# Install shpotify with Homebrew, chocolatey, Nix, scoop, winget

Command-line interface for Spotify on a Mac. Version 2.1 via Homebrew; verified from local package data.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:shpotify
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install shpotify
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#spotify
```

  Evidence: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/sp/spotify/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

### Windows

- Chocolatey (92%):

```sh
choco install spotify
```

  Evidence: Chocolatey community package catalog: spotify from http://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2/Packages?$filter=IsLatestVersion&$select=Id&$top=1000&$skiptoken='11','sonarscanner-msbuild-net46'

- Scoop (92%):

```sh
scoop install extras/spotify
```

  Evidence: Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/spotify.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Extras/git/trees/master?recursive=1

- winget (92%):

```sh
winget install --id Spotify.Spotify -e
```

  Evidence: Windows Package Manager source index: Spotify.Spotify from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:shpotify
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Package manager page:** <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/shpotify>
- **Version:** 2.1
- **Source summary:** Command-line interface for Spotify on a Mac
- **Homepage:** <https://harishnarayanan.org/projects/shpotify/>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/hnarayanan/shpotify>
- **Upstream docs:** <https://github.com/hnarayanan/shpotify#readme>
- **License:** MIT
- **Source archive:** <https://github.com/hnarayanan/shpotify/archive/refs/tags/2.1.tar.gz>
- **Generated:** 2026-07-08T07:18:31+00:00

## Executables

- spotify (cli)
- spotify (alias)

## Install behavior

- Post-install hook: not defined
- Bottle: available on all

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-07-08
- Package-manager version: 2.1
- Local data: ok
- Upstream repository: https://github.com/hnarayanan/shpotify
- Upstream latest detected: 2.1 (current)
- info: No package-manager update timestamp was available.

## Security Notes

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger risk:** green / low
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals


## Configuration and credential file locations

These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.


## Configuration files

- macOS: ~/.shpotify.cfg

## Credential files

- macOS: ~/.shpotify.cfg
## Source Database Details

- **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API
- **Tap:** homebrew/core
- **Full Name:** shpotify
- **Version Scheme:** 0
- **Revision:** 0
- **Head Version:** HEAD
- **Bottle Stable Root URL:** <https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core>
- **Deprecated:** no
- **Disabled:** no
- **Keg Only:** no
- **URL Keys:** head, stable

## Other Package-Manager Records

- Nix - spotify: installed executable or alias match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/sp/spotify/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Chocolatey - spotify: installed executable or alias match | Chocolatey community package catalog: spotify from http://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2/Packages?$filter=IsLatestVersion&$select=Id&$top=1000&$skiptoken='11','sonarscanner-msbuild-net46'
- Scoop - extras/spotify: installed executable or alias match | Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/spotify.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Extras/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- winget - Spotify.Spotify: installed executable or alias match | Windows Package Manager source index: Spotify.Spotify from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix


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## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/shpotify.yml](https://github.com/automic-vault/db/blob/main/combined/shpotify.yml)


## Sources

- Nucleus package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- package-page enrichment
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- package version freshness
- av.db category and tag curation
- package relationship graph
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph