learning-spotify-tui

About

Create a Basic Spotify Controller within a Terminal User Interface (TUIs). The primary focus was on using Bubble Tea, and Bubbles to learn about the components available and how they interact with each other

References

• https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea
• https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbles
• https://github.com/charmbracelet/lipgloss
• https://github.com/zmb3/spotify
• ChatGPT4

Technologies

• Go
• Bubble Tea
• Bubbles
• Lip Gloss
• VSCode + Vim Extension

How to get the Spotify Client ID and Spotify Client Secret

• Log into https://developer.spotify.com/
• After Log in, and then click on Dashboard
• Click on Create app
• Specify the App name, App description, Website
• For the Redirect URIs, specified http://localhost:8080/callback, which is same as seen in main.go
• Select Web API and Web Playback SDK
• After creating the app, Select the given app
• Click on Basic information
• Click on View client secret
• Copy the Client ID and Client Secret value
• Paste them in some file .env.spotify
• Ensure those are exported as SPOTIFY_CLIENT_ID and SPOTIFY_CLIENT_SECRET so that it can be used within the program

# .env.spotify
export SPOTIFY_CLIENT_ID=""
export SPOTIFY_CLIENT_SECRET=""

How to use

# To install the go libraries
go mod tidy

# To load the spotify client id, and spotify client secret
source .env.spotify

# To run the program
go run *.go

# Then Click on the URL, to login and provide the OAuth Token

Things to try out

• Searching through playlists
• Searching through tracks
• Using Refresh Token, instead of logging into the URL constantly