🎬 AI DJ: Text-to-Spotify playlist generator with Linkup and GPT4

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Description

Stop manually searching for songs and let an AI DJ do the work for you. This template provides a complete, end-to-end system that transforms any text prompt into a ready-to-play Spotify playlist. It combines the creative understanding of a powerful AI Agent with the real-time web knowledge of Linkup to curate perfect, up-to-the-minute playlists for any occasion.

The experience is seamless: simply describe the vibe you’re looking for in a web form, and the workflow will automatically create the playlist in your Spotify account and redirect you straight to it. Whether you need “upbeat funk for a sunny afternoon” or “moody electronic tracks for late-night coding,” your personal AI DJ is ready to deliver.

Who is this for?

• Music lovers: Create hyper-specific playlists for any mood, activity, or niche genre without the hassle of manual searching.
• DJs & event planners: Quickly generate themed playlists for parties, weddings, or corporate events based on a simple brief.
• Content creators: Easily create companion playlists for your podcasts, videos, or articles to share with your audience.
• n8n developers: A powerful example of how to build an AI agent that uses an external web-search tool to accomplish a creative task.

What problem does this solve?

• Creates up-to-date playlists: A standard AI doesn’t know about music released yesterday. By using Linkup’s live web search, this workflow can find and include the very latest tracks.
• Automates the entire creation process: It handles everything from understanding a vague prompt (like “songs that feel like a summer road trip”) to creating a fully populated Spotify playlist.
• Saves time and effort: It completely eliminates the tedious task of searching for individual tracks, checking for relevance, and manually adding them to a playlist one by one.
• Provides a seamless user experience: The workflow begins with a simple form and ends by automatically opening the finished playlist in your browser. There are no intermediate steps for you to manage.

How it works

1. Submit your playlist idea: You describe the playlist you want and the desired number of tracks in a simple, Spotify-themed web form.
2. The AI DJ plans the search: An AI Agent (acting as your personal DJ) analyzes your request. It then intelligently formulates a specific query to find the best music.
3. Web research with Linkup: The agent uses its Linkup web-search tool to find artists and tracks from across the web that perfectly match your request, returning a list of high-quality suggestions.
4. The AI DJ curates the list: The agent reviews the search results and finalizes the tracklist and a creative name for your playlist.
5. Build the playlist in Spotify: The workflow takes the agent’s final list, creates a new public playlist in your Spotify account, then searches for each individual track to get its ID and adds them all.
6. Instant redirection: As soon as the last track is added, the workflow automatically redirects your browser to the newly created playlist on Spotify, ready to be played.

Setup

1. Connect your accounts: You will need to add your credentials for:
   • Spotify: In the Spotify nodes.
   • Linkup: In the Web query to find tracks (HTTP Request Tool) node. Linkup’s free plan is very generous!
   • Your AI provider (e.g., OpenAI): In the OpenAI Chat Model node.
2. Activate the workflow: Toggle the workflow to “Active.”
3. Use the form: Open the URL from the On form submission trigger and start creating playlists!

Taking it further

• Change the trigger: Instead of a form, trigger the playlist creation from a Telegram message, a Discord bot command, or even a webhook from another application.
• Create collaborative playlists: Set up a workflow where multiple people can submit song ideas. You could then have a final AI step consolidate all the requests into a single, cohesive prompt to generate the ultimate group playlist.
• Optimize for speed: The Web query to find tracks node is set to deep search mode for the highest quality results. You can change this to standard mode for faster and cheaper (but potentially less thorough) playlist creation.

🔗 Nodes Used

Spotify, AI Agent, OpenAI Chat Model, Structured Output Parser, n8n Form Trigger, n8n Form

📥 Import

Download workflow.json and import into n8n: Workflow menu → Import from File

📖 Importing guide · 🔑 Credential setup