prateekkumaroriginal / musical-time-machine

Musical Time Machine

This Python program creates a Spotify playlist of the Billboard Hot 100 songs for a specific date.

Setup

1. Clone the repository or download the Python file.
2. Install the required libraries using pip.
3. Obtain the necessary credentials:

• Spotify: Create a Spotify developer account and create an application to obtain the CLIENT_ID, CLIENT_SECRET, and REDIRECT_URI. Set the REDIRECT_URI as a valid redirect URI for your Spotify application.

4. Set the environment variables:

• CLIENT_ID: Your Spotify application's client ID.
• CLIENT_SECRET: Your Spotify application's client secret.
• REDIRECT_URI: Your Spotify application's redirect URI.

Usage

1. Run the Python script in your terminal or IDE.
2. Enter the date you want to travel to in the format YYYY-MM-DD when prompted.
3. The program will scrape the Billboard Hot 100 songs for the specified date from billboard.com.
4. It will authenticate with Spotify using your provided credentials.
5. The program will search for each song on Spotify and retrieve the track URI.
6. It will create a new private Spotify playlist with the name [travel_date] Billboard 100 (e.g., 2023-06-06 Billboard 100) if it doesn't already exist.
7. Finally, the program will add the retrieved song URIs to the playlist.

Note

Ensure that your Spotify account has the necessary permissions to create private playlists and modify your playlists.

Tech Stack

Language: Python
Libraries: spotipy, BeautifulSoup, requests, datetime, and os

API's

Spotify Web API - spotipy uses Spotify Web API behind the scenes.