Spotify Connect Device Picker Script

Presents a list of available Spotify Connect devices to direct output to.

$ python spotify-connect-device-picker.py
[1]   Kitchen Echo
[2]   Living Room
[3]   Living Room Echo
[4] * picon
Select player index: 3
Selected 'Living Room Echo'

You can provide a device name as the first argument and it'll be used to set the device (if it's a valid device name), e.g.:

$ python spotify-connect-device-picker.py Living\ Room
Selected 'Living Room'

If you need to just list the available players, use -l as the first argument:

$ python spotify-connect-device-picker.py -l
Kitchen Echo
Living Room
Living Room Echo
picon

Requirements

• Python 3.6
• Depends on spotipy (pip install spotipy)
• Spotify API app ID and secret - create one at https://developer.spotify.com/my-applications
• Spotify Premium account
• Some Spotify Connect devices to send your music to

Configuration

Requires values for the following environment variables:

• SPOTIFY_USERNAME - username of the Spotify account (must be a Premium account)
• SPOTIPY_CLIENT_ID - Client ID of your Spotify API application
• SPOTIPY_CLIENT_SECRET - Client Secret of your Spotify API application
• SPOTIPY_REDIRECT_URI - URL to redirect to after authorization (doesn't need to be real, but should ideally be a site under your control so you don't leak credentials)

On the first run, the app will open a page to authorize itself against your Spotify account, allow it access and you'll be redirected to the URL specified in the SPOTIPY_REDIRECT_URI environment variable. Paste the URL you were redirected to from the browser into the terminal, and it'll save tokens to a hidden file in the current folder named .cache-<username>.

To logout, trash the .cache-<username> file.