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

• RPC API Documentation
• Rich Presence Documentation

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• This is due to an outdated library which tries to help with Windows support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) {