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Spotify Playlist

Created a private Spotify playlist by scraping data from billboard. The date will be taken as input and the top 100 songs from that date will be created as a private playlist in our Spotify account.

Tech Stack - Python, BeautifulSoup, Spotipy API

1. Created a Spotify Developer Account

  • Signed up on Spotify Developers
  • Goto Dashboards -> Created a new App
  • In the app settings, added the REDIRECT_URI as http://127.0.0.1:8080/
  • Stored the spotify client ID, client secret, Redirect URI in environment variables.

2. Get the songs from Billboard

  • Scraped html data using BeautifulSoup from Billboard for the date given as input.

3. Search through Spotify to get the song URI

  • Created Spotify object with the required credentials.
  • Searched the songs through the URI, skipped if the song doesn't exist and stored them all.

4. Creating playlist

  • Created a playlist under the current user.
  • Added the stored songs to this playlist.

Reference
https://spotipy.readthedocs.io/en/2.13.0/

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