main.py

sp = spotipy.Spotify(
    auth_manager=SpotifyOAuth(
        scope="playlist-modify-private",
        redirect_uri="http://example.com",
        client_id=YOUR UNIQUE CLIENT ID,
        client_secret= YOUR UNIQUE CLIENT SECRET,
        show_dialog=True,
        cache_path="token.txt"
    )
)
user_id = sp.current_user()["id"]
date = input("Which year do you want to travel to? Type the date in this format YYYY-MM-DD: ")
song_uris = ["The list of", "song URIs", "you got by", "searching Spotify"]

playlist = sp.user_playlist_create(user=user_id, name=f"{date} Billboard 100", public=False)
# print(playlist)

sp.playlist_add_items(playlist_id=playlist["id"], items=song_uris)

I had to add very specified search criteria when fetching information from Billboard site:

song_names_spans = soup.select("ul li ul li h3", id_="title-of-a-story", class_="c-title")

v-- I also had issue creating the playlist to Spotify. Code below resolved my issue, thank you @grizzleswens ! --v

grizzleswens commented on Mar 5, 2024
Here is my code, it is working perfectly, I had to have a little bit of hand holding from chat gpt

import requests from bs4 import BeautifulSoup import spotipy from spotipy.oauth2 import SpotifyOAuth

Set your Spotify app credentials

You will need to make a spotify web app to get this data, go to spotify dev tools

SPOTIPY_CLIENT_ID = 'YOUR CLIENT ID' SPOTIPY_CLIENT_SECRET = 'YOUR CLIENT SECRET' SPOTIPY_REDIRECT_URI = 'YOUR REDIRECT URI' SCOPE = 'playlist-modify-public user-read-private'

date = input("What date would you like to travel back in time to? YYYY-MM-DD") endpoint = f"https://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100/{date}/"

Scrape web for top 100 songs

response = requests.get(endpoint) html_data = response.text

soup = BeautifulSoup(html_data, "html.parser")

songs = soup.select("li ul li h3") songs_titles = [song.getText().strip() for song in songs]

track_uris = []

Authenticate with Spotify

sp = spotipy.Spotify(auth_manager=SpotifyOAuth(client_id=SPOTIPY_CLIENT_ID, client_secret=SPOTIPY_CLIENT_SECRET, redirect_uri=SPOTIPY_REDIRECT_URI, scope=SCOPE))

Find track URIs

for song in songs_titles: try: results = sp.search(q=f"track:{song}", type="track") track_uri = results['tracks']['items'][0]['uri'] track_uris.append(track_uri) except IndexError: continue

# Authenticate with Spotify

sp = spotipy.Spotify(auth_manager=SpotifyOAuth(client_id=SPOTIPY_CLIENT_ID, client_secret=SPOTIPY_CLIENT_SECRET, redirect_uri=SPOTIPY_REDIRECT_URI, scope=SCOPE))

Get current user's profile data

user_id = sp.current_user()['id']

Create a new playlist for the current user

playlist_name = f"Billboard top songs on {date}" playlist_description = "Created with Python" playlist = sp.user_playlist_create(user=user_id, name=playlist_name, description=playlist_description)

Get the playlist ID

playlist_id = playlist['id']

Add tracks to the playlist

sp.playlist_add_items(playlist_id=playlist_id, items=track_uris)

print(f"Playlist created and tracks added. Playlist ID: {playlist_id}")

To add the tracks to the playlist I used another spotipy method, I can't find the one in the solution in the documentation. According to PyCharm that method also doesn't exist. Here is my code I used:

``

import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import spotipy
from spotipy.oauth2 import SpotifyOAuth
import os
from dotenv import load_dotenv

load_dotenv()

BILLBOARD_ENDPOINT= "https://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100/"
BILLBOARD_HEADER = {"User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:131.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/131.0"}

# entered a fixed date for testing purposes
# date = input("Which year do you want to travel to? Type the date in this format YYYY-MM-DD:")
date = "2022-12-12"
response = requests.get(url=f"{BILLBOARD_ENDPOINT}{date}",headers=BILLBOARD_HEADER)

soup = BeautifulSoup(response.text, "html.parser")
songs = soup.find_all(name="h3", class_="c-title a-no-trucate a-font-primary-bold-s u-letter-spacing-0021 lrv-u-font-size-18@tablet lrv-u-font-size-16 u-line-height-125 u-line-height-normal@mobile-max a-truncate-ellipsis u-max-width-330 u-max-width-230@tablet-only")
top_100_songs = []
for song in songs:
    title = song.getText().strip()
    top_100_songs.append(title)

sp = spotipy.Spotify(
    auth_manager=SpotifyOAuth(
        scope="playlist-modify-private",
        redirect_uri="http://example.com",
        client_id=os.environ["SPOTIPY_CLIENT_ID"],
        client_secret=os.environ["SPOTIPY_CLIENT_SECRET"],
        show_dialog=True,
        cache_path="token.txt",
        username="***********"
    )
)
user_id = sp.current_user()["id"]

track_uri_list = []
for song in top_100_songs:
    search = sp.search(q=song,type="track")
    try:
        track_uri_list.append(search["tracks"]["items"][0]["uri"])
    except IndexError:
        print("Track not found")

playlist_name = f"{date} Billboard 100"
playlist = sp.user_playlist_create(user_id, playlist_name, public=False, description=f"Billboard top 10 from {date}")
playlist_id = playlist["id"]
print(f"playlist created with id {playlist_id}")
sp.user_playlist_add_tracks(user=user_id, playlist_id=playlist_id, tracks=track_uri_list)
print("tracks added")

``