Simple Spotify search

Description

The following project allows a user to perform a simple search on Spotify information which exposed via its API.

When user selects a filter and types a search term, a request is made to the Spotify API

Spotify results are parsed and generate a page containing results

A "Counter" shows the count of the results returned.

Search results contain a 64x64 thumbnail beside them whenever available.

Data is paginated

Notes

• For speed of development and due to the author's familiarity with the framework, Django has been used to create this app. A more lightweight framework such as Flask on web.py would probably be more suitable for such a lightweight app and recreating this in such a framework would be a good future exercise.
• There are no tests with this project, which really is not a good thing Given a little more time there are some basic tests which could fairly quickly be integrated.
• The Spotify API only returns a maximum of 50 items in any one call. The next iteration of this design could take into account this limitation.

Installation

This package uses Python 3.5.2. Please bear this in mind when installing dependencies etc.

All of the project requirements are contained within requirement.txt and assumes that you are familiar with using virtualenv and pip

To install the requirements for this project, run the following script from the project root:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Once you have the requirements installed you should have Django installed and will need to run the following two steps to get going:

python manage.py migrate
python manage.py runserver 8000 (runs local server on port 8000)

Installation notes

The above commands create a sqlite database called db.sqlite3. To override this, and tweak other settings if you know what you're doing rename local_settings.py.sample in the settings directory to local_settings.py. You may need to delete any existing databases and re-run the migrate command above to get these bespoke settings working.