Get Spotify Web API data using Python

introduction

This project contains multiple files, each representing a section in the Spotify Web API. The current functions have only GET APIs from the WEB APIs. The Spotify API has different forms of authentication/authorization. Specifically for User Data APIs, the Authorization Code Flow is used. It forces a user to login via a browser and approve/authorize the particular action on the user data before proceeding.

Description

This project contains multiple files, each representing a section in the Spotify Web API. The current functions have only GET APIs from the WEB APIs. The Spotify API has different forms of authentication/authorization. Specifically for User Data APIs, the Authorization Code Flow is used. It forces a user to login via a browser and approve/authorize the particular action on the user data before proceeding. Since these are purely APIs, I created a simple FastAPI app that acts as the callback endpoint to receive the authorization code to be used in such cases that require the Authorization Code Flow.

Running the code

• Clone the project into a local directory
• Change directory to the root of the project and install requirements with pip install -r requirements.txt
• Fill the required information in the base/config.ini file as specified below. It contains the credentials and sensitive data needed to run the code. (NB: The REDIRECT_URI needs to be the one that the Fast API is running on. Remember to set it in the APP settings on the Spotify Dashboard)
• For all User Data APIs, change directory into the web, i.e cd web and start the FastAPI server with the command uvicorn main:app --reload. Or from the root directory, run uvicorn web.main:app --reload. Otherwise for all other APIs, the Fast API can be ignored
• Run the particular module with python {filename}
• For User Data APIs, a link is printed to the terminal which should be copied and pasted in the browser for authenticating and authorizing such an action on the user data
• After successfully authenticating, the result should be printed to the terminal.
• Otherwise, an error will be printed to the terminal.

Sample config.ini

[CLIENT_CREDENTIALS]
CLIENT_ID=
CLIENT_SECRET=
AUTH_URL=https://accounts.spotify.com/api/token
BASE_URL= https://api.spotify.com/v1

[AUTHCODE_FLOW]
BASE_URL=https://accounts.spotify.com/authorize?
RESPONSE_TYPE=code
SCOPE=user-library-read
REDIRECT_URI=http://localhost:8000/

Packages

• requests
• fastapi