libman

Libman is an interactive spotify shell.

Features

• Control your spotify playback.
• Edit playlists.
• Fully complies to the spotify web api terms of usage.
• Set aliases for commands.
• Execute commands from a file during startup.
• No need for premium.
• Simple to get started, comfortable to use.
• Has context aware in-application tab completions!
• Import and export your playlists as json.

Authors Note

Libman is still in development stages, the usage won't change but a lot of new features are on their way, so if you can't do X yet, just wait for it.

Installation

Libman is written in go, and will work only with go1.16 and above so get an up to date go compiler.

You can either clone the repo or install directly with the go command:

# recommended:
git clone https://github.com/insomnimus/libman
cd libman
git checkout main
go install

# you can also do this:
# go install github.com/insomnimus/libman@latest

Getting Started

You don't need a premium account, but you need to get an app token; visit this link.

After registering an application, note down your client id, secret and redirect uri (you configure your own redirect uri).

The redirect URI should be a loopback (localhost); for example:

http://localhost:8080/callback

Now you can either launch libman to generate a config file and save your credentials there, or you can set some env variables:

• LIBMAN_ID: Set it to your spotify client ID.
• LIBMAN_SECRET: Set it to your spotify client secret.
• LIBMAN_REDIRECT_URI: Set it to the redirect URI you configured from the spotify developer portal.
• LIBMAN_CACHE_PATH: This is not necessary but helpful, set it to a file where your session token will be saved so you won't have to authorize each time you launch libman.

These can be accomplished from the command line as well:

libman config id <client_id>
libman config secret <client_secret>
libman config redirect-uri <redirect_uri>
# there are more configuration options
# run the command below to see them all:
# libman config --list

That's it! Just launch libman and enjoy some music.

Tips & Tricks

• Create a ~/.libmanrc file and write any valid libman command to be ran at startup (define your aliases here).
• You can change the prompt! run libman config prompt "my new prompt>".
• The config file is located at ~/.config/libman.toml on unix, and C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming on windows.
• Configure a history file either from the config file or with $LIBMAN_HIST_FILE env var for search history auto completions.
• Want to view every album of an artist? Simple, run: salb *::michael jackson.