LIRI

Find songs from Spotify, shows from Bands In Town, and movies from OMDB.

Installation and Getting Started

1. git clone https://github.com/adj-dev/liri-node-app.git
2. cd liri-node-app
3. npm install
4. touch .env
5. Place credentials for Spotify and OMDB inside .env using the following syntax:

   SPOTIFY_ID=provided_credential
   SPOTIFY_SECRET=provided_credential
   OMDB_KEY=provided_credential
   

6. node liri or node liri.js

Where can I find said credentials?

Spotify: https://developer.spotify.com/dashboard/login

OMDB: http://www.omdbapi.com/

A quick note on entering arguments

When adding any search term quotes are not recommended as they could throw off the APIs - though Liri will attempt to handle it. If there are no results Liri will let you know that none were found.

Commands

There are 6 different commands that the user can use.

Find upcoming events for an artist/band

Formerly known as concert-this

Takes a string that represents an artist/band name. LIRI uses the Bandsintown API to return a list of all upcoming events for said artist/band. If it is possible to buy tickets for the event LIRI will provide a link that will take you to where you can purchase them.

Search for a song on Spotify

Formerly known as spotify-this-song

Takes a string that represents the title of a song. LIRI uses Spotify to return a list of 5 songs related to the given song title. If no song is specified the user will be involuntarily "rick-rolled".

Get information about a movie

Formerly known as movie-this

Takes a string that represents the title of a movie. LIRI uses OMDB to find information about the movie.

Something incredibly mundane

Formerly known as do-what-it-says

A rather useless feature. LIRI reads a file named random.txt and makes an API call based on the text it finds.

Notice: there is no GIF for this feature because you gotta install and run the application to find out exactly how incredibly mundane it truly is.

HELP!

Provides a description of what LIRI is and directions for basic use.

QUIT

Exits from the application loop and ends the process.

Special Features

When searching for a song the user has the option to specify a desired number of results by adding an additional argument: r=[1-20]. For example, the user could add r=15 after writing out the song title and LIRI would return 15 results; billie jean r=2 would return 2 songs related to "billie jean". The user can ask for up to 20 results, and the default is 5. If the user attempts to use a number that is out of range, the default is used. Additionally, this argument can be added before or after the song title (it can even go in-between words of a song title as long as there are spaces separating all the words).