/NowPlaying-for-Spotify

A Spotify Connect visualizer

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NowPlaying for Spotify

Welcome on my project's GitHub page NowPlaying for Spotify ! This is a Spotify Connect visualizer, which has had its codebase made in half a day.

Website : nowplayingforspotify.ga

Personal Discord account : @busybox#2540

Dedicated Discord server : nowplaying.ga/discord

Latest release : 1.5.2

Changelog

v1.5.X

  • Added playback support (Premium account should be needed)
  • Added playback information
  • Added pause button (#17)
  • CSS improvements added for better responsive (#15 #16)
  • SEO improvements (#16)
  • Minor CSS improvements

v1.4.X

  • Advertisements are recognized
  • Multiple artists are recognized
  • Experimental theme switcher

v1.3.X

  • Now playing device name and type is showing
  • Cursor is hidden after a couple of seconds
  • Fullscreen button

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Coded in :

HTML, CSS, JS, PHP

Used libraries :

Spotify Web API PHP by jwilsson to obtain the token and refresh token, Spotify Web API JS by JMPerez to retrieve and display the currently playing song

Known bugs

  • Podcasts aren't recognized

Upcoming features

  • Themes (experimental theme / theme switcher since v1.4.3)

How to host ?

You can use XAMPP (multi-platform) or Wampserver (Windows only) but any webserver with PHP 7.0 or greater is good to use, with the php-curl module.

What modifications are required ?

You should have a declared app in Spotify's developer dashboard to obtain a Client ID.

How to do it : As I said, the first thing is to create a Client ID (Create a Client ID button) on Spotify's developer dashboard. Type your app's name in the App or Hardware name text field, and its description on the App or Hardware description text field. In the What are you building ? section, indicate the platform which you are building the app for, then click on the NEXT button. Answer to the commercial integration question, and continue. If necessary, fill the form and check all the boxes at the 3rd stage and you're ready to go. Your app is declared in Spotify's developer dashboard !

Now that you have your app, you have some modifications to do in two files : login.php and token.php.

Edit those values :

  • YOUR_CLIENT_ID by your Client ID available on your app's panel,
  • YOUR_CLIENT_SECRET by your Client Secret available by clicking on the Show Client Secret button situated on the same webpage as your client ID,
  • YOUR_DOMAIN by your redirect URL, in the case of a local hosting replace it by http://localhost/token.php in most cases. Basicaly, it's the accessible URL for the token.php page.

Let's go back on our app's panel. You need to declare the URL where the token.php page is located, for a local hosting it would be in most cases http://localhost/token.php. Click on the green Edit settings button situated on the top of the page, then in the Redirect URIs text field, indicate yours. ATTENTION : what you typed should IMPERATIVELY be the same as what you wrote in the two precedent files ! Then click on the SAVE button on the very bottom of the form. Your app is declared and ready to use !

Credits

Flags by Freepik of the www.flaticon.com website under Creative Commons BY 3.0 license.

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