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Spotify playlist to Dropbox - Version 2

Wed, 04 Feb 2015 00:00:00 GMT

This is a post about an IFTTT recipe I made. Not sure what IFTTT is ?

Unfortunately for sometime now version 1 of these recipes hasn’t been working. Now that I have some more time on my hands I have decided to fix it.

Improvements

It now works again!
Its quicker than version 1
Works more reliably.

Disadvantages

Only works for the first 100 songs in playlists with more the 100 songs

Technical differences between versions

	Version 1	Version 2
Backend	- Yahoo Pipes	- PHP ( I now know PHP :D ) - Memcache
APIs used	- Last Fm - Soundcloud - Spotify (Unofficial through webpage scrapping)	- Last Fm - Soundcloud - Spotify (Official)

Upgrading to new version

Nothing should need to be changed when upgrading from the previous version.

Using New Version

What this recipe does

These recipes download the songs in your Spotify Playlist via Last.fm Free Music and Soundcloud downloadable tracks. The tracks at these sites have been submitted by the artist and been marked as free and downloadable for the public.

Recipes

What’s the difference? Download only exact matches only does steps 1 to 3 of *How it Works *Below. As such it is very limiting (it only gets the exact song).

Download only exact matches (source Last.fm Free Music)

Save to box

Save to dropbox

Save to google drive

save to skydrive

Download all (Source Last.fm Free Music and Soundcloud)

Save to box

Save to dropbox

Save to google drive

save to skydrive

Set up Instructions

In Spotify right click on your playlist and select *Copy Spotify URI

How to Copy Spotify URI
- Then go to the desired recipe (links above)
- In the URL field paste your *Spotify URI *after the “=” sign
Paste the Spotify URI after the ”=” sign
- In order for the script to work the feed url you just completed in step 3 needs to be loaded once ( without IFTTT) so copy the complete feed url from IFTTT and paste it into your browser

How it works

The script checks your Spotify playlist
Then song by song it checks to see if the song is available legally for free from Last.fm
If it is the script tells IFTTT to add it to your Dropbox or equivalent.
If it isn’t the script searches Soundcloud for the songs title and artist and then downloads the first downloadable song. This is why remixed version are often downloaded.

Other IFTTT recipes

I made a post about how I use IFTTT -interested?
My Public IFTTT Profile

Help

Need help? Have a suggestion? Please leave a comment

Note: I’m still working on the Download all (Source Last.fm Free Music and Soundcloud) version Soundcloud API issues so for now the Download all version is working like the exact version, but that is soon to change.

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My Fitbit channel for IFTTT

Sun, 09 Feb 2014 00:00:00 GMT

UPDATE 21/5/14: IFTTT has just released an official fitbit channel. So I recommend everyone uses that. As a result I will discontinue my version at the end of this month. Thanks to everyone who tried and particularly those who tested my fitbit channel. I currently have plans for a 3rd party Snapchat Channel. So keep posted :)

My Fitbit channel for IFTTTis ~~being~~ made - ~~sorry to get your hopes up :/~~ and i need some people to test it

Status

As we speak I’m currently coding a 3rd party IFTTT channel for Fitbit. It will work by pretending to be a wordpress blog. So unfortunately this channel would prevent the use of the WordPress channel I’m hoping to get the IFTTT channel out in ~~about a month~~ a week or so ( but that depends on how much help I get :P ) The first version will only have actions. A future version may be made that has triggers as well.

However, as I don’t really have a use for that ( I don’t own a fitbit) it depends on if I get a fitbit - please see below

Speaking of which if you can donate/ find this project helpful or would like to increase your chance of getting triggers. Please help me buy a fitbit?

How you can help

I am after some alpha/beta testers for the fitbit channel Update: anyone interested please go here and leave a comment on the post with any feedback
I’m curious about the legal requirements with holding medical/fitness data about individuals from all over the world. Obviously I wouldn’t keep the data for longer then I would be required to. So if you have an expertise in this area please contact me by leaving a comment.
Buy me a fitbit. I don’t have the money for one - I’m just a kid

Want to keep updated?

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The Ultimate Free Music Setup

Fri, 06 Dec 2013 00:00:00 GMT

How to get the ultimate free music setup - ok maybe it’s not the ultimate setup, but it’s still pretty cool

Features: Continuous free, legal and unlimited, personally recommended songs that support the artist. - sorry the ended up being a mouthfull

The System

Get an account for each service / download the software
- Dropbox
- IFTTT
- Spotify
- Blockify - windows only or potentially Smutefy
- Last Fm
Link them all together
- Spotify to Last.fm
  - open up Spotify preferences
  - tick scrobble to Last.Fm and enter your Last.Fm details
- Last.fm to IFTTT to Dropbox
- Dropbox to Blockify to Spotify
  - Open up Blockify then choose your Dropbox music folder by going Options -> Set Folder

Extra points

Sync your new Dropbox music folder to your mobile device using an app like MusicDropNPLay for Android or Tunebox for iOS.

Auto-capture phone thief

Mon, 25 Nov 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Lockwatch Anti-Theft is an android app that takes a photo using the front facing camera when your passcode is incorrectly entered. It then sends that photo along with the phones’ current GPS location to your email account.

Lockwatch by default has a nice feature enabled to prevent false alarms. This means Lockwatch will give you 10 seconds to type in the correct password before it sends the alert. If you type in the correct password, the alert will be cancelled and you will not receive an e-mail.

Extra Points

Want the photo to automatically be added to your dropbox. Using IFTTT you can. If you follow the steps above and have the email address be a gmail one. You can use the IFTTT recipe below:

Other IFTTT recipes

I recently made a post about how I use IFTTT -interested?
My Public IFTTT Profile

Help

Need help? Have a suggestion? Please leave a comment

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Update: Spotify playlist to Dropbox

Mon, 11 Nov 2013 00:00:00 GMT

How to update to the latest version of this IFTTT Recipe

Issue Resolved:

Steps to implement fix:

In your IFTTT recipe change the URL field to http://ifttt.jamesstone.com.au/?type=&uri= making sure to change:

?type= to either ?type=full or ?type=exact
&uri= to &uri= with your spotify playlist URI appended - example http://ifttt.jamesstone.com.au/?type=full&uri=spotify:user:spotify:playlist:4hOKQuZbraPDIfaGbM3lKI (Top 100 songs on Spotify)

~~This is a post detailing an issue with the Spotify playlist to Dropbox recipe~~

Issue

~~The rss file that is generated by yahoo pipes takes to long to load and IFTTT often timesout.~~

Solution

~~Slowly being developed.Provide a Cache for IFTTT so when IFTTT loads the rss file it doses’t time out.~~

How you can help

~~Keep me posted on any future bugs by leaving a comment~~
~~If you know any PHP and are willing to help please leave a comment (I know almost none)~~

~~I’m after some PHP code that for an rss file on request:~~
- ~~Checks for previous cache of the file~~
- ~~If previous cache found:~~
  - ~~send current cached file ( would be slightly old)~~
  - ~~then once sent “cached version”~~
  - ~~get current rss version and update the cache~~
- ~~If previous cache not found:~~
  - ~~get current rss cache~~
  - ~~send current rss file~~
  - ~~then once sent loads “live version” to cache~~

Note:

~~The recipes still work, however they aren’t trigger as frequently as they should be.~~

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Spotify playlist to Dropbox

Wed, 06 Nov 2013 00:00:00 GMT

New Version now available

This is a post about an IFTTT recipe I made. Not sure what IFTTT is?

What this recipe does

Recipes

What’s the difference? Download only exact matches only does steps 1 to 3 of *How it Works *Below. As such it is very limiting (it only gets the exact song).

Download only exact matches (source Last.fm Free Music)

Save to box

Save to dropbox

Save to google drive

save to skydrive

Download all (Source Last.fm Free Music and Soundcloud)

Save to box

Save to dropbox

Save to google drive

save to skydrive

Set up Instructions

In Spotify right click on your playlist and select *Copy Spotify URI * then go to the desired recipe
- How to Copy Spotify URI
- Then go to the desired recipe (links above)
- In the URL field paste your *Spotify URI *after the = sign ( or you can leave it as spotify:user:spotify:playlist:4hOKQuZbraPDIfaGbM3lKI for Top 100 tracks currently on Spotify playlist )
- Paste the Spotify URI after the = sign

How it works

Yahoo pipes checks your spotify playlist
Then song by song it checks to see if the song is available legally for free from Last.fm
If it is Yahoo Pipes tells IFTTT to add it to your dropbox or equivilent.
If it isn’t Yahoo Pipes searches Soundcloud for the songs title and artist and then downloads the first downloadable song. This is why remixed version are often downloaded.

Update: Issues

~~The recipes will still work, however the recipes aren’t triggered as frequently as they should be. [Details]~~

Fixed [Details]

Other IFTTT recipes

I recently made a post about how I use IFTTT -interested?
My Public IFTTT Profile

Help

Need help? Have a suggestion? Please leave a comment

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How I use IFTTT

Wed, 06 Nov 2013 00:00:00 GMT

After reading Aaron Francis‘ blog post about how he uses Evernote and IFTTT I felt inspired to make this post about how I use IFTTT.

At present I have 22 IFTTT recipes. Here are some of my favourite.

Lots of my school related recipes are:

Sync my Services

Auto post

I try to keep my auto posting recipes to a minimum. I do this, as I hate browsing through a social network and seeing posts that have obviously been auto posted. Anyway here are my auto posting recipes:

Update my Facebook Status “Happy New Year” every year on the 1st of Jan at midnight
Update my Facebook Status “Merry Christmas” every year on the 25th of Dec at 11:22 am

Public Recipes

You can view all my public recipes here

How do you use IFTTT? What are your favourite IFTTT recipes?

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Why you should use IFTTT?

Tue, 05 Nov 2013 00:00:00 GMT

IFTTT is an amazing tool. It has made my life online so much easier- are you sold?

So why should you use IFTTT.

But what is IFTTT?

IFTTT is a service that lets you create powerful connections [between your online accounts] with one simple statement: If This Then That (Image Via: IFTTT)

So basically, IFTTT allows you to connect your online services via their API‘s. These connections are called recipes which are made from the phrase IF THIS THEN THAT.

Still don’t get it?

Sorry that’s my fault. It’s a hard concept to explain. I think an example will help.

IFTTT allows you to:

There are an infinite number of possibilities.
UPDATE: I have since made a post about how I use IFTTT. That post can be found here

The Services IFTTT support are called channels. Currently there are 72 channels with more regularly being added. To view them all you can click here

So why use IFTTT

Pretty simply - It will make your life easier.

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Spotify playlist to Dropbox - Version 2

Improvements

Disadvantages

Technical differences between versions

Upgrading to new version

Using New Version

What this recipe does

Recipes

Download only exact matches (source Last.fm Free Music)

Download all (Source Last.fm Free Music and Soundcloud)

Set up Instructions

How it works

Other IFTTT recipes

Help

My Fitbit channel for IFTTT

Status

How you can help

Want to keep updated?

The Ultimate Free Music Setup

The System

Extra points

Further Reading

Auto-capture phone thief

Extra Points

Other IFTTT recipes

Help

Update: Spotify playlist to Dropbox

Issue Resolved:

Steps to implement fix:

Issue

Solution

How you can help

Note:

Spotify playlist to Dropbox

What this recipe does

Recipes

Download only exact matches (source Last.fm Free Music)

Download all (Source Last.fm Free Music and Soundcloud)

Set up Instructions

How it works

Update: Issues

Other IFTTT recipes

Help

How I use IFTTT

Education related recipes

Music Related

Sync my Services

Auto post

Public Recipes

Why you should use IFTTT?

But what is IFTTT?

Still don’t get it?

So why use IFTTT