This is a module that shows the current song playing and its primary artist on Spotify, with a Spotify-green underline, for people that don't want to set up mpd. If Spotify is not active, nothing is shown. If the song name is longer than trunclen characers (default 25), it is truncated and ... is appended. If the song is truncated and contains a single opening parenthesis, the closing paranethsis is appended as well.

• Python (2.x or 3.x)
• Python dbus module

[module/spotify]
type = custom/script
interval = 1
format-prefix = " "
format = <label>
exec = python /path/to/spotify/script -f '{artist}: {song}'
format-underline = #1db954

The argument "-t" is optional and sets the trunlen. It specifies the maximum length of the song name, so that it gets truncated when the specified length is exceeded. Defaults to 25.

Override example:

exec = python /path/to/spotify/script -t 42

The argument "-f" is optional and sets the format. You can specify how to display the song and the artist's name, as well as where (or whether) to print the play-pause indicator.

Override example:

exec = python /path/to/spotify/script -f '{play_pause} {song} - {artist}'

This would output "Lone Digger - Caravan Palace" in your polybar, instead of what is shown in the screenshot.

The argument "-p" is optional, and sets which unicode symbols to use for the status indicator. These should be given as a comma-separated string, with the play indicator as the first value and the pause indicator as the second.

Override example:

exec = python /path/to/spotify/script -p '[playing],[paused]'

The argument "--font" is optional, and allow to specify which font from your Polybar config to use to display the main label.

Override example:

exec = python /path/to/spotify/script --font=1

The argument "--playpause-font" is optional, and allow to specify which font from your Polybar config to use to display the "play/pause" indicator.

Override example:

exec = python /path/to/spotify/script -p '[playing],[paused]' --playpause-font=2