What's playing Spotify Connect on display?

[TheOldPresbyope]

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?

What are you saying, that the python library does in fact login and get a token for API requests, with dev "privileges"...?

Hi, Al.

Quoting from the Spotipy docs

All methods require user authorization. You will need to register your app at My Dashboard to get the credentials necessary to make authorized calls (a client id and client secret).

 
"My Dashboard" links to https://developer.spotify.com/dashboard


Regards,
Kent