CLIENT_SECRET = '<client secret>'

Email me at chsalinetti@gmail.com if you would like the program for personal use and need the CLIENT_SECRET.