Instructions for running SXSWFinder
This needs to be run on Python 2.X
FOR FIRST USE: In order to properly use, need to create a spotify developer account, create an app, and obtain a client_id and a client secret. Be sure to add the URI link below to the redirect links in the settings of the the app dashboard.
- Open terminal, and navigate to where main.py is stored.
- type: python main.py
- (OPTIONAL) add a “> out.txt” without the quotations to the above command in order to pipe the output to a text file.
- Authorize access if prompted, and copy the link it redirects you to. It should look like http://localhost…
- Paste that link into the command line. Once done, you should not have to do this again.
- Follow the prompts given in the terminal to get desired output.
Instructions for running the SXSW Website scraper
- python scrape.py > sxswscrape.txt
- You may need to update the "url" variable depending on which year you are using this. You can just modify the year in the link, but it doesn't hurt to check.
- The current pushed sxswscrape.txt is current as of 2/17/17. Feel free to update it as needed.
The current list of SXSW Artists is current as of 2/17/17. Some artists that are listed differently on the website or have symbols(&,ect.) in their name may not be found.