Building an alternative search for Spotify

Playlist detective allows to search in Spotify with the power of Algolia.

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1. Playlist Detective An alternative search for Spotify https://www.playlistdetective.com/
2. Hello I’m Alex Software engineer @bobylito Loves music https://www.playlistdetective.com/
3. Discovering music with playlists Spotify search is great! If you are not looking for playlists https://www.playlistdetective.com/
5. Implementation https://www.playlistdetective.com/
6. Indexing https://www.playlistdetective.com/
7. Spotify Web API 101 Looking for playlists on Spotify? You first need the user ID of a playlist curator. https://www.playlistdetective.com/ /v1/users/{user_id}/playlists /v1/playlists/{playlist_id}/tracks /v1/playlists/{playlist_id}
8. First iteration https://www.playlistdetective.com/ Fetch data Push to Algolia 1 file per curator
9. Scale breaks everything It was fine with 150 curators It broke down with 1800+ curators https://www.playlistdetective.com/
10. Current indexing script https://www.playlistdetective.com/ Push to Algolia Fetch data MongoDB
11. Searching https://www.playlistdetective.com/
12. Building the UI is easy https://www.playlistdetective.com/
13. Search for facet values Search in the search - Songs and artists are facets - Lots of values - Search in them https://www.playlistdetective.com/
14. What now? https://www.playlistdetective.com/
15. Key learnings - Search can be tailored to the user - It’s fine to start with something that do not scale - Be ready to improve what you’ve built https://www.playlistdetective.com/
16. Next - Play with custom rankings - Try to leverage more the dataset https://www.playlistdetective.com/
17. Thanks https://www.playlistdetective.com/ https://github.com/bobylito/playlistFinder/ @bobylito