Spot is a CLI tool used to talk to the Spotify API.

Spot currently has the following functionality built in

• Authenticate with Spotify to use their public API
• View currently playing track
• Pause currently playing track
• Play a paused track
• Restart the current track
• Go to the next track
• Go to the previous track
• Check to see if you are following the artist
• Follow the currently playing artist
• Unfollow the currently playing artist
• View the existing OAuth token

You can follow the instructions here to create a client ID.

Once you create your clientID, you will need to keep the clientID and the clientSecret to put in the configuration file.

Spot uses a yaml configuration file to store the oauth token, the Spotify clientID and client secret. This file is typically stored at ~/.spot/config.yaml. Here is an example file

spotify_access_token: xyz
spotify_access_token_expiration: 2020-05-22T12:00:00Z
spotify_client: xyz
spotify_refresh_token: xyz
spotify_secret: xyz
spotify_token_type: Bearer

The only required values to get started are spotify_client and spotify_secret. You will get those when you create your Client ID on Spotify's developer page.

The first time you run, you will need to run spot auth to get an access token and refresh token. They will be saved in your configuration file and stored for later use.