I found that spotify was doing a bad job of showing me actually random music. Often, it'd just show me music that is similar but different than the music I already listen to. I wrote this to make it easier to find music in spotify that is truly unlike anything I already listen to.

The project will crawl around the spotify api and persists artist metadata into a sqlite database. I used this database to find weird genres that I'd never heard of before.

Get creds and put them here

# config/creds.json
{
    "client_id": "foo",
    "client_secret": "bar"
}

Then run it, it was developed with python 3.8

touch db/db.sqlite
python3 -m venv ./env
source ./env/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
cd src
python3 main.py

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• doesn't handle rate limits
• doesn't reauthenticate if the token expires
• for some reason the api returns a 404 as soon as you try to paginate past the 2000th page with an offset of 50. So idk if they just don't make it possible to search all 1million + artists, or if I'm overlooking something