https://github.com/eddelbuettel/spotifytop50us

Visualize Most Popular Songs from the Top50
https://github.com/eddelbuettel/spotifytop50us

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Visualize Most Popular Songs from the Top50

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/eddelbuettel/spotifytop50us
• Owner: eddelbuettel
• Created: 2023-12-10T15:26:37.000Z (over 2 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2024-10-29T10:15:39.000Z (over 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-29T12:17:45.193Z (over 1 year ago)
• Language: R
• Size: 153 MB
• Stars: 11
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 5
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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## spotifytop50us -- Show Recent Top Hits in the US

**Note:** As of November 27, 2024, the 'global top 50' API endpoint is no

longer provided by Spotify to this worked example is no longer operational

which is rather sad. So the repository no longer updates each night.

This repository illustrates how to _automate_ a data science or statistics task via GitHub Actions.

![](https://eddelbuettel.github.io/spotifytop50us/graphs/top50us.png)

We also provide a 'movie' collating the one hundred most recent images as an aninmated gif:

![](https://eddelbuettel.github.io/spotifytop50us/graphs/movie_last_n_days.gif)

### Motivation

A [toot by Brian Keegan](https://mastodon.social/@bkeegan@hci.social/111529520117166799) described the basic idea, [his repo](https://github.com/brianckeegan/SpotifyUSTop50/) contains a basic implementation (in Python, but without chart generation when I checked). 

As this provides a nice example for use in, for example, my [STAT 447](https://stat447.com) class I decided to build on it.

### Thanks

Thanks to

- [Brian Keegan](https://github.com/brianckeegan/SpotifyUSTop50/) for the [initial toot](https://mastodon.social/@bkeegan@hci.social/111529520117166799), 

- [Troy Hernandez](https://troyhernandez.com/) for [tinyspotifyr](https://github.com/TroyHernandez/tinyspotifyr) (also a [CRAN package](https://cran.r-project.org/package=tinyspotifyr)) 

- the authors of [spotifyr](http://www.rcharlie.com/spotifyr) from which it was derived), 

- [Bob Rudis](https://rud.is/) for [hrbrthemes](https://github.com/hrbrmstr/hrbrthemes) from which I derived my [tinythemes](https://github.com/eddelbuettel/tinythemes) used here

- and also to Spotify for providing an [API](https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api).

### Setup

Getting started with a RESTful API such the [Spotify Web

API](https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api) can be tricky.

Please consult one the existing CRAN packages

(i.e. [tinyspotifyr](https://cran.r-project.org/package=tinyspotifyr) or

[spotifyr](https://cran.r-project.org/package=spotifyr)) for details.  You

need to register an 'app' on their site in order to be authorized and get an

access token.  From R this works via a pair of environment variables along

with a (one-time) browser-based callback to align with your normal login to

bless these credentials.

### Author

This repository and its code have been put together by Dirk Eddelbuettel.

### License

The code in this repository is licensed under the GNU GPL, Version 2 or later.