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Dynamic Playlists - screenly/playground

Dynamic playlists in the context of Screenly refer to a feature where playlists can be enabled or disabled based on certain conditions, such as weather conditions. This can be achieved by using Screenly’s API to create playlists and programmatically enable or disable them based on the desired conditions.

Screenly’s API allows for the creation and management of playlists through its Playlist resource. A Playlist resource has the following properties:

  • creationTimestamp: The timestamp when the playlist was created.
  • finalizers: A list of finalizers for the playlist.
  • labels: Labels associated with the playlist.
  • resourceVersion: The version of the playlist resource.
  • uid: The unique identifier of the playlist.
  • deletionTimestamp: The timestamp when the playlist is scheduled for deletion.
  • items: A list of PlaylistItem resources that make up the playlist.

A PlaylistItem resource has the following properties:

  • type: The type of the playlist item. Possible values are dashboard_by_uid, dashboard_by_id, and dashboard_by_tag.
  • value: The value of the playlist item, which depends on the type.
  • title: The title of the playlist item.

To create a dynamic playlist based on weather conditions, one approach could be to use a weather API to retrieve the current weather conditions and then use that information to enable or disable a playlist through Screenly’s API.

Here is an example of how to create a playlist using the Spotify API and Terraform:

resource "spotify_playlist" "playlist" {
name        = "Terraform Summer Playlist"
description = "This playlist was created by Terraform"
public      = true

tracks = [
data.spotify_search_track.by_artist.tracks[0].id,
data.spotify_search_track.by_artist.tracks[1].id,
data.spotify_search_track.by_artist.tracks[2].id,
]
}

output "playlist_url" {
value     = "https://open.spotify.com/playlist/ ${spotify_playlist.playlist.id} "
description = "Visit this URL in your browser to listen to the playlist"
}

This Terraform code creates a Spotify playlist with three tracks that match the search in the data source block. The spotify_playlist resource is then used to create the playlist, and an output value is defined for the URL of the playlist.

To enable or disable the playlist based on weather conditions, one could use a weather API to retrieve the current weather conditions and then use a conditional statement to enable or disable the playlist through Screenly’s API.

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