Spotify to Telegram Bio

Display your currently playing song from Spotify in your Telegram bio and/or as a channel message.

Installation

Clone the repository

$ git clone https://github.com/L4zzur/spotify-to-telegram.git

Go to the "spotify-to-telegram" folder

$ cd spotify-to-telegram

Create a virtual environment and activate it

$ python -m venv venv
$ source venv/bin/activate (or .\venv\Scripts\activate on Windows)

Install libraries using pip

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

Setting up

Telegram

1. Go to my.telegram.org
2. Authorize and click on API development tools
3. Create an application and set the web type (you can specify any names; we only need api_id and api_hash):

Don't share these tokens with anyone.

Spotify

1. Go to Spotify Dashboard
2. Log in and create a new application
3. Go to the created application, and then to settings
4. Change the Redirect URIs line to http://localhost:8888/callback

Don't share these tokens with anyone.

Python

1. Go to the script directory (step 2 from the installation)
2. Run the script to configure (check you're has (venv)):

$ python setup.py

3. Fill in all the necessary data that we received earlier, as requested by the script.
4. Authorize Telegram account in terminal by following the instructions.

5. After that, if you see empty line in the terminal and New login message from Telegram, stop the script with CTRL+C.

Run

1. Run script:

$ python main.py

2. Proceed with the Spotify authorization (need to be done only once, but you need active login on Spotify in browser).
3. Enjoy!

Installation on VPS/VDS

You can install the script on VPS/VDS using systemd insruction.