spotisampled

a program that creates a new playlist of samples used by tracks/other tracks sampling tracks in a given spotify playlist using data from a beautifulsoup-facilitated web scrape from whosampled.

prior requirements

this program requires the requests, spotipy and beautifulsoup libraries.

download the requests library using the command line:

python -m pip install requests

download the spotipy library using the command line:

pip install spotipy --upgrade

and download the beautifulsoup library using the command line:

pip install beautifulsoup4

setup & usage

download this repository using the command line:

git pull https://github.com/josephquismorio/spotisampled.git

setting up the secrets file

the file secrets.py contains slots for your application client ID, client secret, and your personal spotify username. fill those slots out accordingly. you can create an application at the spotify developer dashboard here.

upon logging in, you are greeted with a... dashboard. click "create an app" and you should see a little menu asking for a name and description for your app - you can name this app whatever you want.

next, find the section labeled "client ID". you should see a link just below it reading "show client secret" - click on it, and the client secret should show. copy both the client ID and client secret and paste it into the secrets.py file.

finally, fill in the username slot with your username, and you should be good as far as the secrets go!

running whosampled

run the spotisampled.py file using:

python3 spotisampled.py

or

python spotisampled.py

upon running the file, you will be prompted to input a playlist URL (make sure this is in the format "https://open.spotify.com/playlist/playlist-name"):

Please enter playlist URL: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/playlist-name

after this is completed, you should see a bunch of command lines that lay out all the tracks in your given playlist:

Playlist given: 

Dynamite! by The Roots
No More Parties In LA by Kanye West
Crime Pays by Freddie Gibbs
...

wait a little bit, and...

boom! you should have a new playlist containing all the whosampled-ripped samples that could be found on spotify. there also should be a closing message that gives a list of the songs that were unable to be found by the program:

New playlist created! Unable to find:
Indiana by Zoot Sims and Bucky Pizzarelli feat. Buddy Rich
Give Me My Love by Johnny Guitar Watson
Free Spirit by Walt Barr
...