A command line interface to Spotify on Linux.
This project is inspired by the similar project called shpotify, which does similar things, but on macOS.
View this project on PyPi at https://pypi.org/project/spotify-cli-linux/.
sudo pip install spotify-cli-linux
sudo pip install spotify-cli-linux --upgrade
start the official Spotify desktop app
run the following command from your terminal:
spotifycli
use one of the following parameters:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--version shows version number
--status shows song name and artist
--statusshort shows status in a short way
--song shows the song name
--songshort shows the song name in a short way
--artist shows artists name
--artistshort shows artist name in a short way
--album shows album name
--playbackstatus shows playback status
--play plays the song
--pause pauses the song
--playpause plays or pauses the song (toggles a state)
--next plays the next song
--prev plays the previous song
--volumeup increases sound volume
--volumedown decreases sound volume
When you've seen the following error:
No module named dbus
Then try to install python-dbus
! On Ubuntu you can do it as follows:
sudo apt-get install python-dbus
If you are using another distro, then try to install python-dbus
with your package manager.
If you want to use this script in your tmux panel, you can check tmux-plugin-spotify.
Source code should be formatted according to PEP8 style guides.
Install autopep8 and pycodestyle as follows:
pip install --upgrade autopep8
pip install --upgrade pycodestyle
Then run:
make format
to verify code formatting, type:
make check
to update docs on gh-pages
, type:
make docs
to run docs locally, type:
git checkout gh-pages
./serve.sh
and view page with docs at: 0.0.0.0:8000
configure your ~/.pypirc
file as follows:
[distutils]
index-servers =
pypi
[pypi]
username:yourusername
password:yourpassword
next, install twine:
pip install twine
then, update version in spotifycli/version.py
and type:
make release