fresh_script

This program will search for spotify tracks posted in the HipHopHeads subreddit and add them to a playlist of your choice. HipHopHeads is a subreddit dedicated to everything hiphop, including the latest mixtapes, videos, news, and anything else hip hop related from your favorite artists.

Getting Started

Prerequisites

This project uses Python3. You will need to setup a Spotify developer account and register your app. You will need the following things for this code:

client id
client secret
your spotify username
playlist id of the playlist you want to add the tracks to
the url you want to redirect to for authentication, i.e. http://google.com/ You will also need to setup a reddit instance with praw. Heres a useful guide I used to do this.

pip3 install praw
pip3 install spotipy
pip3 install configparser

Running the script

Running the program is simple. The first time you run it, you will be asked for your Spotify credientials which will be saved to a config file for ease of use in the future. Choose to sort results by hot or new, enter a post limit, and then enjoy.

python fresh.py

Running the script using cron

We can use cron to automatically run the script periodically in order to keep it up-to-date. You will need either a macOS computer or Linux server to use cron.

Follow the running the script instructions to make sure your .config.ini file is generated with the required parameters
Run crontab -e to open the cron editor, which is similar to vim

Use the following format to create a line for your cron

* * * * * command to be executed
- - - - -
| | | | |
| | | | ----- Day of week (0 - 7) (Sunday=0 or 7)
| | | ------- Month (1 - 12)
| | --------- Day of month (1 - 31)
| ----------- Hour (0 - 23)
------------- Minute (0 - 59)

For example, you would do the following to run this everyday at 9AM

0 9 * * * python /home/jsmith/fresh.py

Contributing