README

A CLI tool for controlling Spotify playback on any platform

Requirements

• PHP
• Spotify Premium
• Composer

Installation

Composer

$ composer global require danj/spotify-cli-remote

Oh, and ensure that your composer vendor/bin directory is in your PATH:

$ export PATH=~/.composer/vendor/bin:$PATH

Build from source

$ git clone https://github.com/danjohnson95/spotify-cli-remote

$ cd spotify-cli-remote

$ composer install

$ chmod +x spotify

And now put this directory in your PATH.

Usage

Authentication

First, you must authenticate the CLI remote with your Spotify account.

$ spotify login

You'll need to visit http://spotify-cli-remote.danjohnson.xyz to grant access, and you'll be redirected to a page displaying an authorisation code.

You will need to copy and paste this authorisation code into the CLI when requested.

Once authenticated, you can now control Spotify using your CLI!

Commands

spotify play      # Resumes/starts playback
spotify pause     # Pauses playback
spotify next      # Skips the current track
spotify prev      # Plays the previous track

What's the point?

I built this because I primarily work in a Windows environment with no media hotkeys. Switching over to the Spotify window was time consuming, and since I do pretty much everything else in the terminal, I figured controlling Spotify in the CLI would save me time. Hope it saves you time too.