Sync Spotify “Now Playing” → Telegram Bio

This script updates your Telegram "About" (bio) with your current Spotify track, prepending a 🎶 line. It checks Spotify every 45 seconds and updates or clears your Telegram bio accordingly.

Features

• Checks Spotify every 45 seconds for your currently playing track

• Prepends/clears a 🎶 … line in your Telegram About

• Designed to run in the background:

  nohup python3 nowplaying.py &
  

Requirements

• Python 3.7+
• spotipy
• telethon
• python-dotenv

Install dependencies:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Setup

1. Clone repository:

git clone https://github.com/kr0sh512/spotify-to-tg-bio
cd ./spotify-to-tg-bio

1. Create a .env file in the script directory with the following variables:

   TG_API_ID=your_telegram_api_id
   TG_API_HASH=your_telegram_api_hash
   SPOTIFY_CLIENT_ID=your_spotify_client_id
   SPOTIFY_CLIENT_SECRET=your_spotify_client_secret
   SPOTIFY_REDIRECT_URI=http://127.0.0.1:8888/callback
   

   • Get Telegram API credentials from my.telegram.org.
   • Get Spotify credentials from Spotify Developer Dashboard.

2. First run: The script will prompt you to log in to both Spotify (via Web) and Telegram.

Usage

python3 nowplaying.py [--debug] [--single] [--help]

• --debug Print debug messages
• --single Run only one iteration and exit
• --help Show help message and exit

Run in background using systemd

To run the script as a background service with systemd, copy a unit file:

sudo cp ./spotify-telegram-bio.service /etc/systemd/system/spotify-telegram-bio.service

# /etc/systemd/system/spotify-telegram-bio.service
[Unit]
Description=Sync Spotify Now Playing to Telegram Bio
After=network.target

[Service]
Type=simple
WorkingDirectory=/your/dir/to/script
ExecStart=/usr/bin/python3 script.py
Restart=always
User=yourusername
Environment=PYTHONUNBUFFERED=1

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Replace yourusername with your actual Linux username.

Then reload systemd and enable the service:

sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable --now spotify-telegram-bio.service

Check status with:

systemctl status spotify-telegram-bio.service

View logs with:

sudo journalctl -fu spotify-telegram-bio.service

Notes

• The script requires Spotify OAuth scope: user-read-playback-state.
• Your Telegram session is stored locally as my_account.session.
• The script only updates your bio if the track changes.

Disclaimer

Use at your own risk. This script modifies your Telegram bio and uses your API credentials.