Hello, i made here a widget that displays the currently playing song on spotify using the Last.fm API.
Just create a Last.fm account, connect it to Spotify, create a developer account, and get an API key.
You’ll have to paste you user name and api key in the code.
I couldnt make the widget update more frecuently, if someone can just let me know.
//Replace "USER" with you last.fm user and "APIKEY" with the api key for your user.
let url = "http://ws.audioscrobbler.com/2.0/?method=user.getrecenttracks&user=USER&api_key=APIKEY&format=json&limit=1"
let req = new Request(url)
async function createWidget(nowPlaying) {
let widget = new ListWidget()
// load image
const coverArt = await loadImage(nowPlaying.recenttracks.track[0].image[3]["#text"])
widget.backgroundImage = coverArt
widget.addSpacer()
// set gradient background
let startColor = new Color("#1c1c1c19")
let endColor = new Color("#1c1c1cb4")
let gradient = new LinearGradient()
gradient.colors = [startColor, endColor]
gradient.locations = [0.0, 1]
widget.backgroundGradient = gradient
widget.backgroundColor = new Color("1c1c1c")
// add title and artist
let title = nowPlaying.recenttracks.track[0].name.toLowerCase()
// capitalize every first character
title = title.replace(/\b\w/g, function(c) {
return c.toUpperCase();
});
let titleTxt = widget.addText(title)
titleTxt.font = Font.boldSystemFont(12)
titleTxt.textColor = Color.white()
titleTxt.leftAlignText()
widget.addSpacer(2)
let artist = nowPlaying.recenttracks.track[0].artist["#text"]
// capitalize every first character
artist = artist.replace(/\b\w/g, function(c) {
return c.toUpperCase();
});
let artistTxt = widget.addText(artist)
artistTxt.font = Font.systemFont(10)
artistTxt.textColor = Color.yellow()
artistTxt.textOpacity = 1
artistTxt.leftAlignText()
widget.setPadding(8, 15, 10, 5)
widget.url = nowPlaying.recenttracks.track[0].url
return widget
}
// helper function to load and parse a restful json api
async function loadNowPlaying(coverArt) {
const req = new Request(url)
const json = await req.loadJSON()
return json
}
// helper function to download an image from a given url
async function loadImage(imgUrl) {
const url = imgUrl !== null ? imgUrl : placeholder;
const req = new Request(url)
const image = await req.loadImage()
return image
}
const nowPlaying = await loadNowPlaying()
const widget = await createWidget(nowPlaying)
Script.setWidget(widget)
Script.complete()
widget.presentSmall()
To test the stacks feature I built a SpotifyNow Playing widget. It uses the more complex Spotify Authorization Code Flow which is needed to access a user‘s playback information. The widget automatically refreshes expired access tokens. I also built a Siri Shortcut to simplify the initial setup.
Gist and setup instructions:
Caveat:
Even though it’s been a lot of work this widget is more a proof of concept. It will lag behind since it‘s not possible to force an update of widgets and only iOS alone will decide when to refresh.
Hi, I realise I have been a little quiet on here and missed some replies / questions.
I am working on a couple of ideas, in the meantime I have updated my reddit widget. The standard uses the old method, the new uses stacks and has links to open the post too.
The parameter is as follows:
apollo@scriptable@1@pic@4
The client to open @ the subreddit @ placeholder - this was for debugging @ whether to show pics (this is to be coded) @ How many entries - this will depend on font sizes ‘ verbosity of posts.
found it! just change the units parameter to “imperial” on line 81 as follows: weatherData = await new Request("https://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/onecall?lat=" + LAT + "&lon=" + LON + "&exclude=daily,minutely,alerts&units=imperial&lang=en&appid=" + API_KEY).loadJSON();
, that’s strange, since the function is declared near the end of the file.
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