Electron with which to interact with spotify connect devices without desktop / mobile app.
I've mainly built this because my spotify desktop app didn't work and wanted to get my keyboard hotkeys working again when I was playing music via spotify connect...
In the meantime I learned about electron and the spotify API, pretty nice :)
Storing it here since it might be useful to see how you can authorize an electron app with Spotify.
This is very much WIP and trying out how Electron / Spotify API work, I might make this nicer in future though :)
- Install NodeJS / NPM etc.
- Clone the repo
- Run
npm install - Create Spotify app secret/id, see: https://developer.spotify.com/dashboard/applications, for more info: https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/general/guides/app-settings/
- Set ENV variables (or add a development.json to /config folder) for Spotify API app secret/id
- CLIENT_SECRET
- CLIENT_ID
- Run
npm start - On first start you have to authorize the app to access your spotify account. It will pop up a little browser window where you can click 'OK' (or not, but then you can't do much)
- authentication with Spotify API
- play/pause
- forward/next
- volume
- hooks keyboard mediakeys for ^^
- toast-notifications on play/pause
- now playing / status
- choose spotify-connect-device where to play your music