declankeyesbevan/spotify-my-words

Dev challenge for a job application which tests API creation and consumption

Spotify my Words

Yo dawg we heard you like songs so we got you to send us some letters to get back a playlist.

About

Dev challenge for a job application which tests API creation and consumption.

Send a query string of letters and you will get back a playlist of songs from Spotify which start with the same letters. For example if your query string is cool you could get back:

"Chinook - Dakota",
"Open Your Eyes - Remastered - Nalin & Kane",
"Old Skin - Ólafur Arnalds ft. Arnór Dan,
"Loreley - Kölsch",

Requires

python3.6

Prerequisites

A Spotify developer account and a registered app.

From there store your client ID and client secret into the following environment variables:

CLIENT_ID
CLIENT_SECRET

You may also wish to add a certificate to avoid insecure connection warnings to the Spotify API. I use the Python library certifi for this.

Installation

git clone https://github.com/declankeyesbevan/spotify-my-words.git
cd spotify-my-words
pip3 install virtualenv
virtualenv env
. env/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
export PYTHONPATH=`pwd`

Run

Start the Flask app from the runner.

chmod a+x run_my_dawg.py
python run_my_dawg.py

Usage

Using your HTTP tool of choice (I like Postman, but you can use a browser) send a GET to localhost with a query string like the following:

http://0.0.0.0:5000/secretmsg?msg=cooly/ 56b>'"@ HDasj4952304[]`6hdch

Anything that is not a letter will be ignored and what is left will be lower-cased so this will resolve to coolybhdasjhdch. Anything longer than 30 valid characters will also be ignored.

Or if you like the command-line:

curl -X get http://0.0.0.0:5000/secretmsg?msg=coolmessagebro