A SONG A DAY KEEPS THE BLUES AWAY

WHAT IS THIS?

A Twitter bot that brings you a fresh song daily based on a monthly theme.

SETUP

1- Clone the repo

• From the command line (aka the terminal) enter [email protected]:wearecolorcoded/song_selecta.git or fork it into your account with the button on the top right of the screen

• Cd into the directory cd song_selecta

2- Node and packages

• Make sure you have Node installed. If not, get it here
• Run npm install

3- API Credentials

• We are using dotenv to hide our environments variables so before you start the application, get your credentials:

  • On Twitter Register your app with your bots' account, not yours. Unless you wish to post songs from your account.

  • On Spotify

• Create a .env file, and add your credentials like so

clientId='SPOTIFY CLIENT ID GOES HERE'
clientSecret='SPOTIFY CLIENT SECRET GOES HERE'

CONSUMER_KEY='TWITTER CONSUMER KEY GOES HERE'
CONSUMER_SECRET='TWITTER CONSUMER KEY GOES HERE'
ACCESS_TOKEN='TWITTER ACCESS TOKEN GOES HERE'
ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET='TWITTER ACCESS TOKEN SECRET GOES HERE'

4- Use and Remix the app!

• Start the server by running npm start
• Open you Twitter bot's page
• Watch a song get tweeted

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