My Last Spotify Demo (this time I mean it – honest)

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Earlier this month, I blogged about building my own Spotify Unwrapped. I did this by requesting a data export from Spotify and playing around with the data in Python and Astro. I built a simple, and probably bad, Astro site to view my stats. When I built it, I had an idea for a slight tweak to make it a bit better, but one that would require API usage. I stand by what I said about not wanting to use the API anymore (feel free to ask why in the comments), but I couldn’t resist tinkering one more time. Here’s what I did. Using Python to Enhance Artist Info In the output from Spotify’s export, you get a detailed listing of the tracks you’ve listened to. As a reminder, here’s... more →
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Make Your Own Spotify Unwrapped

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Tis the season – the Spotify Unwrapped season. If you aren’t aware, Spotify creates a yearly "recap" of your listening habits and packages it up in a nice and fun slide show/animated doodad only available on your device. It’s a cute thing and as someone who both loves music and stats, I look forward to it. If your curious, here’s a part of mine: Earlier this week I knew Spotify Unwrapped was as eminent as Mariah Carey and I pondered building my own report. Of course, a few months ago I swore off building anything Spotify related again. But given that Spotify lets you export your data, in theory, I could build something without using APIs, right? Getting the... more →
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My First (and Last) Spotify Web App – Music Snob

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I’ve been a happy Spotify user for a few years now (I transitioned from Amazon Music after they cut features and generally ticked me off) and as I listen to music a lot, I’ve built a few integrations with their APIs over the years. Those integrations were simple tools that hit my own personal data and were just for fun, but I thought I’d take a crack at building a simple app with their Web API which would allow Spotify users to authenticate and see their own data. I built the app. But I 100% would not recommend working with the Spotify APIs going further. I’ll explain everything that went wrong, why I recommend this and so forth, but if you just want to see the app, scroll... more →
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