Making Spotify HTTP Proxy Switching Slightly Less Painful

A Spotify Proxy Switcher.md

These are two commands for switching the Spotify proxy on and off, as Spotify doesn't automate it for you. Also bundled are some aliases you can use to switch from the command line.

• Make sure you have your proxy settings set up and set to 'HTTP' or 'No Proxy'
• Download the two .command files
• Save them somewhere sensible
• Make sure they are executable (Move to the directory you saved them in and chmod +x Spotify_Proxy_Off.command Spotify_Proxy_On.command)

Now you can proxy switch from Spotlight by searching Spotify Proxy On and Spotify Proxy Off 🤗

The use of pgrep and pkill is not bulletproof but it is fast!

bash_profile

alias sproxon='
if pgrep -x "Spotify" > /dev/null
then
  echo "Spotify is running."
  spotify_kill; spotify_proxy_on && spotify_open
else
  echo "Spotify is not running."
fi'

alias sproxoff='
if pgrep -x "Spotify" > /dev/null
then
  echo "Spotify is running."
  spotify_kill; spotify_proxy_off && spotify_open
else
  echo "Spotify is not running."
fi'

alias spotify_kill='pkill Spotify'
alias spotify_open='open -a Spotify'
alias spotify_proxy_on='sed -i -e "s/network.proxy.mode=1/network.proxy.mode=2/" ~/Library/Application\ Support/Spotify/prefs'
alias spotify_proxy_off='sed -i -e "s/network.proxy.mode=2/network.proxy.mode=1/" ~/Library/Application\ Support/Spotify/prefs'

Spotify_Proxy_Off.command

if pgrep -x "Spotify" > /dev/null
then
  echo 'Spotify is running. Restarting.'
  pkill Spotify
  sed -i -e "s/network.proxy.mode=2/network.proxy.mode=1/" ~/Library/Application\ Support/Spotify/prefs
  open -a Spotify
else
  echo 'Spotify is not running.'
fi

Spotify_Proxy_On.command

if pgrep -x "Spotify" > /dev/null
then
  echo 'Spotify is running. Restarting.'
  pkill Spotify
  sed -i -e "s/network.proxy.mode=1/network.proxy.mode=2/" ~/Library/Application\ Support/Spotify/prefs
  open -a Spotify
else
  echo 'Spotify is not running.'
fi

Tnx for this.
Rewrote a couple of lines to make this switcher ping an internal network and put proxy on or off from the response.

#!/bin/bash
if ping -c 1 "some internal host" &> /dev/null
then
pkill Spotify
sed -i -e "s/network.proxy.mode=1/network.proxy.mode=2/" ~/Library/Application\ Support/Spotify/prefs
open -a Spotify
else
pkill Spotify
sed -i -e "s/network.proxy.mode=2/network.proxy.mode=1/" ~/Library/Application\ Support/Spotify/prefs
open -a Spotify
fi