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Spotify playlist collaboration through Slack.

slackbox

Spotify playlist collaboration through Slack. Brought to you by the lovely people at Benchmark.

Simply create a Slash Command, such as /jukebox, which accepts a track name (also the artist too for a less fuzzy search) to add to a pre-defined Spotify playlist:

/jukebox Bell Biv DeVoe – Poison

##Installation

First you'll want to create your Slack Slash Command, which you can do by going to your Slash Commands page.

During setup, have your slash command submit a POST to your app's /store endpoint, e.g. https://app-name.herokuapp.com/store.

Make a note of the token, as you'll need it later to help guard against cross-site request forgery.

###Spotify

Head over to Spotify's Developer Site and create a new Application. Make sure you add whatever slackbox's callback URI as a valid callback URI. If you're running locally, this will be http://localhost:5000/callback or on Heroku https://app-name.herokuapp.com/callback

Make a note of the key, secret and callback URI too, as you'll need these later as well.

Also, don't forget to make a playlist. If you do this through Spotify's web interface then the playlist identifier will be the last segment of the URI - make a note of this too! If there's a better way of finding this out, we're all ears. If you do this through the app, right-click the playlist to get it's web URL and again, you need the last segment of the URI.

###Environment variables

Once you've cloned slackbox or hit the "Deploy with Heroku" button you'll need to setup the following environment variables. These can either be stored in a .env or set up as config variables in Heroku.

• SLACK_TOKEN - The token from Slack's Slash Command.
• SPOTIFY_KEY - Your Spotify application key (a.k.a Client ID).
• SPOTIFY_SECRET - Your Spotify application secret (a.k.a Client Secret).
• SPOTIFY_USERNAME - Your Spotify username.
• SPOTIFY_PLAYLIST_ID - Your playlist identifier.
• SPOTIFY_REDIRECT_URI - URI to redirect to once your user has allowed the application's permissions.

###Authentication

Visit your slackbox's home page to authenticate yourself with Spotify and you should be all set!