Devlog 04
This was a big change in the metadata retrieving/handling. Last devlog I explained how the new restrictions on the Spotify API made it difficult to fetch the metadata, so I had to use the public oEmbed API. This didn’t give much information and was hard to work with. After researching some more I found a python package that does the metadata fetching for me, “SpotifyScraper”. this package takes in a spotify url (which the user will be providing), and can get information like song names, artists, duration, etc. This was very useful for me when coding the metadata functions. On top of this it supports playlist and album inputs as well, which is great for future updates. I spent this time rewriting the metadata retrieving functions and cleaning everything up. I removed a few redundant functions and introduced proper error messages.