Spotify Download Automation

This python script helps the users to export all songs from Liked Songs playlist into a different playlist and/or download all songs from their Liked Songs playlist from the website Spotmate using Selenium automation with Firefox's Geckodriver. In this script we have also used uBlock Origin extension addon since popups and ads can hinder with the automation process.

Alternative (Please Read This First)

We know that there are other options out on the internet to download playlists. However, the main reason for creating this script is to be able to download songs from the Liked Songs since it does not come with a sharing link related to it. We have modified the script to add all the songs in users Liked playlist to a new playlist with the name 'Save'. After that the users can use the sharing link of this new playlist to download songs from third-party applications like Spotify Downloader. Users first need to create a new playlist in their account with the name 'Save'.

This comes as the default with the script and is recommended, however, if users would still like to run the Webdriver automation provided in the script to download their songs, all they need to do is comment out the lines of code from line 105 to 127 from the source code and then run the script. (Select the lines from 105 to 127 then press CTRL+/ to comment lines).

CAUTION: If you run the script multiple times it will add duplicates of all the songs in the 'Save' playlist, please be careful.

Run Locally

Download and install Firefox browser from here.

Download and add PATH to Geckodriver, Downlaod Link here, Youtube tutorial to add PATH for Webdrivers here. Place the Geckodriver inside the 'webdrivers' folder which you have added to PATH.

Download and install Python following the instructions from here.

Installing Python should automatically install 'pip' but in case it does not, you can install it manually following the instructions from here.

Open the terminal by pressing 'Win+X' then 'I'.

Clone the project

  git clone https://github.com/riAs-g/Spot-Down.git my-project

Go to the project directory

  cd my-project

Install Flask, Spotipy and Selenium

  pip install flask spotipy selenium

Before you start the server, you'll need to do the following:

• Login to Spotify Developers website with your spotify account. Go to user dashboard and create an new app. Fill in the required details, Redirect URIs as: http://127.0.0.1:5000/redirect , and check the Web API checkbox and save.

• After creating the app, click in the app and go to Settings. From here copy your Client ID and Client Secret.

• Then you will need to make the following changes in your project:

  In the below lines of code highlighted with purple, put the file path to geckodriver and ublock origin respectively. To copy path to any file, right click on the file and then click on copy path. Please note that python uses double '/' instead of single '/' so users must modify accordingly after pasting the path in place.

In the below lines of code highlightedm with purple, replace the '1000' with the number of songs in your liked playlist.

In the below lines of code highlightedm with purple, put the Client Id and Client secret that you got from Spotify Developers app.

Start the server

  python Spotdown.py

After starting the server, click on the local address given in the console. It will take you to the login page in your browser. After you login the script will start downloading your songs. NOTE: Do not close the browser window or stop the server or else the download will stop too. After the script is done downloading, it will show completed message in the browser window or an error message if there was an error. You can stop the server by pressing CTRL+C in the terminal twice.

Acknowledgements

• Medium
• Katia Gilligan Tutorial
• Katia Gilligan Repo
• Spotmate
• Spotify Downloader

FAQ

• Spotmate and Spotify Downloader are not hosted or managed by us. This script only allows users to automate the lengthy process of downloading potentially hundreds of songs. The method of extracting and downloading all songs belong to the owner of Spotmate and Spotify Downloader.

• Users are responsible for their actions and potential legal consequences. We do not support unauthorized downloading of copyrighted material and take no responsibility for user actions.

• The list of all your liked songs URLs will be stored in JSON format in the project folder after the script finishes executing in the file named 'data.json'. Note that the songs in the JSON file will be based in the value of the variable 'i' set the last time the script was run and the number of times the while loop was run.

• In tne rare case any particular song is not found, the script will throw an error if you're using webdrivers for downloading with the number of the last song downloaded by the script printed in the console. In order to continue downloading you'll need to replace the below highlighted in purple number with the number of the last song downloaded by the script printed in the console plus 1.

  

  Please note that this method for bypassing the error is not tested by anyone at the moment. If there are any other queries or errors that you may not be able to figure out the solution for by youself, please feel free to contact me.