Spotizerr

Spotizerr is an amazing self-hosted web service that let's you download and search for music from Deezer and Spotify.

While i do not recomend to use it, as it's against those services ToS, it seems to be working pretty well at least if you have a premium account.

Sporizerr is provided as a docker image that can be easily run with rootless podman. Due to this, it's important to properly setup credentials and storage locations.

As usual, create a dedicated user and associate it to the media group so that downloaded files will be accessible to the other media services:

useradd -d /data/daemons/spotizerr -m spotizerr -g media
mkdir /data/Media/spotizerr
mkdir /data/Media/spotizerr/downloads
mkdir /var/log/spotizerr
chown spotizerr:media /var/log/spotizerr
su - spotizerr
mkdir creds
mkdir config
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Xoconoch/spotizerr/refs/heads/main/docker-compose.yml

Now edit the default docker compose to adapt it to your needs. You can follow my docker compose:

docker-compose.yml

name: spotizerr
services:
  spotizerr:
    volumes:
      - /data/daemons/spotizerr/creds:/app/creds
      - /data/daemons/spotizerr/config:/app/config
      - /data/Media/spotizerr/downloads:/app/downloads  
      - /var/log/spotizerr:/app/logs  
    ports:
      - 7171:7171
    image: cooldockerizer93/spotizerr
    container_name: spotizerr-app
    environment:
#      - PUID=1000  # podman rootless needs PUID=0, or removed like this
#      - PGID=1000  # podman rootless needs PGID=0, or removed like this
      - UMASK=0002  # allow all users in media group to access music downloaded by spotizerr 
      - REDIS_HOST=redis
      - REDIS_PORT=6379
      - REDIS_DB=0
      - REDIS_URL=redis://redis:6379/0
      - REDIS_BACKEND=redis://redis:6379/0
      - EXPLICIT_FILTER=false # Set to true to filter out explicit content
    depends_on:
      - redis
    networks:
      - spotizerr-net

  redis:
    image: redis:alpine
    container_name: spotizerr-redis
    volumes:
      - redis-data:/data
    command: redis-server --appendonly yes
    networks:
      - spotizerr-net

volumes:
  redis-data:
    driver: local

networks:
  spotizerr-net: {}

PUID and PGID sohuld be omitted or set to 0, because i am using rootless podman and not docker. This ensure that the user running the container is actually the spotizerr user, which is what we want.

Now pull the image:

podman compose pull

Spotizerr seems to be working only on subdomain and not on subpath. I assume you have spotizerr.mydomain.com. See the F) The Reverse Proxy concept for more details.

spotizerr.conf

server {
        server_name spotizerr.mydomain.com;
        listen 443 ssl;
        listen 8443 ssl;
        http2 on;

        access_log /var/log/nginx/spotizerr.mydomain.com_access_log main;
        error_log /var/log/nginx/spotizerr.mydomain.com_error_log info;

        include "com.mydomain/authelia_location.conf";

        location / {
                include "com.mydomain/authelia_proxy.conf";
                include "com.mydomain/authelia_authrequest.conf";
                proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:7171/;
                proxy_set_header Connection $http_connection;
                proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
        }

        include org.gardiol/certbot.conf;
}

Please note that Spotizerr does not provide **any** authentication or protection: you **must** put your SSO (see [[selfhost:sso|here]]) and HTTPS on top of it using the reverse proxy as in the above config example.

You need to have your Spotify app on the phone and on the same network as the server.

it clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dspearson/librespot-auth.git
podman run --rm -v "$(pwd)/librespot-auth":/app -w /app rust:latest cargo build --release
./librespot-auth/target/release/librespot-auth --name "mySpotifyAccount1" --class=computer

open the app and add the device called mySpotifyAccount1 This file has the following format:

{“username”: “string” “auth_type”: 1 “auth_data”: “string”}

The important ones are the “username” and “auth_data” parameters, these match the “username” and “credentials” sections respectively when adding/editing spotify credentials in Spotizerr.

In the terminal, you can directly print these parameters using jq:

jq -r '.username, .auth_data' credentials.json

see here

work in progress

To start it, and set it up on boot, as usual follow my indications Using Containers on Gentoo, so link the user-containers init script:

ln -s /etc/init.d/user-containers /etc/init.d/user-containers.spotizerr

and create the following config file:

user-containers.spotizerr

USER=spotizerr
DESCRIPTION="Spotify donwloader"

Add the service to the default runlevel and start it now:

/etc/init.d/user-containers.spotizerr start
rc-update  user-containers.spotizerr