MusicMate is a free and non-profit browser extension autonomously locating nearby concerts by artists you're listening to on Spotify. It helps you catch "early bird" tickets, which can be up to 90% cheaper than standard.
The app features desktop notifications, reminders and direct links to tickets saving you time for things that really matter.
This repository contains the client-side Google Chrome extension written in Vue Js.
As it stands Spotify's Web API, does not provide Websockets support, meaning that the only way to keep a track of what's currently being listened to is by periodically sending HTTP requests. With more than a few users constantly issuing requests apps using Spotify's Web API quickly reach API rate limits. It's a well-known issue, which creates challenges to developers, who wish to leverage real-time knowledge of the user's currently listened tracks.
To tackle this issue this app uses a custom algorithm, written based on the song skipping dataset, which alternates the app between 4 cycles to reduce the number of sent API requests and make it more scaleable.
The algorithm can be found in src/store/actions/engine.js whilst the cycle times reside in src/common/constants.js.