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+# discord-nowplaying
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+shows the currently playing song using the spotipy lib by sending a webhook to a discord webhook
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+this script requires the following libraries:
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+  
+
+```
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+dotenv, spotipy.oauth2/SpotifyOAuth, spotipy, requests, os
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+```
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+  
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+in your spotify application in your developer portal, copy and paste your application secrets/variables into the .env file for the python code to run properly. please also create a discord webhook, and copy it into the `DISCORD_WEBHOOK_URL=""` of said file.
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+it should look like something similar to this when you run the code.
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+![image of content on discord.](https://git.rintyuu.dev/rintyuu/discord-nowplaying/raw/branch/main/image.png)
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+im too lazy to format this
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