Introduction

"Python script to get notified of a random music to listen to, on Discord, using Spotify API and Discord Webhook."

Getting Started

Step 1: Set up a Discord Webhook

• Open your Discord server.

• Go to Server Settings > Integrations > Webhooks.

• Click "New Webhook" and customize it as you like.

• Copy the Webhook URL.

Step 2: Set Up Spotify API Access

• Create a Spotify Developer Account:

• Go to the Spotify Developer Dashboard and log in with your Spotify account. Create a New Spotify App:

• Click "Create an App" and fill in the required fields (App name, App description, etc)

• After creating the app, you'll receive a "Client ID" and "Client Secret." Save these credentials.

Get Access Token:

• Use the Spotify Web API Console or the Authorization Code Flow to get an access token.
• For simplicity, you can manually obtain a token via the Web API Console:
• Go to the Spotify Web API Console. Log in with your Spotify account and click "Get Token" to authorize and get an access token.

curl -X POST "https://accounts.spotify.com/api/token" \
     -H "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded" \
     -d "grant_type=client_credentials&client_id=your-client-id&client_secret=your-client-secret"

• replace the client_id and client_secret before sending the request to get your access token

Step 3: Preparing the Python Script

• Install required libraries

pip install requests

• copy the python script and make a new python file song-notifier.py

• Replace Placeholder Values

  Open the song-notifier.py file and replace

  client_id, client_secret,access_token and YOUR_DISCORD_WEBHOOK_URL

• you can always modify the genre e.g metal,rock,pop,rap,country e.t.c, to get recommended, genre specified songs

Running locally/cloud

• You can use Google Console , AWS or Heroku e.t.c
• "Instead, you choose to run it locally, create a cron job so that it can automatically run at specified intervals of time."

crontab -e

0 */8 * * * /usr/bin/python /home/samsep10l/Desktop/song-notifier.py

• to list cron jobs

crontab -l