🎵 Scraper API - Billboard to Spotify 🎧

Α Python automation project that scrapes the Billboard Hot 100 chart for a user-specified date and creates a private Spotify playlist with the top 100 songs of that day.

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✨ Features

• 📅 Prompt user to select any historical date
• 🧠 Scrape Billboard's Hot 100 songs for that date
• 🔍 Search each song on Spotify
• 🤖 Use fuzzy matching to find the best match if song not found directly
• 🎼 Automatically create a private playlist with the matching tracks

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🚀 How to Use

1. Clone this repository
2. Create a .env file with your Spotify API credentials:

   CLIENT_ID=your_spotify_client_id
   CLIENT_SECRET=your_spotify_client_secret
   REDIRECT_URI=your_redirect_uri

3. Run the script:

   python main.py

4. Enter a date in format YYYY-MM-DD when prompted
5. Check your Spotify account for the new playlist!

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🖥 Requirements

• Python 3.7+
• spotipy
• beautifulsoup4
• requests
• rapidfuzz

Install dependencies:

pip install -r requirements.txt

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🛠 Technologies Used

• Python
• Spotify Web API via spotipy
• BeautifulSoup for web scraping
• Requests for HTTP calls
• dotenv for environment management
• rapidfuzz for fuzzy matching

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🙋‍♂️ Author

👨‍💻 Created by Tsaousidis

🎉 Have fun exploring music through time! Let me know your thoughts and suggestions! 🎉