syncify-py 2.0.0

Spotify track and playlist metadata library

🚀 Syncify

Syncify is a Python library + CLI that fetches Spotify track and playlist metadata directly from open.spotify.com pages — great for quick metadata lookups, playlist introspection, and tooling where you don’t want to wire up OAuth.

Heads up: Syncify scrapes Spotify’s web UI (via Selenium). Selectors can break if Spotify updates their site.

✨ Features

• Track metadata: title, artist, cover image URL, and track ID from a track URL
• Playlist metadata: playlist title, cover image URL, playlist ID, and all track URLs
• CLI-first: run syncify <url> or python -m syncify ...
• Auto-detect URLs: mix track + playlist URLs in one command
• No OAuth setup: does not require Spotify API keys/tokens

🧠 How It Works

• Input: Spotify track/playlist URLs (https://open.spotify.com/track/..., https://open.spotify.com/playlist/...)
• URL detection: a lightweight regex-based detector determines whether each URL is a Track or Playlist
• Extraction:
  • Tracks: Selenium loads the page and extracts title/artist/image from page elements
  • Playlists: Selenium loads the page, scrolls through the track list, and collects every track link
• Output:
  • Library: returns dataclasses (TrackDetails, PlaylistDetails)
  • CLI: prints a readable summary plus playlist track URLs

🛠 Tech Stack

• Language: Python
• Automation/scraping: Selenium (headless Chrome)
• Driver management: webdriver-manager (fallback if Selenium driver resolution fails)
• HTML parsing (small helper): BeautifulSoup4
• HTTP: requests

📦 Installation

Prerequisites

• Python: 3.9+ recommended (packaging allows older, but tested targets are 3.9–3.12)
• Google Chrome installed (used by Selenium)

Install from PyPI (recommended)

pip install syncify-py

Then use:

• CLI: syncify ...
• Python import: from syncify import ...

Install from GitHub (recommended)

pip install "git+https://github.com/adelelawady/Syncify.git"

Install locally (for development)

git clone https://github.com/adelelawady/Syncify.git
cd Syncify
pip install -e ".[dev]"

Install from source tree (non-editable)

pip install .

⚙️ Configuration

Syncify has no required environment variables.

Runtime requirements

• Chrome available on PATH / installed normally
• Chromedriver is handled automatically via Selenium’s driver resolution, with a fallback to webdriver-manager.

Troubleshooting

• If Selenium can’t start Chrome:
  • Ensure Chrome is installed and up to date.
  • Try upgrading Selenium and webdriver-manager:

pip install -U selenium webdriver-manager

• If playlist results are incomplete:
  • Spotify’s UI loads tracks lazily; the scraper scrolls, but very large playlists may take longer.

🚀 Usage

As a library

from syncify import get_track, get_playlist

track = get_track("https://open.spotify.com/track/5nJ4Zzqc2UjwSaIcv7bGjx")
print(track.track_title, "-", track.artist_title)
print(track.track_image_url)

playlist = get_playlist("https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5YOevUTnavVClJ0hAslu0N")
print(playlist.title)
print("Tracks:", len(playlist.track_urls))
print(playlist.track_urls[:5])

As a CLI

After installation, you can use either:

• syncify ... (console script), or
• python -m syncify ... (module execution)

# Auto-detect URL type (track or playlist)
syncify https://open.spotify.com/track/5nJ4Zzqc2UjwSaIcv7bGjx
syncify https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5YOevUTnavVClJ0hAslu0N

# Explicit type
syncify --track https://open.spotify.com/track/...
syncify --playlist https://open.spotify.com/playlist/...

# Multiple URLs (mixed types supported)
syncify <url1> <url2> <url3>

CLI flags:

syncify --track <URL>
syncify --playlist <URL>
syncify <URL> [URL ...]

📡 API Reference

get_track(url: str) -> TrackDetails

Fetch metadata for a Spotify track URL.

Field	Type	Description
spotify_url	str	Original Spotify URL
track_id	str	Spotify track ID
track_title	str	Song title
artist_title	str	Artist name
track_image_url	str	Cover image URL

get_playlist(url: str) -> PlaylistDetails

Fetch metadata for a Spotify playlist URL.

Field	Type	Description
playlist_url	str	Original Spotify URL
playlist_id	str	Spotify playlist ID
title	str	Playlist title
playlist_image_url	str	Cover image URL
track_urls	list[str]	Track URLs in the playlist

📂 Project Structure

Syncify/
├─ syncify/
│  ├─ __init__.py              # Public API exports
│  ├─ __main__.py              # CLI: `python -m syncify` / `syncify`
│  └─ spotify/
│     ├─ Spotify_track_info.py
│     ├─ Spotify_playlist_info.py
│     ├─ utils.py
│     └─ __init__.py
├─ main.py                     # Convenience script wrapper
├─ pyproject.toml              # Modern packaging + dependencies
├─ setup.py                    # Legacy packaging (mirrors pyproject)
├─ requirements.txt            # Dev-friendly requirements list
└─ README.md

🧪 Development

git clone https://github.com/adelelawady/Syncify.git
cd Syncify
python -m venv .venv

# Windows PowerShell
.venv\Scripts\Activate.ps1

pip install -e ".[dev]"

# Run the CLI against a URL
python -m syncify https://open.spotify.com/track/<id>

Suggested checks:

python -c "from syncify import get_track; print(get_track('https://open.spotify.com/track/<id>').track_title)"

🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome!

• Bugs/requests: open an issue with a minimal repro (URL + expected vs actual output)
• PRs:
  • Keep changes focused and include a clear description
  • Prefer small, well-scoped improvements to selectors and parsing logic
  • Avoid committing local artifacts (.venv/, build/, syncify.egg-info/)

If you’re adding new scraping logic, please include:

• A sample Spotify URL (track/playlist) that the change targets
• A note about which DOM selectors were relied on and why

📜 License

MIT (as declared in package metadata).

Tip: consider adding a top-level LICENSE file so GitHub can display the license automatically.

⭐ Support

If you find Syncify useful, please star the repo — it helps others discover the project and motivates continued maintenance.