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Carl Byström
Personal blog · cgbystrom.com/articlesprogrammingsystems
Carl Byström's personal blog at cgbystrom.com covers programming and systems. Since 2013, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Deconstructing Spotify's built-in HTTP server”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this blog's Spotify post, which explains the undocumented local web helper API in the Spotify desktop app. They cite it as a source for how websites and scripts can control the player.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Collection of posts by Carl Byström
Most-linked posts?
- Deconstructing Spotify's built-in HTTP server5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2013-04-16
What Hacker News says?
The spotify one is for spotify connect most likely. I'm guessing (although not sure, someone could verify it) that spotify connect requires some sort of authorization to work. Edit: here you go http://cgbystrom.com/articles/deconstructing-spotifys-builti...
Comment linking /articles/deconstructing-spotifys-builtin-http-server/
on “Zoom fixes major Mac webcam security flaw with emergency patch”Submitted Deconstructing Spotify's built-in HTTP server as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThis approach was used for years by Spotify[1], to allow websites embedding their player to load content directly into a running instance of the desktop app. [1] http://cgbystrom.com/articles/deconstructing-spotifys-builti...
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on “A problem worse than Zoom?”If I remember correctly, the Spotify app creates a local web server with an API that can be used to grab the currently playing song, among many other things. See: - https://medium.com/@b3ngr33ni3r/hijacking-spotify-web-contro... - http://cgbystrom.com/articles/deconstructing-spotifys-builti... - https://code.google.com/p/spotify-local-api/
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on “Ask HN: I'm looking for a Spotify software engineer to speak to”I experimented with making one for Spotify. You can control the desktop player with the undocumented WebHelper API. http://cgbystrom.com/articles/deconstructing-spotifys-builti... Me and a friend could run a custom node.js script locally and control each other's players. However I never figured out half the polish OP did to get sync really tight, nor packaged and published my solution.
Comment linking /articles/deconstructing-spotifys-builtin-http-server/
on “Show HN: Netflix Party – Synchronize Netflix Video Playback”