Downloading songs and podcast episodes from Spotify

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I am trying to build a workflow step where I download a specific song or podcast episode from Spotify. There is some npm packages out there that seem to be able to do that but I am struggling to integrate them:

It seems that on the one authenticating/access token might be one issue even though I connected my spotify account as well as certain packages such as ffmpeg not being there…

Any help, appreciated.

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Hi @domdewom

First off, welcome to the Pipedream community. Happy to have you!

Can you provide more details like the error specifically that you’re seeing?

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This is the error I am getting now:

TypeError
Error While writing to File: ./spotifydl-core.mp3

This is the code step:

import { axios } from "@pipedream/platform"; 
import fs from "fs-extra";
import { Spotify } from "spotifydl-core";

import ffmpeg from "fluent-ffmpeg"; 
import ffmpegInstaller from "@ffmpeg-installer/ffmpeg";


export default defineComponent({
  props: {
    spotify: {
      type: 'app',
      app: 'spotify'
    }
  },

  async run({ steps, $ }) {

    console.log(this.spotify.$auth)
    const accessToken = this.spotify.$auth;

    const credentials = { 
      clientId: 'xxx', //your own clientId
      clientSecret: 'xxx' //your own clientSecret'
    }

    const spotifydl = new Spotify(credentials)
     
    
    // Declaring the respective url in 'links' object 
    const links = {
      artist: steps.trigger.event.track.artists[0].name, 
      album: steps.trigger.event.track.album.name,
      song: steps.trigger.event.track.external_urls.spotify 
    };

    try {
        console.log(ffmpegInstaller);
        ffmpeg.setFfmpegPath(ffmpegInstaller.path, {timeout: 60000});

        const tmpPath = `/tmp/song.mp3`
        const mime = `mp3`

        const data = await spotifydl.getTrack(links.song) 
        console.log('Downloading: ', data.name, 'by:', data.artists.join(' ')) 
        
        const song = await spotifydl.downloadTrack(links.song, tmpPath)

        fs.writeFileSync(tmpPath, song)
           
        // Create a results object
        const results = {
        "tmpPath": tmpPath,
        "mimetype": mime
        }
        
        return results
    } catch (error) {
        // Log the error and return an error message or handle the error as required
        console.log('ERROR:')
        console.error(error);
        throw error;
    }
  }
})

Essentially I would like to be able to download songs/episodes from Spotify with my premium Spotify account. I am not entirely sure What is happening now? Initially it didnt recognize ffmpeg, apparently the ffmpeg.setFfmpegPath(ffmpegInstaller.path) fixes this…

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The root of the filesystem is not accessible for writing, it looks like even though have you have specified filePath to use a the /tmp directory, that your path is ignored by the library.

Perhaps try double checking the documentation for specifying a path on this library, I suspect that there’s either a bug in the library not respecting paths properly or the option is in a slightly different place.

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I just realized I might have used the wrong ’ character for the path:

const tmpPath = `/tmp/song.mp3`
const mime = `mp3`

to

const tmpPath = '/tmp/song.mp3'
const mime = 'mp3'

Interestingly enough, now I am getting a different error. So for songs it seems to work but for podcast episodes (which is my actual goal) it doesnt seem to work:

WebapiRegularError
An error occurred while communicating with Spotify’s Web API. Details: Non existing id: ‘spotify:track:0PxnFMpnXVCwkDHY8YT3FV’.

DETAILS

    at null._toError (/tmp/__pdg__/dist/code/d197d6afc3d3393f22f3a3b9a6a9ad4bb13739519c247bf1d6e056693c67a6e0/node_modules/.pnpm/spotify-web-api-node@5.0.2/node_modules/spotify-web-api-node/src/http-manager.js:39:12)
    at null.null (/tmp/__pdg__/dist/code/d197d6afc3d3393f22f3a3b9a6a9ad4bb13739519c247bf1d6e056693c67a6e0/node_modules/.pnpm/spotify-web-api-node@5.0.2/node_modules/spotify-web-api-node/src/http-manager.js:71:25)
    at Request.Request.callback (/tmp/__pdg__/dist/code/d197d6afc3d3393f22f3a3b9a6a9ad4bb13739519c247bf1d6e056693c67a6e0/node_modules/.pnpm/superagent@6.1.0/node_modules/superagent/lib/node/index.js:905:3)
    at null.null (/tmp/__pdg__/dist/code/d197d6afc3d3393f22f3a3b9a6a9ad4bb13739519c247bf1d6e056693c67a6e0/node_modules/.pnpm/superagent@6.1.0/node_modules/superagent/lib/node/index.js:1127:20)
    at IncomingMessage.null (/tmp/__pdg__/dist/code/d197d6afc3d3393f22f3a3b9a6a9ad4bb13739519c247bf1d6e056693c67a6e0/node_modules/.pnpm/superagent@6.1.0/node_modules/superagent/lib/node/parsers/json.js:22:7)
    at Stream.emit (events.js:400:28)
    at Unzip.null (/tmp/__pdg__/dist/code/d197d6afc3d3393f22f3a3b9a6a9ad4bb13739519c247bf1d6e056693c67a6e0/node_modules/.pnpm/superagent@6.1.0/node_modules/superagent/lib/node/unzip.js:53:12)
    at Unzip.emit (events.js:400:28)
    at null.endReadableNT (internal/streams/readable.js:1333:12)
    at process.processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:82:21)
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Digging into the above error, I actually think it has something to do with the spotifydl-core library. Given it works for songs but doesnt work for podcast episodes, it seems to assume each spotify url is a track and tries to make a spotify web api call up using spotify:track:xxx instead of spotify:episode:xxx…

Not sure how to fix this. Probably would need to go to the original npm library? Or any other suggestions?