Deprecated

In favor of Discord’s Spotify Connection.

spoticord `0.0.4`

Display your current Spotify song on Discord using the RPC API:

Dependencies

NodeJS >=8
npm (>=5) or Yarn (>=1.2)
Discord Canary (preferred)
Spotify >= 1.0
Git

Setup

Clone the repo git clone https://github.com/nations/spoticord.git
Install the modules npm i or yarn
Open Discord & Spotify
Start the RPC app node app.js

How to run in the background

Install pm2 npm i pm2 -g
Start the app pm2 start app.js --name="spoticord"
Use pm2 log spoticord to view the logs
Restart the app using pm2 restart spoticord

Updating

To update SpotiCord, enter the “spoticord” directory and run git fetch in your terminal.

FAQ

Q: Can I get banned or punished by Discord for using this?
A: No. The RPC was made by Discord themselves and Spoticord has been recommended by Discord staff

Q: I don’t see the progress bar, where’s it gone?
A: Make sure you’re using Discord Canary. Even still, Discord might remove this feature from time to time to update it since canary is a development version of Discord.

Q: Can I host this on an external server?
A: No, the Discord RPC api runs on your local Discord client, and unless you want to port forward a few things and create necessary firewall rules to do it, it’s not worth it. You’d have to repeat that with the Spotify web helper api, too.

Q: I’m not experienced with this scope of programming, are there any tutorials?
A: Yes! I found a few on YouTube:

    - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Gsop2h64Uo  
    - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTP2t6VgAv8  
    - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhQtXUH4jlU  
    - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rntn6Jg8cHk

Q: I found an obscure error not mentioned in the troubleshooting section, what should I do?
A: First, check the closed (and open) issues on this repo, we might have answered it there already. If not, create a new one with the WHOLE error and when it occurred (during start, runtime, etc). Thank you!

Useful links

Troubleshooting

It says the song is being updated but it isn’t being displayed on my profile?

Go to Discord settings
Go to “Games”
Make sure “Display currently running game as a status message” is ticked

Invalid token function (or something similar)

Make sure your node is updated, you need at LEAST version 8.0.0!

`stdout maxBuffer exceeded` or some XML/CSV parse error

This is due to an outdated library which tries to help with Windows support
Go to node_modules, go to wintools, go to lib
Open ps.js
On line 11, replace the whole line with:
exec('wmic process list /format:csv', {maxBuffer: 2000*1024}, function (err, stdout, stderr) {