Spotify Integration for Most Played Song of the Day

McKlayneMarshall

Integration with Spotify to pull in the most played song that day as a tag. When you click the tag, it opens Spotify to that song.

Diarium version: 2.9.43
Operating system: iOS 16.3

McKlayneMarshall

https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/#/operations/get-users-top-artists-and-tracks

timo

Unfortunately I don't see how to pull the most played song of the day. The documentation shows that it is possible to use a "time_range", but the "short_term" seems to be "approximately last 4 weeks".

McKlayneMarshall

I noticed that as well after reading the documentation. Here are a few other ideas.

Recently Played
https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/#/operations/get-recently-played

before/after would only include songs from today. 50 max and then do a count of unique songs, most played song on that day would be the tag.

Currently Playing
https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/#/operations/get-the-users-currently-playing-track

Have a tag option called Music. If a song is playing on Spotify, when the tag option "Music" is selected, it will pull in the song that is playing. Once again, this would be a little more manual on the user's end...because they would have to play the song they want to be pulled in, but I think it would work for those interested in this feature.

Saved Tracks
https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/#/operations/get-users-saved-tracks

Not sure, on average how many songs people save in a day, but you could pull in the maximum of 50 and see how many are from that date; putting in tags for each song.

timo

McKlayneMarshall Currently Playing

McKlayneMarshall Saved Tracks

Not sure if these APIs provide enough value to use them. I personally don't "save" many songs in Spotify and the inability to filer the returned data doesn't make them a good fit for Diarium.

McKlayneMarshall Recently Played

I have looked into this API a few months back, but if I remember correctly, there was a limitation that only the last 50 songs from now were returned, no matter what before timestamp was provided in the request. Those timestamps would just filter down the data set even more. But I will look into this again and see if that is still the case.
Edit: Looks like this limitation is still present today: https://community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-for-Developers/Now-that-users-can-view-their-recently-played-tracks-in-the-apps/td-p/5181981

timo

I am thinking of / planning to add "Last.FM" integration - this would also cover this feature request. You only would have to create a Last.FM account and connect it with your Spotify account. The advantage of Last.fm is that it can also connect to other music apps (YouTube, Soundcloud, deezer, Google Play Music etc).
Please check out this post to read about it and leave your comments

LuisOrtiz

Would be a cool feature

tse4ever

I think this would be a great feature! Last.fm isn't always accurate in showing what I've listened to and it kinda sucks that I have to share my data with yet another app. Plus having to be redirected to the website is annoying; I wish there was a way to see the songs directly within the app.

Apple journal has a great integration of Spotify where you can choose listened recently or media on repeat and see it within the app without having to click on a link.

timo

tse4ever Apple journal has a great integration of Spotify where you can choose listened recently or media on repeat and see it within the app without having to click on a link.

I did not see such a feature in the Apple Journal app. Can you show a screenshot or send a link where it's explained? How do I access the feature in the app?

tse4ever

timo

This is what it looks like in the journal app. It gives you different apps to pull from like photos and spotify is one of them. There's a listened to Spotify and media on repeat. And when you click on it, you can actually go through and select or deselect which songs you want to be included which is nice.

timo

How exactly would I get to this screen?
Is this the "journaling suggestion" picker? Diarium also supports that picker