Spotify playlist updater

Overview

This project provides a node command-line tool to update your Spotify playlists with the content of a file or by searching a whatsapp channel.

Features

• Extracts Spotify track IDs from whatsapp channel
• Extracts Spotify tracks from a text file
• Checks existing playlist for duplicates, only new tracks are added

Quickstart

pnpm i

# Fill your spotify credentials in .env
cp .env.template .env

# Authenticate to spotify
pnpm auth
# Loads tracks from whatsapp channel search
pnpm from-whatsapp
# Loads tracks from data file
pnpm from-file

Note

You need node to run this project, use the package manager of your taste

Spotify authentication

You need

• a Spotify account
• a Spotify app: You can follow the official guide to create an app and get your Spotify credentials from the dashboard.
• a playlist id: Copy the share link of the spotify playlist, the ID is the segment that follows the "playlist" argument in the URL (e.g., https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3JOifD0AGqnfwpyv6BN8mj?si=71551b92cc95402d).

Tip

The auth server is configured to use http://localhost:3000 as redirect url, use the same value in your Spotify app

Whatsapp authentication

When the script asks for authentication with a QR code, use the Whatsapp application on your phone to add a linked device.