🎶 Your top Spotify tracks in a GitHub Gist!

This project is based on spotify-box, it uses Ruby with minor modifications instead of JavaScript.

Usage

1. Create a new public GitHub Gist (https://gist.github.com/).
2. Create a token with the gist scope and copy it. (https://github.com/settings/tokens/new).
3. Create a Spotify Application, detail steps you can see below.

Get Spotify Refresh Token

1. Create new Spotify Application

• Visit https://developer.spotify.com/dashboard/applications and create a new application, after creating your app, you will get your Client ID & Client Secret.

• Then click EDIT SETTINGS Button, add http://localhost:3000 to Redirect URIs.

2. Get Authorization Code

• Visit following URL after replacing $CLIENT_ID with yours.

https://accounts.spotify.com/en/authorize?client_id=$CLIENT_ID&response_type=code&redirect_uri=http:%2F%2Flocalhost:3000&scope=user-read-currently-playing%20user-top-read

• Agree to this application to access your info, after that your will be redirect to a new page.
• URL: http://localhost:3000?code=$CODE, the $CODE is your Authorization Code, it will be used to generate access_token at next step.

3. Get Access Token

• Use the $CLIENT_ID and $CLIENT_SECRET from step 1, $CODE from step 2 to replace the shell command below.

curl -d client_id=$CLIENT_ID -d client_secret=$CLIENT_SECRET -d grant_type=authorization_code -d code=$CODE -d redirect_uri=http://localhost:3000 https://accounts.spotify.com/api/token

• After that run it at your terminal, you'll get your $REFRESH_TOKEN. The output will be like this:

{
  "access_token": "BQBi-jz.....yCVzcl",
  "token_type": "Bearer",
  "expires_in": 3600,
  "refresh_token": "AQCBvdy70gtKvnrVIxe...",
  "scope": "user-read-currently-playing user-top-read"
}

• If the response didn't return refresh_token, back to step 2 and retry.

If you are going to use it with GitHub Actions please do not skip Environment Variables section.

Environment Variables

• See .env.example.

License

This repository is licensed under the Apache License 2.0.