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jlund / spotify-export

A simple Ruby utility that uses Spotify's Web API to export a playlist as plain text
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Question: is there a way to automate the copy/paste of playlists? #4

Open loicginoux opened 10 years ago

loicginoux commented 10 years ago

Hi, First thank you for your tool, really useful to have a backup of my playlists! I just have a question: Do you know if there is a faster way to copy paste the track URIs into the files? I have quite a lot of playlists and going into each of them, copy/pasting into a file is a bit painful. I didn't find a way to automate this task... Do you think this is possible? I tried to search into /Applications//spotify.app/Contents to see if I could find my playlists saved somewhere but I didn't find anything. Thanks. Good work.

cassdeckard commented 8 years ago

I know this is an old issue but I had the same question so I started looking into what it would entail, thinking that I could do a pull request if I figured it out.

The problem is that using the Spotify API to retrieve playlist data requires user authentication, which would add a lot of complexity to this script. Right now it's just using the tracks API which is unauthenticated. I don't really know why it requires auth to see playlists, but unfortunately it does.