jberkel-spotify-api

Spotify-API

I got tired of waiting for Spotify to release their API (if they release it), so decided to roll my own based on the awesome work done by #hack.se (despotify) and Felix Bruns who created a Java port of despotify called jotify. Add JRuby, Sinatra and some glue to the mix and you (almost) have an API.

Important: in order to use this API you'll need a premium spotify account! This API is as unofficial as it gets and NOT supported by Spotify in any way.

At the moment the following features are implemented:

• searching [GET /(albums|tracks|artists)?name=Foo]
• list user's playlists [GET /playlists]
• get shared playlist [GET /playlist/id]
• create new playlist [POST /playlists]
• update playlists [PUT /playlists/id]

Installation

Prerequisites: Java 6+, JRuby 1.3.x.

$ jruby -S gem sources -a http://gems.github.com # (you only have to do this once)
$ jruby -S gem install jberkel-spotify-api
$ jruby -S spotify-api-server --account login:password
== Sinatra/0.9.4 has taken the stage on 3000 for development with backup from WEBrick
[2009-08-04 01:21:03] INFO  WEBrick 1.3.1
[2009-08-04 01:21:03] INFO  ruby 1.8.6 (2009-07-24) [java]
[2009-08-04 01:21:03] INFO  WEBrick::HTTPServer#start: pid=12162 port=3000

$ curl http://localhost:3000/playlists | jsonpretty
{
  "result": {
    "playlists": [
      {
        "name": "my shiny playlist",
        "author": "jberkel",
        "url": "http:\/\/open.spotify.com\/user\/jberkel\/playlist\/5EXLGE7HPVPjvlxPmIfrDe",
        "revision": 2,
        "id": "b9fe3dcf88945d146ef18117faa61ab4",
        "tracks": [
          {
            "artist": "Elmore Judd",
            "title": "Disco In 4 Pieces",
            "url": "http:\/\/open.spotify.com\/track\/1VaucR6Bsks5Q9bYBsXvuF",
            "id": "3f2752a98dd947c5855278a88159d7b1",
            "album": "Insect Funk",
            "popularity": 0.325379997491837
          },
          {
            "artist": "40winks",
            "title": "Goodmorning (intro)",
            "url": "http:\/\/open.spotify.com\/track\/6qHiOf1BFCQIzAjJsRbMfY",
            "id": "d34a3a6daeed4f93983068e4e8c26cd6",
            "album": "Sound Puzzle",
            "popularity": 0.170609995722771
          }
        ],
        "collaborative": false
      }
    ]
  },
  "status": "OK"
}
	

See examples directory for usage.

Credits

Contains code from the jotify project:

Copyright (c) 2009, Felix Bruns [e-mail] All rights reserved.

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