Every time you run npm start again, the script will check if there are new tracks that have not been added to the playlist yet. This should have added the first tracks to your playlist already.

They contain the secret information to authenticate the user with spotify, so handle with care! Now you find two new files: accessToken and refreshToken. This will open a page on localhost which you can close. Open the displayed URL in your browser & grant permission for your app to change your playlists.Run npm start (stationIdentifier is the name of the playlist config inside your config file.).Some radio stations (like the old FM4 page) have special markup that requires linear instead of nested search this behaviour can be set with the searchLinear flag. You can define your own schemes, all you need is the URL of the playlist page of the station and three jQuery selectors: one for the playlist entry element, one for the title and one for the artist. There are some pre-defined and tested radio stations, they can be found in station-examples.md. You can obtain a clientId & clientSecret by registering a new application. Copy to config.json and insert your own credentials & playlistIds for your desired radio stations.My bot happily accepts new followers on his profile and on his playlists! Usageīefore running it on the server you need to authenticate via oAuth (as the user who owns the specified playlist) locally. DemoĬurrently running hourly via cronjob on this playlistĪctually you find a growing list of playlists from multiple radio stations being crawled by the spotify account RadiolistenerBot.Īll those playlists are public. More on the background of this project in my blog post. Putting the latest tracks from a radio station with online trackservice (like this one) onto a spotify playlist by crawling the radio website. SpotifyRadioPlaylist SpotifyRadioPlaylist Get the latest tracks from a radio station and put them on a spotify playlist.

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