liri-node-app

Node Assignment

I am currently a student in the UT Austin Coding Bootcamp. after spending a few months on client-side development, we are beginning to learn about the back-end. Our week 12 assignment is to create a command line node app that takes in certain parameters and gives back data. It’s called LIRI, Language Interpretation and Regognition Interface…a play on SIRI.

Setup

1. You will need to clone this repository.

2. You will then need to create your own .env file to hold your Spotify Client IDs. The Spotify portion of this app will not work unless you do this.

   • In the root folder create a file named .env.

   • Add the following to it, replacing the values with your Spotify API keys (no quotes) once you have them:

       #### Spotify API keys
     
       SPOTIFY_ID=your-spotify-id
     
       SPOTIFY_SECRET=your-spotify-secret
     

   • These keys can be found by signing up as a developer on Spotify. Here is how you do that:

     • Step One: Visit https://developer.spotify.com/my-applications/#!/

     • Step Two: Either login to your existing Spotify account or create a new one (a free account is fine) and log in.

     • Step Three: Once logged in, navigate to https://developer.spotify.com/my-applications/#!/applications/create to register a new application to be used with the Spotify API. You can fill in whatever you’d like for these fields. When finished, click the “complete” button.

     • Step Four: On the next screen, scroll down to where you see your client id and client secret. Copy these values into your .env file.

3. You will also need a few Node packages for this all to work. From the root folder for this app in your command line, install the following:

   • Node-Spotify-API
     • Type npm install node-spotify-api into your command line. Allow it to finish installing then move on to the next…
   • Request
     • Type npm install request into your command line. Allow it to finish installing then move on to the next…
   • Moment
     • Type npm install moment into your command line. Allow it to finish installing then move on to the next…
   • DotEnv
     • Type npm install dotenv into your command line. Allow it to finish installing then move on to the next…
   • Chalk
     • Type npm install chalk into your command line. Allow it to finish installing then…you’re finished!

Using this app

• This app has four sets of commands that allow you to query different APIs.

1. Bands In Town

   • Allows you to query ‘Bands In Town Artists Events API’ by typing the following into your command line:

     node liri.js concert-this <artist/band name here>

   • The app will then give you the following information for five concerts:

     • Name of the venue
     • Venue location
     • Date of the Event

     Here is how it will look:

   

2. Spotify

   • Allows you to query the ‘Spotify API’ by typing the following into your command line:

     node liri.js spotify-this-song '<song name here>'

   • The app will then give you the following information:

     • Artist(s)
     • The song’s name
     • The album that the song is from
     • A preview link of the song from Spotify

     Here is how it will look:

   

3. OMDB

   • Allows you to query the ‘OMDB API’ by typing the following into your command line:

     node liri.js movie-this '<movie name here>'

   • The app will then give you the following information:

     • Title of the movie.
     • Year the movie came out.
     • IMDB Rating of the movie.
     • Rotten Tomatoes Rating of the movie.
     • Country where the movie was produced.
     • Language of the movie.
     • Plot of the movie.
     • Actors in the movie.

     Here is how it will look:

   

4. Do what it says

   • Type this into your command line and try it out:

     node liri.js do-what-it-says

     Here is how it will look: