BeatPrints: Quick, stylish posters for your favorite tracks! 🎷☕️

Create eye-catching, Pinterest-style music posters effortlessly. BeatPrints integrates with Spotify and LRClib API to help you design custom posters for your favorite tracks or albums. 🍀

📔 Check out the documentation here!

📦 Installation

You can install BeatPrints via:

# For pip users
pip install BeatPrints

# For poetry users
poetry add BeatPrints

Or if you prefer using just the CLI:

pipx install BeatPrints

This will install the CLI, making it ready for you to use. For more more infomation, check out pipx

🚀 Quick Start

🌱 Environment Variables

To get started with BeatPrints, you’ll need a .env file with these keys:

SPOTIFY_CLIENT_ID = "<your-client-id>"
SPOTIFY_CLIENT_SECRET = "<your-client-secret>"

You can get these from the Spotify Developer Dashboard by creating a new app with Web API as the scope.

🎀 Creating your FIRST Poster

Here’s how you can create your first poster:

import os, dotenv
from BeatPrints import lyrics, poster, spotify

dotenv.load_dotenv()

# Spotify credentials
CLIENT_ID = os.getenv("SPOTIFY_CLIENT_ID")
CLIENT_SECRET = os.getenv("SPOTIFY_CLIENT_SECRET")

# Initialize components
ly = lyrics.Lyrics()
ps = poster.Poster("./")
sp = spotify.Spotify(CLIENT_ID, CLIENT_SECRET)

# Search for the track and fetch metadata
search = sp.get_track("Saturn - SZA", limit=1)

# Pick the first result
metadata = search[0]

# Get lyrics and determine if the track is instrumental
lyrics = ly.get_lyrics(metadata)

# Use the placeholder for instrumental tracks; otherwise, select specific lines
highlighted_lyrics = (
    lyrics if ly.check_instrumental(metadata) else ly.select_lines(lyrics, "5-9")
)

# Generate the track poster
ps.track(metadata, highlighted_lyrics)

🥞 CLI

Here’s a short video showing how to generate posters using the CLI. For more information refer to the documentation here

BeatPrints-cli.mp4

🖼️ Examples

Track: Saturn by SZA	Album: Charm by Clairo

🎨 Themes

BeatPrints currently offers you 5 additional themes to use!

• Catppuccin
• Gruvbox
• Nord
• Rosepine
• Everforest

For more examples, check out the examples directory.

✨ Features

• Polaroid Filter for Covers: Give your track or album covers a vintage Polaroid look.
• Multi-language Support: Supports English, Hindi, Russian, Japanese, Chinese, and Korean.
• Custom Cover Images: Personalize posters with your own images.
• Theme Customization: Switch between different other themes.
• Track & Album Selection: Highlight your favorite track or entire album.
• Lyrics Highlighting: Highlight your favourite lyrics directly on your poster.

🤝 Contributors

Thank you to all contributors for making BeatPrints better!

💡 Why BeatPrints?

I created this project after finding out that people sell these posters on Etsy at high prices, offering only digital downloads instead of shipping actual posters.

I wanted to make it free for everyone to print themselves, as I believe my posters are simpler, cleaner, and prettier.

❤️ Special Thanks

• A big thanks to Spotify Poster Generator by @AnveshakR for inspiring BeatPrints with amazing ideas!
• Shoutout to @Magniquick, @itsnotrin, @wenbang24 and @cherriae for their awesome contributions!

📜 License

BeatPrints is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License:

• Use: Free to share and adapt.
• Attribution: Provide credit and a link to the license.
• NonCommercial: Not for commercial use.
• ShareAlike: Adaptations must follow the same license.

Read the full license here.

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elysianmyst, 2025