get the currently playing song from Spotify

{
  "name": "Why Are Sundays So Depressing - The Strokes",
  "url": "https://open.spotify.com/track/1aOxOpH4AkGAd8OMrKjyNY",
  "image": "https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b273bfa99afb5ef0d26d5064b23b"
}

• Set the environment variables by adding a new file called env.go with the following variables

  package main
  import "os"
  func SetEnvironmentVariables() {
    os.Setenv("CLIENT_ID", "YOUR_SPOTIFY_CLIENT_ID")
    os.Setenv("CLIENT_SECRET", "YOUR_SPOTIFY_CLIENT_SECRET")
    os.Setenv("REFRESH_TOKEN", "YOUR_SPOTIFY_REFRESH_TOKEN")
  }

  Find more about how to get these on Spotify OAuth Documentation

• Uncomment SetEnvironmentVariables() in main.go

• Run go run . to start the application

• Running curl http://localhost:8080/currently-playing will return JSON if something is playing

  {
    "name": "Nikamma - Lifafa",
    "url": "https://open.spotify.com/track/0yrCxEoGU4cV3CGr0sc65J",
    "image": "https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b273ccb8f637c8dd7422f4266bfa"
  }

• Running curl http://localhost:8080/currently-playing-page will return HTML if something is playing

  

• make sure to expose PORT 8080 when you are deploying