Discover Artists!

• Uses Spotify, YouTube, and Ticketmaster APIs.
• This app allows users to search for music artists and view detailed information about them.
• Search result displays artist name, profile picture, genre, top tracks, music video for top track, related events
• If an exact match isn’t found, the app will display the closest matching artist to the search term.
• Some information may not be displayed if it is not found from API.

To install and run

1. Set environment variables:

   • Spotify:

     • Create Spotify account and login to developer site.
     • Follow instruction from API documentation to see your Client ID and Client secret.
     • Add the following environment variables to your operating system:
     • SPOTIFY_ID : Your client ID
     • SPOTIFY_SECRET : Your client secret (click 'View client secret')

   • Youtube:

     • Create a YouTube account and a YouTube API key.
     • Create an environment variable named YOUTUBE_API_KEY which will hold your key.

   • Ticketmaster:

   • Flask:

     • Create a secret key python -c 'import secrets; print(secrets.token_hex())'
     • Add the generated key to an environment variable named SESSION_KEY

2. Create and activate a virtual environment

3. Install required packages - pip install -r requirements.txt

4. Run the application - python app.py

5. App will be running on http://127.0.0.1:5000

Tests

To run tests, use this command from the root directory of the project.

python -m unittest discover tests