Recently Played on Spotify README

If you want to show what you are listening to on Spotify on your GitHub profile, this is the way to do it.

Getting started

Create a Spotify application

• Go to the Spotify Developer Dashboard and log in with your Spotify account.
• Click on Create app and fill in the required fields.
• Click on Settings and add http://localhost:3000 as a redirect URI.
• Copy the Client ID and Client Secret.

Get a refresh token

• Replace the {CLIENT_ID} and {REDIRECT_URI} placeholders in the following URL with the values from your Spotify application.

https://accounts.spotify.com/authorize?client_id={CLIENT_ID}&response_type=code&redirect_uri={REDIRECT_URI}&scope=user-read-recently-played

• Open the URL in your browser and log in with your Spotify account.

• You will be redirected to http://localhost:3000/?code={CODE}. Copy the {CODE} value from the URL.

• Encode the {CLIENT_ID} and {CLIENT_SECRET} values from your Spotify application as a base64 string. You can use Base64Encode.org for this. The format should be as follows:

{CLIENT_ID}:{CLIENT_SECRET}

• Replace the {ENCODED_CLIENT_CREDENTIALS}, {CODE} and {REDIRECT_URI} placeholders in the following command with the values from your Spotify application. Run the command in your terminal.

curl -H "Authorization: Basic {ENCODED_CLIENT_CREDENTIALS}" -d grant_type=authorization_code -d code={CODE} -d redirect_uri={REDIRECT_URI} https://accounts.spotify.com/api/token

• If everything went well, you should get a response that looks something like this, containing your refresh token:

{
    "access_token": {YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN},
    "token_type": "Bearer",
    "expires_in": 3600,
    "refresh_token": {YOUR_REFRESH_TOKEN},
    "scope": "user-read-recently-played"
}

• Copy the "refresh_token" value.

Clone this repository

• Clone this repository to your local machine.

• Rename the .env.example file to .env.

• Replace the {SPOTIFY_CLIENT_ID}, {SPOTIFY_SECRET_ID} and {SPOTIFY_REFRESH_TOKEN} placeholders in the .env file with yours values.

SPOTIFY_CLIENT_ID=YOUR-SPOTIFY-CLIENT-ID
SPOTIFY_SECRET_ID=YOUR-SPOTIFY-SECRET-ID
SPOTIFY_REFRESH_TOKEN=YOUR-SPOTIFY-REFRESH-TOKEN

• Install the dependencies.

npm install

• Run the application.

npm run start

• If everything went well, you should see the following message in your terminal:

Server running at http://localhost:3000/api

Deploy the application

• Deploy the application to a server of your choice. I recommend Vercel.

• Make sure to set the SPOTIFY_CLIENT_ID, SPOTIFY_SECRET_ID and SPOTIFY_REFRESH_TOKEN environment variables in your settings on the server (In Vercel, you can do this in the Environment Variables section of your project settings).

• Copy your deployment URL.

Add the badge to your GitHub profile

• Add the following markdown to your GitHub profile README. Replace the {YOUR-DEPLOYMENT-URL} placeholder with your deployment URL.

![Recently Played Spotify]({YOUR-DEPLOYMENT-URL}/api)

• It should look something like this: