GemFinder

I got mad at Spotify for not allowing me to rank tracks by stream counts inside album views.

Installation

• pip install -r requirements.txt;
• rename .env.example to .env;
• grab AUTH_TOKEN from a valid Spotify session;
• grab CLIENT_TOKEN from a valid Spotify Desktop installation (this one might be tricky, as you need to intercept their SSL traffic. Install a root CA like Charles or Burp Suite onto /usr/local/share/ca-certificates, run update-ca-certificates, configure your local proxy and sniff away);
• AUTH_TOKEN has a small lifespan so you might need to renew it from time to time or else app will explode into pieces when it tries to smoke a JSON and finds out it was a fat 401 in its face;
• brace yourself!

Usage

• flask run;
• head onto http://127.0.0.1:5000/;
• type a cool album you'd enjoy seeing stream stats;
• lots of room for activities. Did you expect the ranking to be what it actually is?
• you can grab 2 or 3 "lesser-than-the-albums-big-hit" tracks from a couple albums of an artist and compile into a kewl playlist!
• I even did one for John Frusciante and one for Múm as cool proof-of-concepts;
• if you're into foss, you can also help me understand how to transform this into a game where you'd try to guess the order, and then finding out how many did you get right;
• also, how do I host this thing? I'd love to get an easier demo to the world someday.

Preview