v1.6

Features and Improvements:

• NEW: Detection of Spotify username changes
• NEW: Support for YouTube Music search URLs
• IMPROVE: Displaying last update date of user's profile pic when using -i parameter
• IMPROVE: Added info to email notifications for playlists with errors

Bug fixes:

• BUGFIX: Fixed bug with wrong number of user owned public playlists if there are none

v1.5

Features and Improvements:

• NEW: Possibility to disable detection of changes in user's public playlists (new -q / --do_not_monitor_playlists parameter)
• NEW: Possibility to disable email notifications for changed followers/followings (new -g / --disable_followers_followings_notification parameter)
• IMPROVE: Recently played artists limit increased from 15 to 50 + info about the limit in the output
• IMPROVE: Indentation + linting fixes

Bug fixes:

• BUGFIX: Fixed issue with missed playlists changes notifications in case of intermittent Spotify API issues
• BUGFIX: Fixed bug with wrong CSV file event entry name
• BUGFIX: Fixed issue with Spotify API sometimes returning wrong info that all user's playlists have been removed

v1.4

Features and Improvements:

• NEW: Added new parameter (-z / --send_test_email_notification) which allows to send test email notification to verify SMTP settings defined in the script
• IMPROVE: Better handling of newly created / empty playlists
• IMPROVE: Better handling of situations when user removes all public playlists
• IMPROVE: Showing how much time passed since last playlist update in case all tracks are removed
• IMPROVE: Possibility to define email sending timeout (default set to 15 secs)

Bug fixes:

• BUGFIX: Fixed an issue of the tool crashing when user had no playlists and created a new one
• BUGFIX: Fixed "SyntaxError: f-string: unmatched (" issue in older Python versions
• BUGFIX: Fixed "SyntaxError: f-string expression part cannot include a backslash" issue in older Python versions

v1.3

Features and Improvements:

• NEW: Support for honoring last-modified timestamp for saved profile pics (it turned out it reflects timestamp when the picture has been actually added by the user); if you used previous version of the tool, remove the profile pic for the user and let the new version of the tool to re-download it with original modification time which will reflect the time when user actually changed the profile picture
• IMPROVE: File suffix (-y) honored for JSON and profile picture JPEG file names as well
• IMPROVE: get_short_date_from_ts() rewritten to display year if show_year == True and current year is different, also can omit displaying hour and minutes if show_hours == False; new version of function is used when number of tracks changes for the playlist (which might happen after a year, can't it ? 😉)
• IMPROVE: Support for float type of timestamps added in date/time related functions

Bug fixes:

• BUGFIX: Fix to handle situations when user removes track from playlist, but it is not the last track
• BUGFIX: Escaping of exception error string fixed

v1.2

Features and Improvements:

• NEW: Feature allowing for detection of changed profile pictures; since Spotify user's profile picture URL seems to change from time to time, the tool detects changed profile picture by doing binary comparison of saved jpeg files; initially it saves the profile pic to spotify_{user_uri_id}_profile_pic.jpeg file after the tool is started (in monitoring mode); then during every check the new picture is fetched and the tool does binary comparison if it has changed or not; in case of changes the old profile picture is moved to spotify_{user_uri_id}_profile_pic_old.jpeg file and the new one is saved to spotify_{user_uri_id}_profile_pic.jpeg and also to file named spotify_{user_uri_id}_profile_pic_YYmmdd_HHMM.jpeg (so we can have history of all profile pictures); in order to control the feature there is a new DETECT_CHANGED_PROFILE_PIC variable set to True by default; the feature can be disabled by setting it to False or by enabling -j / --do_not_detect_changed_profile_pic parameter
• NEW: Feature attaching changed profile pics directly in email notifications (when -p parameter is used)
• NEW: Feature allowing to display the profile picture right in your terminal (if you have imgcat installed); put path to your imgcat binary in IMGCAT_PATH variable (or leave it empty to disable this functionality)
• IMPROVE: Improved detection of tracks changed for the playlist; previously if the number of added and removed tracks was the same it went unnoticed by the tool; currently the tool also compares last update timestamp of the playlist to cover such use cases
• IMPROVE: The tool now shows the time which passed since the previous time new track has been added to the playlist (console + email notifications)
• NEW: Possibility to define output log file name suffix (-y / --log_file_suffix)
• IMPROVE: Information about log file name visible in the start screen
• IMPROVE: Rewritten get_date_from_ts(), get_short_date_from_ts(), get_hour_min_from_ts() and get_range_of_dates_from_tss() functions to automatically detect if time object is timestamp or datetime
• IMPROVE: Detection of wrong Spotify user URI ID + unneeded while loop removed

Bug fixes:

• BUGFIX: Fixed stupid bug with the tool crashing when user had no public playlists at all
• BUGFIX: Fixed issues with sporadic broken links in HTML emails (vars with special characters are now escaped properly)

v1.1

Features and Improvements:

• IMPROVE: Improvements for running the code in Python under Windows
• NEW: Automatic detection of local timezone if you set LOCAL_TIMEZONE variable to 'Auto' (it is default now); requires tzlocal pip module
• IMPROVE: Information about time zone is displayed in the start screen now
• IMPROVE: Better checking for wrong command line arguments
• IMPROVE: pep8 style convention corrections

Bug fixes:

• BUGFIX: Improved exception handling while processing JSON files

v1.0

Initial spotify_profile_monitor v1.0 release. Features:

• Real-time monitoring of Spotify user profile changes:
  • added/removed followings and followers
  • added/removed public playlists
  • added/removed tracks in playlists
  • playlists name and description changes
  • number of likes for playlists
• Email notifications for different events (added/removed followings, followers, public playlists and its tracks, playlists name and description changes, number of likes for playlists, errors)
• Additional functionalities on top of the monitoring mode allowing to display detailed info about the user, list of followers & followings, recently played artists and possibility to search user names for user URI ID
• Saving all profile changes with timestamps to the CSV file
• Clickable Spotify, Apple Music and Genius Lyrics search URLs printed in the console & included in email notifications
• Possibility to control the running copy of the script via signals

RELEASE NOTES:

Features and Improvements:

• NEW: Feature to search for user names (-s) to get user URI ID
• NEW: Possibility to define SP_DC_COOKIE via command line argument (-u / --spotify_dc_cookie)
• IMPROVE: Fetching only public playlists owned by the user (ignoring playlists of other users added to user's profile)
• IMPROVE: Showing delta info (+N or -N) when informing about changed number of followers/followings/playlists/tracks
• IMPROVE: Information about user's profile URL put in different parts of the code
• IMPROVE: Possibility to configure limits for list of playlists (PLAYLISTS_LIMIT) and recently played artists (RECENTLY_PLAYED_ARTISTS_LIMIT) fetched from user's profile
• IMPROVE: Additional search/replace strings to sanitize tracks for Genius Lyrics URLs
• IMPROVE: Email sending function send_email() has been rewritten to detect invalid SMTP settings
• IMPROVE: Strings have been converted to f-strings for better code visibility
• IMPROVE: Info about CSV file name in the start screen
• IMPROVE: Small refactoring of functions processing playlists and its tracks to improve performance (it is still quite slow in case of huge number of playlists/tracks)
• IMPROVE: In case of getting an exception in main loop we will send the error email notification only once (until the issue is resolved)

Bug fixes:

• BUGFIX: Handling situations when user changes the playlist's visibility to private (previously the tool crashed)
• BUGFIX: Handling situations when JSON files storing info about followers, followings or playlists get corrupted (previously the tool crashed)