Spotify API Experiments

This is a collection of experimentations with the Spotipy python library.

All of these scripts will request an auth token for a particular user (username arg) upon startup. When this is triggered, the browser (on the machine the script is running on) will open with a spotify login/approval screen. If the user does not authorize the app, the script will die with a traceback. There is an option to change the auth-type to "Client Credentials Manager" mode, where only non-user API endpoints may be accessed. This is accomplished by simply not providing any arguments to spotipy.util.authorize_api() if the id and secret are configured inside set_env.sh.

From my experimentation so far, this will remember that the app was previously authorized for whatever "authorization scope" was approved by the user at the oauth screen. If a new auth-scope is presented, the user will be prompted to authorize the application again and mark the "new" requested permissions.

1. save_now_playing.py - This script will poll for the user's now playing track every 10s and update a text file
2. get_user_auth.py - "Hello World" from the docs, this shows how to authorize using env
3. save_all_playlist.py - This script will pull all of the user's playlists into .json files. This currently exports too much data to be usable by anything yet
4. top_tracks.py - This will save the user's top 20 tracks to a .json file. This currently exports too much data to be usable by anything yet

To get started:

• Create an app on Spotify's Developer console - https://beta.developer.spotify.com
• Clone this repository
• Ensure that you have "python-pip", and "python-virtualenv" installed
• Run virtualenv venv to create a new python environment
• Edit "set_env.sh" to configure your API ID, Secret, and redirect using the information from your previously created app
• Configure your environment by running set_env.sh
• Run pip install -r requirements.txt to install the required dependencies
• git clone https://github.com/alopexc0de/spotipy.git into venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/spotipy
  • If using "server" from util.authorize_api(), include a port higher than 1024 inside SPOTIPY_REDIRECT_URI. For example: "http://localhost:8000/"
• Run any of the scripts to use them

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Copyright (c) 2014 Paul Lamere - https://github.com/plamere/spotipy Copyright (c) 2018 c0de <c0defox.es, gama.io>

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