spotish

download tracks and playlists on spotify;

install

install spotish with pip:

pip install spotish

usage

to use spotish, you need to create a spotify application:

1. go to https://developer.spotify.com/dashboard/applications and log in;

2. click create a client id;

3. fill in any name and description, then choose desktop app;

4. on next page, when asked are you developing a commercial integration?, choose no;

5. on next page, tick all boxes and click submit;

6. now the app is created; the app page lists its client id and client secret, which will be used when you run spotish; we also need a redirect uri, so click edit settings;

7. add http://localhost/callback/ in redirect uris; this uri will be used when you run spotish;

8. click save;

now we have a spotify username, a client id, a client secret and a redirect uri;

download tracks

to download saved tracks into the default out dir:

spotish --user {username} \
    --client-id {client_id} --client-secret {client_secret} \
    --redirect-uri {redirect_uri} \
    tracks

on first run, this will open a web browser and ask you to enter the redirect uri to authenticate; simply follow the instructions; this will generate a hidden cache file named .cache-{username} in current dir, containing spotify web api access token; later runs of spotish dont need authentication until the access token expires;

tracks are organized by their albums; both albums and tracks are named after their uuids; an album uuid contains total tracks in album, album uri and album name; a track uuid contains track number within the album, track uri and track name; album and track uris already guarantee uniqueness; however, uuids contain more information and are easier to visualize; by using uuids, tracks within an album are automatically sorted by their track numbers, which looks very nice;

to download saved tracks with more complete metadata and helpful progress text:

spotish --user {username} \
    --client-id {client_id} --client-secret {client_secret} \
    --redirect-uri {redirect_uri} \
    --output {dir} \
    --album-image --track-preview \
    --verbose \
    tracks

download playlists

to download saved playlists, use command playlists instead of tracks:

spotish --user {username} \
    --client-id {client_id} --client-secret {client_secret} \
    --redirect-uri {redirect_uri} \
    --output {dir} \
    --playlist-image --track-preview \
    --verbose \
    playlists

tracks are organized by their playlists, not albums; both playlists and tracks are named after their uuids; a playlist uuid contains playlist index, playlist uri and playlist name; a track uuid contains track index within the playlist, track uri and track name;

depend

spotish depends on:

• spotipy;

license

Copyright (c) 2012-2018 Cyker Way

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/.