AM2Slack

A mini script to update your Slack status with the song currently playing on Apple Music on macOS.

Features:

• Shell script to run on your Mac Terminal.
• Constantly running with custom execution frequency.
• Custom status expiration time.
• Does not update if current Slack status is in custom whitelist.
• If no music is playing, status is cleared.
• Editable random emojis that are selected each time your status changes.

Usage

1. Clone the repository
2. Go to api.slack.com/apps and press "Create New App". Select the workspace and give it a name.
3. With the app created, go to "OAuth & Permissions". Now under "Scopes" add these User Token Scopes: users.profile:write, users.profile:read.
4. Scroll to the top and click "Install/Reinstall to Workspace".
5. Copy the User OAuth Token and paste it next to API_KEY in the .env.example file.
6. Go to your AM2Slack.py file then copy its path and paste it next to PROGRAM_DIR.
7. Tweak the .env.example file as desired and rename it to .env when done.
8. Make the script executable by running the following command in your terminal chmod +x AM2Slack.sh.
9. (Optional but recommended) Create a virtual environment.
10. Install project dependencies pip install -r requirements.txt
11. Make sure watch command is installed. If it's not, install it with brew install watch
12. Run the program with ./AM2Slack.sh