A Script To Set Current Spotify Song As Slack Status

slackspotify.sh

#!/bin/bash
APIKEY="From Here https://api.slack.com/custom-integrations/legacy-tokens"
SONG=$(osascript -e 'tell application "Spotify" to name of current track as string')
URLSONG=$(echo "$SONG" | perl -MURI::Escape -ne 'chomp;print uri_escape($_),"\n"')

while true
do
curl -s -d "payload=$json" "https://slack.com/api/users.profile.set?token="$APIKEY"&profile=%7B%22status_text%22%3A%22"$URLSONG"%22%2C%22status_emoji%22%3A%22%3Amusical_note%3A%22%7D"  > /dev/null
sleep 60 
done 

My contribution using the new token format and hopefully very clear and readable:

# Get this token by:
# - Creating a Slack app https://api.slack.com/apps
# - Select Permissions > Scopes > User Token Scopes and add `users.profile:write`
# - Scroll up and select Install to Workspace under OAuth Tokens for Your Workspace
# - Copy User OAuth Token under OAuth Tokens for Your Workspace
TOKEN=$(cat slack.pat)

while true
do
  echo "Stamp:"
  date -Iseconds

  RUNNING=$(pgrep -lf Spotify)
  # Bail if Spotify is not running to prevent `osascript` from launching it
  if [ -z "$RUNNING" ];
  then
    echo "Spotify is off, waiting a minute…"
    sleep 60
    continue
  fi

  # See `/Applications/Spotify.app/Contents/Resources/Spotify.sdef`
  ARTIST=$(osascript -e 'tell application "Spotify" to artist of current track')
  SONG=$(osascript -e 'tell application "Spotify" to name of current track')

  # Bail if Spotify is not playing anything (but is running)
  if [ -z "$ARTIST" ] || [ -z "$SONG" ];
  then
    echo "Spotify is not playing anything, waiting a minute…"
    sleep 60
    continue
  fi

  STAMP=$(date -v"+5M" +%s)
  JSON=$(echo '{}' | jq --arg SONG "$SONG" --arg ARTIST "$ARTIST" --arg STAMP $STAMP '.profile.status_text=$ARTIST+" - "+$SONG | .profile.status_emoji=":headphones:" | .profile.status_expiration=($STAMP|tonumber)')
  echo "Request:"
  echo "$JSON" | jq '.'

  # See https://api.slack.com/docs/presence-and-status#custom_status
  echo "Response:"
  curl -X POST --data "$JSON" -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" -H "Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8" --no-progress-meter https://slack.com/api/users.profile.set | jq 'del(.profile)'

  # Wait for a minute in between the status updates
  sleep 60
  echo ""
done