NowPlay-Box

💿 Pinnable Dynamic Gist showing your Spotify now-playing as a Widget!

📌✨ For more pinned-gist projects like this one, check out: https://github.com/matchai/awesome-pinned-gists

Project hugely inspired by https://github.com/RangerDigital/neko-box

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NowPlay-Box is a simple GitHub Action built to make dynamic Gist displaying the album you're now-playing on Spotify .

Usage

To start, you need to prepare some things:

• Create a new public GitHub Gist at https://gist.github.com/

• Create an Access Token with the gist scope and save it. You can do that at https://github.com/settings/tokens/new

After getting this done:

• Fork this repository.

• Go to your fork's Settings > Secrets page add the following secrets:

  • SPOTIPY_USER_ID - Spotify Username
  • SPOTIPY_CLIENT_ID - Spotify client ID taken from Spotify API
  • SPOTIPY_CLIENT_SECRET - Spotify client secret taken from Spotify API
  • SPOTIPY_REDIRECT_URI - Callback URL for OAuth
  • SPOTIPY_REFRESH_TOKEN - A Spotify refresh token for your account (see below)
  • GH_TOKEN - The access token you saved earlier.
  • GIST_ID - The ID of your newly created public Gist.

  It will look like this:
  https://gist.github.com/<username>/<hugecode>.

Getting a refresh token Run this once on your own machine, approve access in the browser, and save the printed value as the SPOTIPY_REFRESH_TOKEN secret:

pip install spotipy
python -c "from spotipy.oauth2 import SpotifyOAuth; from spotipy.cache_handler import MemoryCacheHandler; a=SpotifyOAuth(client_id='<id>', client_secret='<secret>', redirect_uri='<redirect uri>', scope='user-read-currently-playing', cache_handler=MemoryCacheHandler()); print(a.get_access_token(as_dict=True)['refresh_token'])"

Never commit the .cache* token files spotipy creates.

That's It!
Now every 10 minutes schedule.yml workflow will update your Gist

📃 License

This project is licensed under GPL-3.0 .