Share Spotify Song on Slack

shareSpotifySongOnSlack.sh

#!/bin/bash
# From Here https://api.slack.com/custom-integrations/legacy-tokens
SLACKTOKEN=""

trap onexit INT

function reset() {
    echo 'Resetting Slack Status'
    curl -s -d "payload=$json" "https://slack.com/api/users.profile.set?token="$SLACKTOKEN"&profile=%7B%22status_text%22%3A%22%22%2C%22status_emoji%22%3A%22%22%7D" > /dev/null
}

function onexit() {
    echo 'Exitting'
    reset
    exit
}

date

while true; do
    state=$(osascript -e 'tell application "Spotify" to player state')
    if [[ "$state" != "playing" ]]; then
        if [[ "$PAUSE" = "0" ]]; then
            reset
            PAUSE=1
        fi

    else
        PAUSE=0
        SONG=$(osascript -e 'tell application "Spotify" to artist of current track & " - " & name of current track')
        URLSONG=$(echo "$SONG" | perl -MURI::Escape -ne 'chomp;print uri_escape($_),"\n"')

        if [[ "$OLDSONG" != "$SONG" ]]; then
            if [[ -n "$SONG" ]]; then
                echo "Spotify"
                echo "$state: "$SONG
                echo "Last Song: "$OLDSONG
                echo '------'

                OLDSONG=$SONG

                echo 'Updating Slack Status'

                curl -s -d "payload=$json" "https://slack.com/api/users.profile.set?token="$SLACKTOKEN"&profile=%7B%22status_text%22%3A%22"$URLSONG"%20%22%2C%22status_emoji%22%3A%22%3Aheadphones%3A%22%7D"  > /dev/null
            fi
        fi
    fi
    sleep 1
done

• perl -MCPAN -e shell
• yes - (for the "...configure automatically" question)
• install URI::Escape
• ...wait for it to finish...
• exit

You can have this run automatically on your mac using the native launchd system:

Creating the startup process

Drop the following PLIST into ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.user.slack-spotify.plist:

The filename must match the string under Label, replace /PATH/TO/SCRIPT.sh with an actual path to the .sh script above.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
    <dict>
        <key>Label</key>
        <string>com.user.slack-spotify</string>
        <key>ProgramArguments</key>
        <array><string>/PATH/TO/shareSpotifySongOnSlack.sh</string></array>
        <key>RunAtLoad</key>
        <true/>
        <key>StartInterval</key>
        <integer>60</integer>
    </dict>
</plist>