one-album-per-day

Simple python CLI tool that fetches the daily album from a 1001albumsgenerator.com project and populates a Spotify playlist with it.

The album changes daily and the spotify playlist always contains that daily album after running this tool.

Run this tool through a scheduler like cron to keep updating a playlist with the album of the day.

Auth

To authenticate this app with spotify, an app registration at spotify is required. That can be setup here.

As this app does not have a GUI, direct integration with oAuth 2.0 is a little tricky and might be done at a later point. So for now, given an existing authorization, the refresh token is used to generate access tokens to spotify.

1. Generate an access token e.g. through Postman or a similar tool. Required scopes are playlist-modify-private playlist-read-private ugc-image-upload.
2. Copy the refresh token and use the function pickle_refresh_token to save the refresh token into the application folder
3. Given a valid configuration, the client ID and the client secret will be used with the refresh token to generate access tokens whenever the script is run

Config

There are currently two ways to configure the tool.

1. Through CLI parameters. Run python scripty.py -h to see the parameters and use them to provide the required parameters
2. Through a config file .conf located in the script folder. The file has the following structure and the parameters have the same names as the CLI parameters:

[DEFAULT]
client_id=<client id>
client_secret=<client secret>