spotifytools

An simple js application making use of the Spotify Web API.

Accessible at http://spotify.simonandersson.co.uk

Install Instructions

• clone
• Install npm and node
• Change lines 15-17 in app.js to your spotify application keys and URI
• Run node app.js

Current functionality:

• Image grid of artists. (5-50 with names on hover)
• List of artists names (5-50)
• Calculates the genres with the highest occurance in the top 50 artists. (5-100)
• Show and hide the above
• Target system is a desktop/laptop

Technologies

• node.js
• jquery/js/html/css
• deployed on heroku

Plan

Plan is to add some more data visualisations and let you download them as images/files

Credit

Started from this app:

https://github.com/spotify/web-api-auth-examples

Inspiration for the idea:

http://lastfm.dontdrinkandroot.net/

I wanted to have an alternative stats viewer so that I can abandon lastfm altogether. There are some issues with the spotify API and it's quite limited, but they have plans to relax some of the restrictions.