polybar-spotify

This is a module that shows the current song playing and its primary artist on Spotify, with a Spotify-green underline, for people that don't want to set up mpd. If Spotify is not active, nothing is shown. If the song name is longer than trunclen characers (default 25), it is truncated and ... is appended. If the song is truncated and contains a single opening parenthesis, the closing paranethsis is appended as well.

Controls

You can add mouse controls for the player inside the module, as well. The configuration shown below uses mouse-1 for play-pause, mouse-2 for next, and mouse-3 for previous.

Dependencies

• Python (2.x or 3.x)
• Python dbus module
• playerctl

Settings

[module/spotify]
type = custom/script
interval = 1
format-prefix = " "
format = <label>
exec = python /path/to/spotify/script -f '{artist}: {song}'
format-underline = #1db954
;control players (optional)
click-left = playerctl --player=spotify play-pause 
click-right = playerctl --player=spotify next 
click-middle = playerctl --player=spotify previous 

Custom arguments

Truncate

The argument "-t" is optional and sets the trunlen. It specifies the maximum length of the printed string, so that it gets truncated when the specified length is exceeded. Defaults to 35.

Override example:

exec = python /path/to/spotify/script -t 42

Format

The argument "-f" is optional and sets the format. You can specify how to display the song and the artist's name, as well as where (or whether) to print the play-pause indicator.

Override example:

exec = python /path/to/spotify/script -f '{play_pause} {song} - {artist} - {album}'

This would output "Lone Digger - Caravan Palace - <I°_°I>" in your polybar, instead of what is shown in the screenshot.

Status indicator

The argument "-p" is optional, and sets which unicode symbols to use for the status indicator. These should be given as a comma-separated string, with the play indicator as the first value and the pause indicator as the second.

Override example:

exec = python /path/to/spotify/script -p '[playing],[paused]'

Fonts

The argument "--font" is optional, and allow to specify which font from your Polybar config to use to display the main label.

Override example:

exec = python /path/to/spotify/script --font=1

The argument "--playpause-font" is optional, and allow to specify which font from your Polybar config to use to display the "play/pause" indicator.

Override example:

exec = python /path/to/spotify/script -p '[playing],[paused]' --playpause-font=2

Quiet

The argument "-q" or "--quiet" is optional and specifies whether to display the output when the current song is paused. This will make polybar only show a song title and artist (or whatever your custom format is) when the song is actually playing and not when it's paused. Simply setting the flag on the comand line will enable this option.

Override example:

exec = python /path/to/spotify/script -q