Spotify bar in GitHub ReadMe

Imported from https://github.com/akellbl4/spotify-badge

If you want to share your love to music with the world you are in right place. You can share cunrrently playing track from you Spotify just with an image.

👆 press on the image to go to the track on Spotify music link

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Features

🎸 playing now - current state of track with real-time progress bar
🎬 ended state – when track is ended badge transitions to this state
⏸ paused state - when current track is paused in player
📭 idle state – not playing
🔗 link to track – you can click on the badge and go to the track on Spotify (requires additional configuration)

How to use

Create an Spotify application for authentication

• Go to Spotify Developer Dashboard and log in with your Spotify account
• Click Create An App
• Fill the name and description of new app and click Create.
• Click Show Client Secret.
• Copy Client ID and Client Secret we will need it a bit later.

Deploy an application to Vercel

• Open this link for deploy app to Vercel
• Click Continue on Clone Git Repository screen
• Choose where you want to save code on Create Git Repository and Vercel will fork this repo automatically
• Click Continue on Import Project screen
• Put Client ID to SPOTIFY_CLIENT_ID and Client Secret to SPOTIFY_CLIENT_SECRET and put just - to SPOTIFY_REFRESH_TOKEN.
• Click Deploy

Get Refresh Token

• When application is deployed go to Dashboard
• Copy your domain with prod label of your application
• Go back to Spotify Developer Dashboard
• Open application
• Click to Edit Settings
• Add path to auth page /api/auth. It should looks like this https://spotify-playing-now-readme-eight.vercel.app/api/now-playing-link/api/auth
• Put the url Redirect URI and click Add
• Save changes with click to Save in end of the form
• Open new tab on the browser and go to url which you put in Redirect URI. The url should looks like this https://spotify-playing-now-readme-eight.vercel.app/api/now-playing-link/api/auth
• Copy Refresh token and put to the application settings on Vercel
• Go to Deployments page and redeploy the last deployment of your application on Vercel
• Everything is done!

check out to get refresh tocken with cli: https://benwiz.com/blog/create-spotify-refresh-token/

snippet

You can copy this snippet and change domain in the url to domain of your application and post it wherever you would like

<a href="https://spotify-playing-now-readme-eight.vercel.app/api/now-playing-link" target="_blank">
  <img src="https://spotify-playing-now-readme-eight.vercel.app/api/now-playing" >
</a>