Post current playing Spotify song to a txt online (MacOS)

README.md

How to use it

$ curl -s https://gist.githubusercontent.com/rodolfo42/c4a04cb5757ffb4bac1a02db54a5fa07/raw/f90e69d91f01f4096d7dc4556f810a3853efde27/spotifynowplaying.sh > ~/spotifynowplaying.sh

Change the URL

Change URL to some dontpad.com url (it's a simple persistent textarea in the cloud)

URL=http://dontpad.com/some-url

$ chmod ugo+x ~/spotifynowplaying.sh
$ ~/spotifynowplaying.sh

To run in the background

$ ~/spotifynowplaying.sh > /dev/null &

spotifynowplaying.sh

#!/bin/bash
URL=http://dontpad.com/some-url
last_song=""

get_current_song() {
  # TODO Linux magic if the OS is Linux
  SONG_NAME=$(osascript -e 'tell application "Spotify" to name of current track as string')
  SONG_ARTIST=$(osascript -e 'tell application "Spotify" to artist of current track as string')
  SONG_ALBUM=$(osascript -e 'tell application "Spotify" to album of current track as string')
  echo -n "Song: $SONG_NAME | Artist: $SONG_ARTIST | Album: $SONG_ALBUM"
}

append_song() {
  SONGTEXT=$1
  TEXT=$(echo -e "$(date) | $SONGTEXT"'\n'"$(curl -s $URL.txt)")
  curl -o /dev/null -s -X POST $URL --data-urlencode "text=$TEXT"
}

while true; do
  SONG_STATUS=$(get_current_song)
  # echo "$(date) now playing: $SONG_STATUS"
  
  if [[ "$SONG_STATUS" != "$last_song" ]]; then
    last_song=$SONG_STATUS
    echo -e "$(date) changed now playing status to: $SONG_STATUS"
    append_song "$SONG_STATUS"
    echo "$(date) $SONG_STATUS" >> ~/spotify_status_history.txt
    echo "$(date) status changed. polling..."
  fi
  sleep 3
done 

Adapted from: https://gist.github.com/jgamblin/9701ed50398d138c65ead316b5d11b26