Description

Spotify wrapped is awesome. Looking back and seeing what your most played songs were throughout the year is so much fun. I wanted these insights into my listening history throughout the year. I wanted to be able to capture a complete picture of my music taste at that moment.

Project Layout

This project has a few different components that are important to discuss, let's take a look at each...

Harvesting Listening Data

In order to keep track of what songs I am listening to I am going to use Spotify's API which allows you (with the proper Authentication) to query for the last 15 song's that you listened to. Since we can only query for 15 songs at a time we are going to need to repeat this process on a loop so that we can capture our complete listening data. We are going to use a node.js server hosted on an AWS EC2 instance to do this. It is going to handle the initial OAuth authentication Spotify, refreshing our access token as is necessary, making API calls to Spotify to gather listening data, storing new songs in our song database, and storing each listen in our listens database.

Making Data Available

In order for the data to be available to the front-end we need to host a set of api's each of which provides a different data set to the front-end. In order to host these APIs I am using a combination of AWS Lambda Functions with AWS API Gateway.

Front End

The front end of this application is built with React, TailwindCSS, and Framer Motion. I have hosted the front end with Vercel since it is free. I am using axios to make requests to the backend for data.