Building A Spotify Recommendation Engine With Python (TUTORIAL)

In this video, I walk you through how I built a Spotify Recommendation System from scratch in Python. This video is meant for ALL experience levels! I know this video is long so take a look at the timestamps below to find out which section interests you!

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Outline:
00:00 - Intro
01:05 - Approach Overview
04:56 - Start of Feature Engineering
08:56 - TF-IDF Overview
12:52 - Leveraging Spotify API
16:32 - Creating a Playlist Vector
20:37 - Cosine Similarity Overview
22:25 - Spotify v. Madhav (Results Comparison)
24:59 - Outro

[MadhavThaker]

I had such a blast making this video! Please bear with the Low Res Zoom recordings lol

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[chevrotain]

WOW! Absolutely incredible man, I'm doing my final year project and I'm trying to do some playlist organisation stuff with algorithmic components. This is absolutely what I was looking for, a perfect place to start. I'll be reading deeper into neural networks and such from this video as I want to go for a more complex approach, but I love the stuff man! keep up the awesome work, and thanks for making it so accessible!!

[thriftsimple]

If I could just have stuff like this that I watch for 4 hours a day, then build for the other 4 hours of a normal workday. I don't have access to people / coworkers with this knowledge which makes it incredibly difficult to immerse myself in it. I think this and building would be a perfect combo! Thanks for the videos!

[rosagradilla]

Love this content! Thank you very much for sharing! I think I'd be super interesting to see a series on how to solve a business problem using ML/DS, so taking a problem you've worked with before at Disney (or maybe something tangential, if you can't disclose that) and walk us through your thought process and all the steps required! I would love to see that

[arkaseth]

Wonderful! Also, I just subscribed and I'm the 1000th subscriber!

[littlekingbastard]

thank you for making this video its awesome

[jeremygismondi]

love this my man... my goal is to create a recommender system for my final project and your tutorial has been super clear and helpful in getting me started.

[jaggyjut]

How does one deploy the model in a cloud platform and then consume in front end app like react. That will be great tutorial. Thanks

[wickkey]

00:02 Building a Spotify recommendation engine from scratch in Python.
01:50 Using a content-based recommendation system to generate recommendations based on summarizing a playlist in Spotify.
05:39 Creating one hot encoded features of the year and a bucketed version of popularity
07:36 Using tf-idf to create features based on song genres.
11:58 The video demonstrates how to build a Spotify recommendation engine using Python.
13:49 The Spotify API provides a Python library with amazing features to easily access and extract live data from Spotify.
17:49 Using recency bias to prioritize songs added more recently in the playlist.
19:38 Generating recommendations based on cosine similarity using a playlist vector and feature set vector.
23:40 Similar recommendations between Spotify and the built recommendation engine
25:14 Closing remarks and feedback request

[cheatjoc]

Hey! I was very impressed by your vid! Thank you for uploading this for all to see. I literally want to get into machine learning just to do things like this. right now I am going through the Andrew Ng Machine Learning Coursera course. What specific topics do you think I should look at after that in order to understand what was going on in this vid?

[zebasxa]

I am doing a recommender system for a market but I don't know which variables I should take.

[jayadeep]

sir its an excellent video but i have a query, at time 16:04 what is spotify_df we need to give

[eurecker]

The github link isnt working. I cant seem to open the main code file

[abhishekmagar]

i can't find the dataset could you please give us the link

[monuagarwal]

Can you please provide me the dataset, the kaggle link is showing error 404

[viln]

Is there a way to make my own recommendations using my own spotify account data?

[sololife]

unfortunately, the dataset is not available anymore in kaggle

[retr]

We can also personalise the dataset right? or will it be difficult?

[rlopezra]

Great video! Quick question, what did you use to create the illustrations in your jupyter notebook?

[souravrajeev]

I wannc write a dissertation about this music recommendations topic. What do you think are the current gaps in this field ?