spotify-cli

Minimal OCaml CLI program for controlling the spotify desktop client. Supported platforms:

• Linux (via DBus)
• Mac OSX (via osascript)

Installation

The easiest way to install is with opam, an OCaml package manager. spotify-cli is not yet in the main opam repository, so you'll have to add an extra remote first:

    opam remote add johnelse git://github.com/johnelse/opam-repo-johnelse
    opam install spotify-cli

Build dependencies

• cmdliner
• obus
• ocaml-mpris
• ocaml-spotify-web

Supported commands

    spotify-cli now-playing
    spotify-cli play-pause
    spotify-cli previous
    spotify-cli next
    spotify-cli play-album <search-string>
    spotify-cli play-artist <search-string>
    spotify-cli play-track <search-string>

play-album, play-artist and play-track search for the supplied name using the spotify metadata API, and play the first result (if any).

search-string doesn't have to match the album or track title exactly - in fact you will probably get better results if you specify the artist name along with the album or track name e.g.

    spotify-cli play-album "sepultura arise"