Spotify Mac API
HTTP API to control a spotify player on Mac OS. This is useful if you want to write scripts to control the music in your office from Hubot
Running the API server
$ npm i -g spotify-mac-api
$ spotify-mac-api -p 3344 -s myWonderfulSekretMaking your server publicly available
Use ngrok to expose the server on the web
$ ngrok http 3344API endpoints
Security
Currently there is a rather basic shared secret used to control access, pass the secret param with all requests. You can set this when running spotify-mac-api -s MySharedSecret
POST /(play/pause/toggle)
Toggles play/pause
POST /next
Plays the next track and returns the next tracks name.
POST /prev
Plays the previous track and returns the previous tracks name.
POST /playing
Returns the currently playing tracks name
POST /mute
Toggles muting the volume
POST /search?type=track&query=mr%20brightside
type - track, artist, album or playlist query - the search query
Returns response text to queue up a play
POST /play/track/:name
name - name of the song to find and play
POST /play/artist/:name
name - name of the artist to find and play
POST /play/album/:name
name - name of the album to find and play
POST /play/playlist/:name
name - name of the playlist to find and play
POST /play/queue/:id
id - ID of the song to play from search results
Inspiration
Inspired by Hubot-spotify
License
Copyright (c) 2015 Alternate Labs Ltd
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