spotify-tracklister

Show title/album/artist information for a list of spotify track URIs.

Problem: The spotify client (at least the the Linux desktop client) doesn't have a function to copy title/album/artist information from tracks, one just can copy song links (looking like https://open.spotify.com/track/7I1yaqAkqYo3P2BHApuGzE) or track URI's (looking like spotify:track:7I1yaqAkqYo3P2BHApuGzE). I'd like to get title/album/artist information.

Solution: Resolve track URI's using Spotifys API.

This tool reads a list of song links or track URI's from an input file and prints a title/album/artist table.

Requirements

Python 3.8+
requests

Project dependencies are declared in pyproject.toml and fixed in poetry.lock, it's recommended to use Poetry to manage the project, e.g. create a virtual environment and install dependencies:

$ poetry install

then run the app:

$ poetry run stl -h

Howto

provide credentials or an access token in a config file (see credentials.ini.in for a template, see below how to get client credentials or a token)
add song links or track URI's to a text file (e.g. "tracks.txt"), one per line
run the command

$ ./stl -T -i tracks.txt

this will print a table with title/album/artist information to stdout and also write a json files named "spotify-tracks_<datetime>.json"
to print a playlist just pass a playlist URL (can be obtained from the Spotify app: right click > Share > Copy Playlist Link)

$ ./stl -i https://open.spotify.com/user/myusername/playlist/3jZmUF8dQOIrMErfdxMfDP

Credentials howto

The application requires either an access token or clientID and clientSecret. The credentials must be provided within a config file (in ini format, one section named "spotify"):

[spotify]
ClientID = some_client_id
ClientSecret = some_client_secret
AccessToken = some_accesstoken

The default location for this file is "credentials.ini" in the project root, or the -c / --credentials option can be used to pass the path to a file.

Either both of ClientID, ClientSecret or an AccessToken must be present.

Howto get a clientID / -secret

follow Spotify instructions to register an App:
https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/general/guides/app-settings/#register-your-app

Howto get an OAuth accesstoken