adding support for formating output of spotify module

1 files changed, 34 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/py3status/modules/spotify.py b/py3status/modules/spotify.py
index a797bb3..f70afae 100644
--- a/py3status/modules/spotify.py
+++ b/py3status/modules/spotify.py
@@ -5,31 +5,58 @@ This module displays the current "artist - title" playing in Spotify.
 Last modified: 2015-03-26
 Author: Pierre Guilbert <pierre@1000mercis.com>
 License: GNU GPL http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
+
+You could conf it in your i3status.conf like so:
+
+
+
+spotify {
+        format = "{title} by {artist} -> {time}"
+}
+
+
 """
 
 from time import time
-import dbus, dbus.proxies
+import dbus
+
 
 class Py3status:
 
+    """
+    Confiuration parameters:
+        cache_timeout
+    Format of status string placeholders:
+        title - name of the song
+        artist - artiste name (first one)
+        album - album name
+        time - time duration of the song
+    """
     # available configuration parameters
     cache_timeout = 0
+    format = "{title}: {album} : {artist} : {time}"
 
     def getText(self):
         """
         Get the current song metadatas (artist - title)
         """
-        
+
         bus = dbus.SessionBus()
 
         try:
-            self.__bus  = bus.get_object('com.spotify.qt', '/')
-            self.player = dbus.Interface(self.__bus, 'org.freedesktop.MediaPlayer2')
+            self.__bus = bus.get_object('com.spotify.qt', '/')
+            self.player = dbus.Interface(
+                self.__bus, 'org.freedesktop.MediaPlayer2')
 
             title = self.player.GetMetadata().get('xesam:title')
             artist = self.player.GetMetadata().get('xesam:artist')[0]
             album = self.player.GetMetadata().get('xesam:album')
-            return title + " by " + artist 
+            from datetime import timedelta
+            microtime = self.player.GetMetadata().get('mpris:length')
+            time = str(timedelta(microseconds=microtime))
+
+            return self.format.format(title=title,
+                                      artist=artist, album=album, time=time)
         except Exception:
             return "Spotify not running"
 
@@ -40,7 +67,8 @@ class Py3status:
         response = {'full_text': ''}
 
         response['cached_until'] = time() + self.cache_timeout
-        response['full_text'] = self.getText() or 'py3status module not working as expected'
+        response['full_text'] = self.getText(
+        ) or 'py3status module not working as expected'
 
         return response