A Script To Set Current Spotify Song As Slack Status

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README.md

Usage

0. Get API key here and put it into ./slackspotify.sh as an APIKEY value.

1. Copy the com.user.slack-spotify.plist file into ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.user.slack-spotify.plist

$ cp com.user.slack-spotify.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.user.slack-spotify.plist

2. Modify ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.user.slack-spotify.plist accordinally -- set path to your ./slackspotify.sh script.

3. Register this daemon with launchd by running

$ launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.user.slack-spotify.plist

4. Start it by either logging out and back in or running

$ launchctl start com.user.slack-spotify

6. (Optional) Modify your 'playing' emoji in ./data.json.

com.user.slack-spotify.plist

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
    <dict>
        <key>Label</key>
        <string>com.user.slack-spotify</string>
        <key>ProgramArguments</key>
        <array><string>/PATH/TO/SCRIPT.sh</string></array>
        <key>RunAtLoad</key>
        <true/>
        <key>StartInterval</key>
        <integer>60</integer>
        <!-- <key>StandardOutPath</key>
        <string>/PATH/TO/slackspotify-output.log</string>
        <key>StandardErrorPath</key>
        <string>/PATH/TO//slackspotify-errors.log</string> -->
    </dict>
</plist>

data.json

{
  "defined": {
    "text": "",
    "emoji": ":finn:"
  },
  "playing_emoji": ":spotify:"
}

slackspotify.sh

#!/usr//bin/env bash

set -eu

# Get your api key here https://api.slack.com/custom-integrations/legacy-tokens and puth it into .apikey file.
SCRIPT_DIR="$(dirname $0)"
APIKEY=$(cat "${SCRIPT_DIR}"/.apikey)

DATA="${SCRIPT_DIR}"/data.json
JQ_BIN=/usr/local/bin/jq

function post_status() {
    local payload="$(${JQ_BIN} -n -r --arg emoji "${1}" --arg text "${2}" '{"profile":{"status_text":$text,"status_emoji":$emoji}}')"
    curl -s \
        -H "Content-type: application/json; charset=utf-8" \
        -H "Authorization: Bearer ${APIKEY}" \
        -d "${payload}" \
        https://slack.com/api/users.profile.set >/dev/null
}

function current_slack_status() {
    curl -s "https://slack.com/api/users.profile.get?token=${APIKEY}" | ${JQ_BIN} -r '{ text: .profile.status_text, emoji:  .profile.status_emoji }'
}

function echo_state() {
    osascript -e 'tell application "Spotify" to player state'
}

function echo_song() {
    osascript -e 'tell application "Spotify" to artist of current track & " - " & name of current track'
}

function maybe_save_current_status() {
    local playing="$(${JQ_BIN} -r '.playing_emoji' ${DATA})" 
    local status=$(current_slack_status)
    local emoji="$(echo "${status}" | ${JQ_BIN} -r '.emoji')"
    local text="$(echo "${status}" | ${JQ_BIN} -r '.text')"

    if [[ "${playing}" != "${emoji}" ]]; then 
        local new=$(${JQ_BIN} -n -r --arg text "${text}" --arg emoji "${emoji}" --arg playing "${playing}" '.defined.text = $text | .defined.emoji = $emoji | .playing_emoji = $playing')
        echo "${new}" > "${DATA}"
    fi
}

is_spotify_running() {
    ps aux | grep -v grep | grep -v slackspotify | grep -c spotify >/dev/null
}

function main() {
    date
    maybe_save_current_status
    if ! is_spotify_running; then 
        echo "Spotify is not running on this machine."
        exit 0
    else
        echo "Spotify is "$(echo_state)"."
    fi

    if [[ "$(echo_state)" != "playing" ]]; then
        post_status "$(${JQ_BIN} -r '.defined.emoji //empty' ${DATA})" "$(${JQ_BIN} -r '.defined.text //empty' ${DATA})"
    else
        post_status "$(${JQ_BIN} -r '.playing_emoji //empty' ${DATA})" "$(echo_song)"
    fi
}

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