Jaime Ortega

music scout

Reads music blogs every morning and fills a playlist.

Year
2026
Made for
Python
State
shipped

Source

A scheduled job that reads the music blogs I would read if I had the time, pulls out the tracks released this year, and adds them to a Spotify playlist.

Blogs write about reissues, anniversaries and back catalogue constantly, and none of that is what I want from a discovery playlist. Anything not released this year gets dropped before it reaches me.

How to use it

Install it, run scout init, and let it fill a playlist every morning.

  1. Terminal 
    git clone https://github.com/JaimeOrtegaxyz/music-scout \
  ~/Documents/GitHub/music-scout
cd ~/Documents/GitHub/music-scout
./install.sh
scout init

Needs python3 3.11 or newer. The install is editable on purpose: config, the track database and the logs live in ./data inside the checkout, so it runs from there. Your blogs and listening history sit next to the code but stay out of git.

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