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Spoify-Playing-Serverless

Serverless azure function to supply now playing from a given spotify user in JSON format.

Setup

Spotify

Create a Spotify Application
Take note of:
- Client ID
- Client Secret
Click on Edit Settings
In Redirect URIs:
- Add http://localhost/callback/

Refresh Token

Navigate to the following URL:

https://accounts.spotify.com/authorize?client_id={SPOTIFY_CLIENT_ID}&response_type=code&scope=user-read-currently-playing,user-read-recently-played&redirect_uri=http://localhost/callback/

After logging in, save the {CODE} portion of: http://localhost/callback/?code={CODE}
Create a string combining {SPOTIFY_CLIENT_ID}:{SPOTIFY_CLIENT_SECRET} (e.g. 5n7o4v5a3t7o5r2e3m1:5a8n7d3r4e2w5n8o2v3a7c5) and encode into Base64.
Then run a curl command in the form of:

curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded" -H "Authorization: Basic {BASE64}" -d "grant_type=authorization_code&redirect_uri=http://localhost/callback/&code={CODE}" https://accounts.spotify.com/api/token

Save the Refresh token

.env config

Create the file local.settings.json in the format of:

{
  "IsEncrypted": false,
  "Values": {
    "spotify_client_id": "<<application client id>>",
    "spotify_client_secret": "<<application client secret>>",
    "spotify_refresh_token": "<<user generated refresh token>>",
    "FUNCTIONS_WORKER_RUNTIME": "node"
  }
}

Refer to https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-functions/create-first-function-vs-code-node on how to build and deploy this project locallly or on azure.

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