statify: a status script for spotify showing art and track info in the terminal

statify

#!/bin/bash
# Who23 Github

# A script to display current spotify track info in a small terminal window
# this includes art, track name, and artist. All art/text centered

# BUILT TO WORK WITH MACOS, iTERM, & SPA (https://gist.github.com/Who23/8ff45f0f2c2c3ae8a95582178a5c92ec)
# for linux:
# iTerm is needed for the image display protocol, can work with another terminal if you change the image protocol to one 
# supported by that terminal
#
# statify can use sp, but the commands will need to be swapped from spa -> relevent sp commands

# Copyright 2020 Aditya Shrivastava
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# width in columns of the terminal window
WIDTH=27

prev_info="\n"

# shhh
printf "\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n"
while true;
do
    #  polls spa every 10 secs to see if the track has changed
    if [[ $prev_info != $(spa info) ]]
    then
        # move the cursor and draw the track art
        printf "\033[200D\033[8A"
        b=$(curl -s $(spa art) | base64)
        printf "\033[$((WIDTH / 4))C\033]1337;File=inline=1;width=auto;height=7"
        printf ":$b"
        printf "\a\n\033[23D"

        # get the track/artist & get how many spaces needed to center the text
        track_name="$(spa name | cut -c -$((WIDTH - 2)))"
        artist_name="$(spa artist | cut -c -$((WIDTH - 2)))"
        track=${#track_name}
        artist=${#artist_name}
        track=$((WIDTH - track))
        artist=$((WIDTH - artist))
        track=$((track / 2))
        artist=$((artist / 2))

        # print the centered track name
        printf "\033[2K"
        for i in $(eval echo "{1..$track}"); do printf ' '; done
        printf "$track_name\n"

        # print the centered artist name
        printf "\033[2K"
        for j in $(eval echo "{1..$artist}"); do printf ' '; done
        printf "$artist_name"

        prev_info=$(spa info)
    fi
    sleep 10
done

So if i have the Spotify app on my macOS it will display what song i am currently listening to where? The terminal?

yup! this script requires iterm2 for displaying the song cover art. just execute the script and you'll get a little 'now playing' thing in your terminal