Birthday Playlist Generator

[!IMPORTANT] This project has not worked for a while due to breaking changes with JSON Bin and the Spotify API upon which it depends.

I am in the process of rewriting this app in Svelte, see here: https://github.com/mattmarch/birthday-playlist

Check out my blog post about the making of this project.

This is an app to automatically generate a Spotify playlist of songs which have reached UK number one on your past Birthdays. There are 2 parts to this project:

Web app

This is a React app which upon entering your Birthday will provide you with a playlist of UK number ones. You have the ability to authorize with Spotify to get more track information including cover art, and a button which will automatically turn the list into a Spotify playlist.

The chart data is queried from JSONBin (see the chart parser) and is filtered within the React application. Authorization with Spotify is via the Implicit Grant flow as detailed here. The app can then use the access token received from Spotify to match up the tracks with tracks on Spotify (performing a separate search for each track), and displays the Spotify track name and album art in a list.

The app is deployed to Github pages, via a Github action ("Github pages deploy") which is triggered on pushing changes to master which affect the app directory.

OfficialCharts Parser

This is a short Python script which can be run to scrape the latest chart info from OfficialCharts. If run with a -u argument the data will be uploaded to JSONBIN.io to be used by the web app.

The parser is run by the "Run update data script" Github action.