spotify_album_URI

Overview

This repo contains the Python code to download the album covers and album information of your most played artists on Spotify. This code is used in an Instructable Albums-With-NFC-Tags-to-Automatically-Play-Spotify where I show how to use NFC tags to automatically play an album on Spotify by tapping the album cover with your phone.

Prerequisites

Python Environment

You need a Python environment with the following packages installed:

• spotipy
• pandas

You can install these packages using the requirements.txt file by:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Spotify API credentials

You will need to provide your Spotify API credentials in the album_covers_and_URIs.py file. Here's how you can obtain these credentials:

1. Create a Spotify developer account at Spotify Developer.
2. After creating an account, create a new application.
3. Copy the Client ID and Client Secret from your newly created application.
4. Paste these into the corresponding constants (SPOTIFY_CLIENT_ID and SPOTIFY_CLIENT_SECRET) in the album_covers_and_URIs.py file.

Usage

python album_covers_and_URIs.py <Spotify_username>

The first time you run the script, a link will open in your default browser. This is to give the application access to modify your Spotify playlists with the scope user-top-read. After giving the application access, you are directed to a link starting with http://example.com/... Copy the whole link and paste it in the terminal or command prompt to give the script the necessary permissions.

The output of the script consists of:

• a folder Covers containing the album covers of your most played artists
• a file album_covers_and_URIs.csv containing the album information and URIs of the albums
• a file Tagwriter_mass_encodings.csv containing the mass_encodings data needed to write the NFC tags.

For more information on how to use these files, have a look at the Instructable Albums-With-NFC-Tags-to-Automatically-Play-Spotify.