spotify-cli-linux 1.3.0

a command line interface to Spotify on Linux

spotify-cli-linux

A command line interface to Spotify on Linux.

This project is inspired by the similar project called shpotify, which does similar things, but on macOS.

View this project on PyPi at https://pypi.org/project/spotify-cli-linux/.

installation

sudo pip install spotify-cli-linux

upgrade

sudo pip install spotify-cli-linux --upgrade

usage

start the official Spotify desktop app

run the following command from your terminal:

spotifycli

use one of the following parameters:

-h, --help        show this help message and exit
--version         shows version number
--status          shows song name and artist
--statusshort     shows status in a short way
--song            shows the song name
--songshort       shows the song name in a short way
--artist          shows artists name
--artistshort     shows artist name in a short way
--album           shows album name
--playbackstatus  shows playback status
--play            plays the song
--pause           pauses the song
--playpause       plays or pauses the song (toggles a state)
--next            plays the next song
--prev            plays the previous song
--volumeup        increases sound volume
--volumedown      decreases sound volume

if you don't use any parameters, you'll enter the shell mode, when you'll be able to use all commands above

solving problems

When you've seen the following error:

No module named dbus

Then try to install python-dbus! On Ubuntu you can do it as follows:

sudo apt-get install python-dbus

If you are using another distro, then try to install python-dbus with your package manager.

usage with tmux

If you want to use this script in your tmux panel, you can check tmux-plugin-spotify.

code formatting

Source code should be formatted according to PEP8 style guides.

Install autopep8 and pycodestyle as follows:

pip install --upgrade autopep8
pip install --upgrade pycodestyle

Then run:

make format

to verify code formatting, type:

make check

docs

to update docs on gh-pages, type:

make docs

to run docs locally, type:

git checkout gh-pages
./serve.sh

and view page with docs at: 0.0.0.0:8000

releasing

configure your ~/.pypirc file as follows:

[distutils]
index-servers =
    pypi
[pypi]
username:yourusername
password:yourpassword

next, install twine:

pip install twine

then, update version in spotifycli/version.py and type:

make release