instagram-aim-status

instagram-away-mesage

A command line tool for generating instagram note messages from songs

Archived

Code is maintained on Codeberg

What does it do?

It retrieves a random song based on the artist you enter and returns the first 60 characters.

How It Works

This was made in a mad flash in service of a bit I was doing on instagram. I wouldn't call this quality software. If this ends up being of any use to anyone, it will have done far more than I anticipated.

As this is programmed it in an argument for a given artist, then returns a random track from the body of the returned tracks. From there it navigates to the shazam web page and parses the html looking for the lryics.Once it obtains the lyrics it trims them down to the first 60 characters. It will cut off words, so be warned.

I didn't build in any verification that it ends up returning the artist you intend.

Usage

I've tested this on a handful of bands and so far it's been able to work.

COMMANDS:
   get-artist, get  get-artist {string}
   help, h          Shows a list of commands or help for one command

Special Characters

Special characters can cause issues. For example, the ./app get-artist 3oh!3 will yield bash: !3: event not found If you get an error from a band with a special character, try escaping it with a \

ex: ./app get-artist 3oh\!3

Required Dependencies

Go

If you've never worked with Go before, you'll need to install that, follow their installation guide. https://go.dev/doc/install

RapidAPI

This is using Shazam's API through Rapid API, so you'll need a rapid API account. Apologies.

Required Environment Variables

If you've never done set environment variables, a crossplatform guide

RAPID_API_APP=instagram-aim-message # name of your app
RAPID_API_REQUEST_URL=rapidapi.com
RAPID_API_KEY={token} # X-RapidAPI-Key header parameter
RAPID_API_HOST=shazam.core.p.rapidapi.com # X-RapidAPI-Host parameter

Building

Once you've gotten every thing setup navigate to the instagram-aim-status/src and run go build It will output a file called src. I would personally rename this to something you'll remember like note-gen

ensure that it's executable. On linux that is chmod+x ./{name of file}

Running

Once that is all setup, you should be able to do ./note-gen get {name of band}