postrocktues

Postrocktues

Postrocktu.es is a fantastic site for getting inspiration for new postrock artists and tracks.

I use it every tuesday(when new tracks are released) so I build this gem to get Spotify links from the tracks. Oh how awesome! Do you know what's even more awesome?! Creating a gorgeous Postrock playlist out of this, oh yeah

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'postrocktues'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install postrocktues

Usage

Setup

First of all, you need a Spotify premium account, if you don't have one pay up and get one! You'll thank me later!!

• Log into your account and get the appkey for this project to work. Consult the documentation here on how do do this.
• Place the app_key.key file in the root of this project
• Enter your Spotify credentials into the config.yml file, there is an example provided.
• Let's fire up irb/pry and get this working!

Some code examples!

require 'postrocktues'
feed = Postrocktues::Feed.new
tracks = feed.tracks
# This step unfortunatly takes a while..
# since it has to search for all of the tracks
track = tracks.last
track.name
#=> "Your Hand In Mine"
track.artist
#=> "Explosions in the Sky"
track.uri
#=> "spotify:track:2kZVhrdxG7BEIsyrTJYdq9"
track.url
#=> "http://open.spotify.com/track/2kZVhrdxG7BEIsyrTJYdq9"

Here's how you would create a playlist out of the tracks!

playlist = Postrocktues::Playlist.new
playlist.add tracks # tracks comes from the previous example
playlist.upload # uploads it to Spotify

Then just pop open Spotify and enjoy some glorious Postrock.

Note

Sadly, the whole creating tracks process is a bit slow. It currently takes ~30 seconds to load up all of the tracks. Since I first have to:

• Search for the tracks, remove tracks that can't be found
• Create track objects from the search result

It is a bit slow, but it's manageable! It will get faster, as soon as I figure out how..

Contributing

• Fork it
• Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
• Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
• Don't forget the tests! I won't accept a PR without any tests, sorry
• Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
• Create new Pull Request