Updates your Slack status with the current artist and song title in Spotify

update-slack-status-from-spotify.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash

: "${SLACK_API_TOKEN:?Need to set SLACK_API_TOKEN environment variable}"

STATUS=$(/usr/bin/osascript <<"EOF"
if application "Spotify" is running and application "Slack" is running then
  tell application "Spotify"
    set currentArtist to artist of current track as string
    set currentSong to name of current track as string
    return currentArtist & " - " & currentSong
  end tell
else
  return "UNKNOWN"
end if
EOF
)

EMOJI=":musical_note:"

if [ "${STATUS}" = "UNKNOWN" ]; then
  STATUS=""
  EMOJI=""
fi

PAYLOAD='{"profile":{"status_text":"'${STATUS}'","status_emoji":"'${EMOJI}'"}}'

curl \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8" \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer ${SLACK_API_TOKEN}" \
    --data "${PAYLOAD}" \
    https://slack.com/api/users.profile.set >/dev/null 2>&1