examples/example-listing_playlists.rb
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
# encoding: utf-8
require_relative "support"
session = Support.initialize_spotify!
username = Support.prompt("Please enter a username", "burgestrand")
# libspotify has no way of searching for users by name or e-mail, so
# this is the only way I know of to get a handle of a user from nothing,
# and probably won't work for users that do not have a classic Spotify
# username, i.e. users that only signed up through Facebook.
#
# If you can get a handle on a playlist created by that user, you'll be
# able to get the handle for them, but not otherwise!
#
# For users that signed up through Facebook only, I believe their Facebook
# user ID should work with this lookup.
user_link = "spotify:user:#{username}"
link = Spotify.link_create_from_string(user_link)
if link.null?
$logger.error "#{user_link} was apparently not parseable as a Spotify URI. Aborting."
abort
end
user = Spotify.link_as_user(link)
$logger.info "Attempting to load #{user_link}. Waiting forever until successful."
Support.poll(session) { Spotify.user_is_loaded(user) }
display_name = Spotify.user_display_name(user)
canonical_name = Spotify.user_canonical_name(user)
$logger.info "User loaded: #{display_name}."
$logger.info "Loading user playlists by loading their published container: #{canonical_name}."
container = Spotify.session_publishedcontainer_for_user_create(session, canonical_name)
$logger.info "Attempting to load container. Waiting forever until successful."
Support.poll(session) { Spotify.playlistcontainer_is_loaded(container) }
$logger.info "Container loaded. Loading playlists until no more are loaded for three tries!"
container_size = 0
previous_container_size = 0
break_counter = 0
loop do
container_size = Spotify.playlistcontainer_num_playlists(container)
new_playlists = container_size - previous_container_size
previous_container_size = container_size
$logger.info "Loaded #{new_playlists} more playlists."
# If we have loaded no new playlists for 4 tries, we assume we are done.
if new_playlists == 0
break_counter += 1
if break_counter >= 4
break
end
end
$logger.info "Loading…"
5.times do
Support.process_events(session)
sleep 0.2
end
end
$logger.info "#{container_size} published playlists for #{display_name} found. Loading each playlists and printing it."
container_size.times do |index|
type = Spotify.playlistcontainer_playlist_type(container, index)
playlist = Spotify.playlistcontainer_playlist(container, index)
Support.poll(session) { Spotify.playlist_is_loaded(playlist) }
playlist_name = Spotify.playlist_name(playlist)
num_tracks = Spotify.playlist_num_tracks(playlist)
# Retrieving link for playlist:
playlist_link = Spotify.link_create_from_playlist(playlist)
link_string = if playlist_link.nil?
"(no link)"
else
Spotify.link_as_string(playlist_link)
end
$logger.info " (#{type}) #{playlist_name}: #{link_string} (#{num_tracks} tracks)"
end
$logger.info "All done."