(a.k.a this month in music)
Update: as of November 27, 2024, Spotify has updated their API to no longer allow access to "algorithmic and Spotify-owned editorial playlists", which sadly seems to include the On Repeat playlist :(. So this project remains a nice showcase of the Spotify API and AWS SES, but is no longer functional.
This is a nice little AWS Lambda function to gather all the tracks in my On Repeat Spotify playlist and send them through email. We're using:
- Spotify's API to get the contents of the On Repeat playlist (which is public so we can use client credentials for the authentication). No libraries, only HTTP calls
- Mustache as a templating library to generate the email body (since it is very simple and has no dependencies)
- AWS Simple Email Service to send the actual email (once a month to one recipient does not cost anything... I think 😅), through the AWS Node.js SDK
That's it, basically :)