README.md

Spotify News

A Flask app (Python 3) to retrieve the singers' latest news according to your Spotify current playing song.

Configuration

Register an application with Spotify Developer, then export CLIENT_ID, CLIENT_SECRET and REDIRECT_URI as environment variables:

$ export CLIENT_ID='<CLIENT_ID>'
$ export CLIENT_SECRET='<CLIENT_SECRET>'
$ export REDIRECT_URI='http://localhost:5000/callback'

Usage

1. To install app dependencies, simply run:

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

2. Start the app at localhost:5000:

$ python app.py

Docker

Dockerfile is also provided. To run this app in a container, just simply install Docker first, then:

1. Build the docker image:

$ docker build -t tsoliang/spotify-news .

2. Pass the environment variables to Docker container then start the container and expose the container port to local port 5000:

$ docker run -d -p 5000:5000 \
             -e CLIENT_ID='<CLIENT_ID>' \
             -e CLIENT_SECRET='<CLIENT_SECRET>' \
             -e REDIRECT_URI='http://localhost:5000/callback' \
             tsoliang/spotify-news

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