spotify-connect

Integrate Spotify analytics into your React application to provide real-time analytics. This guide demonstrates how to use the Spotify API to retrieve and parse data on the currently playing track in your React or React Server Components application.

npm i spotify-connect

Currently supported APIs

• Get currently playing track: Retrieve information about the track currently being played by a Spotify user.

  • Endpoint: https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/player/currently-playing

• Get recently played tracks: Retrieve the list of recently played tracks of a Spotify user.

  • Endpoint: https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/player/recently-played

Requirements

To get started, you'll need the following:

• client_id: Spotify app client ID
• client_secret: Spotify app client secret
• refresh_token: Spotify app refresh token. You can generate one as explained in various articles on the web. Example

Available Response Data Parsing Methods

The response from the Spotify API can be parsed using the following method:

parseCurrentTrack(data)

Returns:
{
  track: {
    id: item.id,
    name: item.name,
    artist: item.artists,
    album: item.album.name,
    image: item.album.images[0].url,
    duration: item.duration_ms,
    progress: progress_ms,
    uri: item.uri,
  },
  timestamp,
}

Usage

1. In the root of your application or wherever you want to use spotify-connect utilities, import the SpotifyConnectContextProvider.

<SpotifyConnectContextProvider
  clientId={SPOTIFY_CLIENT_ID}
  clientSecret={SPOTIFY_CLIENT_SECRET}
  refreshToken={SPOTIFY_REFRESH_TOKEN}
>

2. Now you can use the utilities in your components as follows.

  const { data } = useCurrentTrack()

  options: {
    refetchInterval: (milliseconds, default = 5000 or 5seconds)
  }