spoticli

Command line utility for controlling Spotify devices

Features

• Play/pause active device playback locally or remotely using p, play, or pause
• Set active device volume using vol
• Get output of currently playing track using np
• Search for songs and albums using search or s
• Play specific songs or albums using play query or by sending the output of a search
• Skip to the next or previous songs using next and previous
• Add a song to the play queue using queue or q

In development:

• First-time usage script that sets the device the script is running on for seamless playback start, as well as the option to write Spotify username/developer data to disk rather than having to create a credentials file on your own.

Installation

Requires spotipy, which can be installed using

sudo pip install git+https://github.com/plamere/spotipy.git --upgrade

Which is required to use the most recent features, since the pip version of spotipy is outdated.

Once that is installed, clone the repository and run using python spoticli.py, or alias to whatever you may find useful.

Sample Commands

Display the currently playing track:

$ python spoticli.py np
Twenty One Pilots - My Blood

Pause playback on the active device:

$ python spoticli.py pause
Paused playback on jacob-pc

Set active device volume:

$ python spoticli.py vol 50
Set volume on jacob-pc to 50%