This web app randomly selects an album from a given artist and optional also a show to listen to. The data is taken from Spotify and refreshed each time the application is started. A new album is picked each time the page is (re)loaded. Clicking on the album cover directly brings you to Spotify to start playing.
To run your own instance of this web app you will need to create a Spotify client id and secret on the Spotify Developer dashboard.
The app is configured by .env files (check the usage section) or via environment variables:
SPOTIFY_SHUFFLE_CLIENT_ID:
SPOTIFY_SHUFFLE_CLIENT_SECRET:
SPOTIFY_SHUFFLE_ARTIST_ID: 3meJIgRw7YleJrmbpbJK6S
SPOTIFY_SHUFFLE_SHOW_ID: 5cgMSSNAioVK0STCTlvo0z
Go to the Spotify developer dashboard and create a new app. You will be given the id as well as the secret.
You can easily find an artist id by going to spotify.com. Search for the artist and copy the id from the url (3meJIgRw7YleJrmbpbJK6S in this case):
https://open.spotify.com/artist/3meJIgRw7YleJrmbpbJK6S
Shows can be added in the same way as artists do (5cgMSSNAioVK0STCTlvo0z in this case):
https://open.spotify.com/show/5cgMSSNAioVK0STCTlvo0z
Besides the Show Id, there are two optional environment variables:
SPOTIFY_SHUFFLE_ARTIST_NAME: DDF
SPOTIFY_SHUFFLE_PORT: 8084
The artist name* is used in the page's title.