What's playing Spotify Connect on display?

[Tim Curtis]

I've tweaked the spotevent.sh script to react to the changed event and not only to started/stopped, installed the python lib Spotipy on my moode player (quick and small) and wrote a small python script called by the spotevent.sh script and pass the spotify_id to it.
Now on every changed event, i have that kind of output (spotify_id, artist, album, song, url to coverart):
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Hi,
that's exactly what I was able to achieve a month ago, more or less. Though not with the python library, but just using curl (to parse open.spotify webpages) and sed to filter the output.

I didn't proceed to sending the output to the backend / frontend to be shown, but in reality that was the only thing that was left to do.

Depending on how big / heavy is the python thing (and how it is aimed at compatibility towards the soptify "API" could be a better choice...

I think the approach that queries spotify web pages takes several seconds to get the metadata but it could be redistributed with moOde.

The approach that uses a Spotify dev account gets the metadata directly and is pretty much instant but the dev account token prolly can't be redistributed due the dev license, correct?