Yo dawg we heard you like songs so we got you to send us some letters to get back a playlist.
Dev challenge for a job application which tests API creation and consumption.
Send a query string of letters and you will get back a playlist of songs from Spotify which start
with the same letters. For example if your query string is cool you could get back:
"Chinook - Dakota",
"Open Your Eyes - Remastered - Nalin & Kane",
"Old Skin - Ólafur Arnalds ft. Arnór Dan,
"Loreley - Kölsch",
python3.6
A Spotify developer account and a registered app.
From there store your client ID and client secret into the following environment variables:
CLIENT_ID
CLIENT_SECRET
You may also wish to add a certificate to avoid insecure connection warnings to the Spotify API. I
use the Python library certifi for this.
git clone https://github.com/declankeyesbevan/spotify-my-words.git
cd spotify-my-words
pip3 install virtualenv
virtualenv env
. env/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
export PYTHONPATH=`pwd`
Start the Flask app from the runner.
chmod a+x run_my_dawg.py
python run_my_dawg.py
Using your HTTP tool of choice (I like Postman, but you can use a browser) send a GET to
localhost with a query string like the following:
http://0.0.0.0:5000/secretmsg?msg=cooly/ 56b>'"@ HDasj4952304[]`6hdch
Anything that is not a letter will be ignored and what is left will be lower-cased so this will
resolve to coolybhdasjhdch. Anything longer than 30 valid characters will also be ignored.
Or if you like the command-line:
curl -X get http://0.0.0.0:5000/secretmsg?msg=coolmessagebro