topic Re: Is is possible for AppleScript to get the currently playing song from the Spotify app? in Desktop (Mac)

Is is possible for AppleScript to get the currently playing song from the Spotify app?

random1destiny — Sat, 20 Apr 2019 15:00:06 GMT

I would love to make applescript that can fetch the current song from the Mac Spotify app and run a google search in my browser for "[song name] lyrics". Is it actually possible to access the currently playing song via an Applescript command?

I know about the Musixmatch app which is good for a lot of songs but I have many tracks that don't have lyrics in their app (often acoustic tracks) or are blocked by the label. I would like to be able to have a shortcut assigned applescript that can search for these lyrics without having to type out the song name in my browser.

Also, short of that is there an easy way to copy the [song name] of the song from the app to my clipboard? None of the text is selectable in the desktop app so it seems like I have to manually type out the name of the song each time to find the lyrics which is annoying.

Re: Is is possible for AppleScript to get the currently playing song from the Spotify app?

MrC_ — Thu, 02 May 2019 00:00:15 GMT

Yes!

You can view the applescript dictionary in Script Debugger (or other ways):

Re: Is is possible for AppleScript to get the currently playing song from the Spotify app?

tugushev — Mon, 23 Mar 2020 05:33:12 GMT

Mrc, how to launch Script Debugger in MacOS?

Re: Is is possible for AppleScript to get the currently playing song from the Spotify app?

Booligoosh — Tue, 28 Apr 2020 07:06:41 GMT

I believe that @MrC_ was referring to this application https://latenightsw.com/

Re: Is is possible for AppleScript to get the currently playing song from the Spotify app?

bobrosoft — Tue, 28 Apr 2020 10:59:00 GMT

They broke AppleScript "current track" in recent update (v 1.1.31.703.g256add22) :((( Now it's working randomly...

Re: Is is possible for AppleScript to get the currently playing song from the Spotify app?

Paul0075 — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 00:15:03 GMT

Is there a way to get this to write to a text file, which automatic overwrites when the song changes? I've been trying to piece this together for hours and not making progress on my own. Thanks

Re: Is is possible for AppleScript to get the currently playing song from the Spotify app?

aviwad2 — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 06:38:10 GMT

You should try my app Lyric Fever. I use DistributedNotifications() to detect when a song has changed in spotify, and then use AppleScript to get song details, and using some private methods I get lyrics from all over the web.