How to Use Spotify's API with Python | Write a Program to Display Artist, Tracks, and More
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- Опубліковано 12 лип 2024
- In this video, Tim from @TechWithTim explains how to gain access to the Spotify API to write a program. You'll learn how to get your Spotify access token and how to use that token to interact with different endpoints so that you can write your own program using data from Spotify.
Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
0:45 Create Spotify Project
5:50 How does Authorization Work?
8:44 Obtain Access Token
12:30 Convert Data to Python Dictionary
13:20 Test Run of our Code
15:00 Write Artist Search Function
20:55 Grabbing Items in Results
25:00 Run our Code
25:16 Clean up the Results
26:00 Conclusion
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Dude, your pace is spot on! Please make everyone that does tutorials adopt your style.
You never disappoint Tim. The official documentation was very difficult to understand, we need more videos like this.
I agree it was well put together, a+
Watch out guys, headers should look like this headers = {"Authorization": "Basic " (
thanks
YOU SAVED ME
I was stuck for like 45 minutes before i saw your comment this saved me
thank you very much this fixed my code even though it was giving me errors elsewhere
thank you so much i was deadass lost for so long
huge help. thank you👍
This was great dude super helpful and I learned a lot
This was fantastic, thank you!
But but nm
thank you so much! it worked perfectly
Great video and clear explanation
Amazinggggg!!!... You just saved me from so much complexity...
Thanks god (and you) for this video, I was going crazy trying to get a token
Thank you so much this is the most simple tutorial I have seen have said so many tutorials but this is the most in simple and the best working😊 climate same what you did and it work properly thank you so much for such amazing tutorial
Thanks so much, helped a lot!
Amazing video thanks!
😂😂you make me laugh, I like the careless and relaxed way and just keep having the editor telling you where you got a small typo, one by one.
Thank you, good job!
It really helped me thanks!!!
Just an advisory for anybody running into the error "KeyError: 'access_token''", it is because it should be data = {"grant_type":"client_credentials"} not data = {"grant-type":"client_credentials"}.
thank you ! was scratching my head at this one
i may have read incorrectly but i am reading them both as the same, i have this issue and i cant seem to fix it
underscore in the first and dash in the second (between grant / type)@@j03_h
thank you so much man i literally never would have figured that out myself
@@j03_h there is an underscore in grant type not -
Nicely done man
Excellent tutorial
I've been getting a 401 error when trying to do this, even though the first day I wrote the code it actually did work. The tokens are updating and changing and I verified my secrets. Great video though, I'm glad you showed how to write the auth token part instead of just using a library.
Thank you so much for detailed video explanation Tim
probably a late answer but i fix that same problem by whitespacecing after word "Basic " in the headers
I also had the same issue.... Had a Semi colon between the concat of my auth string. Glad to see I'm not the only one who had to trouble shoot typos 😆
did you do this because pycurl wasn't working? i'm curious because i've read that pycurl is volunteer run and doesn't work with new versions of python. so this is a good workaround from using cURL
thank you very much. you did the thing that should have been done by the stupid spotify developers who wrote the documentation
Nice and detailed explanation. Is there a way to get a song/artist popularity rank for a given time period? I.e: What was "The Weeknd- Blinding Lights" popularity rank in december 2022?
a doubt like every time i run this program new access token gets generated so what if i want to re use it ?
cuz it has like 1hr life span right?
How do you know/find out to use result.content)["tracks']. instead of ["songs"] for example
hello thank you for the video, but I'm getting this error {'error': {'status': 400, 'message': 'Only valid bearer authentication supported'}}. please how can I resolve this?
on the method get_auth_header should look like this headers = {"Authorization": "Bearer " (
i still cant find the sulotion. facing the same issue.
@@Lil_Hana still having the same error, after check the code of the method get_auth_header?
6:14, can you please make a video that goes over how to authenticate a user so that we can do tasks such as controlling somebody's Spotify player?
Hi there Joe - Thanks for the suggestion! We've passed along your feedback to see if this is something that can be done in the future. In the meantime, you may want to check out Spotify's documentation about authentication or see if their Community forum can help:
developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/concepts/authorization
developer.spotify.com/community
This is great, thank you! How can one modify the scope for this authorization - i.e. if I want to pull history of my recently played songs?
Hey there - you can check out the Spotify API documentation for all of the available scopes, including recently played tracks:
developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/get-recently-played
Thank you @@AkamaiDeveloper! Unfortunately, I couldn't figure out how to modify the authorization flow to access user-level data with your example. Had to use spotipy instead. However, I would appreciate any hints or tips how can I go without it (just for my own knowledge). Thank you :)
Great video🎉...please can someone also play songs in a website using Spotify APIs. Am having some problems doing that
Does anyone know how to get a list of song names and their artists from a playlist using the api? I can't seem to figure it out. Thanks.
Hello, could you please explain how would we ask for the user authorization by login with their account. Thank you so much
Hey there! You may want to reach out to the Spotify Developer Community forum or on Stack Overflow to see if the folks there have any insight they can share regarding your question.
community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-for-Developers/bd-p/Spotify_Developer
stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/spotify
@@AkamaiDeveloper I will do it, thank you so much
@@dominhquanho9319 did you find the answer?
I'm getting a Response [415] error for the result = post() response. This causes the following exception:
raise JSONDecodeError("Expecting value", s, err.value) from None
json.decoder.JSONDecodeError: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)
Any idea as to why this might be? Perhaps something's missing with the header dictionary pointer.
i'm having the exact same problem, were you able to solve it?
I'm having the same issue 😥
import requests and in the result = post() i wrote result = requests.post() which ran the code
is there a way to create playlists with this?
is it possible run a python code in mobile so it starts play spotify in my tv every morning?
is there a way of getting the number of streams for a song ???
For some reason this is nor working if I choose “type=show” in the GET request. It’s driving me nuts
i know you probly can help but when i try to sign the developer agreement it says an error occoured and does nothing
You can use this to get total song count for an artist?
Great video Tim! Are you the same Tim from Algo expert?
Can we download the songs too using this
Till 20:20, my codings ran smoothly from line 1 to line 42 (can print token and json_result). however after I typed in line 45 and 46, reported {'error': {'status': 404, 'message': 'Service not found'}}, I changed the artist name, still didn't work. May I ask what can be potential problems. Thx
Same prblm here, did you find a way of resolution ?
Issue fixed : forgot "?" line 37
@@louiseti4883 No.
Do you have the '?' before the q (in the 'search _for_artist' function)?
"?q={artist_name}&type"
I didn't, and received exactly the same message. (Spotify couldn't read the URL as a result, as the '?' should come after the 'search' part of the URL.)
Also, there should be a market element in the URL, so my line ended up as follows:
query = f"?q={artist_name}&type=artist&limit=1"
I am not working on this project now. But I'll have a try later. Thank you for sharing!@@rootytuners
Hi! Almost the same trouble here, but i get error 401, message “no token provided”. Has anyone been able to solve it yet?
I am getting status code as 400 and I am unable to find the token , anybody can help me with it?
when i create the app, it asks me for a website? i dont fully understand what that is.
same 🥲🥲
Can we play any Track and if so, how many seconds do we get from each Track?
According to this post from the Spotify Developer Forums, you are not able to play full tracks outside of Spotify using the API:
community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-for-Developers/how-do-i-get-the-full-song-link/m-p/5509958
You have to do it diff cause you need more then the token, you need authorization
Sir I have a doubt iam developing a app for my project that should get the music playlist from the Spotify api is this possible plz help me i have searched it and I heard that only the song intro can be taken
You can find the Spotify API documentation on working with playlists here:
developer.spotify.com/documentation/general/guides/working-with-playlists/
If you're having trouble retrieving full song data, you may want to reach out to the Spotify dev community here:
community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-for-Developers/bd-p/Spotify_Developer
@@AkamaiDeveloper ok sir i will see it and ask u doubts if any
I seem to have a problem with the json format of the results. I did do import json and I do get the results from the query but my json viewer says the format is invalid.. Any suggestions?
We suggest trying to view the results in a different json viewer or reaching out to the wider Spotify Developer Community here:
community.spotify.com/
how would i adapt this to look for a user's top tracks?
This post in the Spotify Dev Forums has the API call you use to find the top tracks and albums for a user:
community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-for-Developers/Status-Code-403-from-Spotify-API-When-Requesting-User-s-Top/m-p/5477788#M7426
If this isn't what you're looking for, we suggest reaching out there for more help.
My question is very basic for someone who started playing with ETL and APIs this week...How the hell with the information I have on the spotify Web API , i would be able to understand which things we really need to have the access token?For example, I understand in the documentation we have the parameters, headers etc...but the last part of your code, the variable result it comes from the body request, which for what I understand it is basic for any API this last part, to send a request?Hope someone understood my question ahah
Great tutorial, but I’m having trouble writing code to pull user data that can’t be accessed through client credentials? As in a users currently playing song. I want to write the code in python but I am having trouble finding a tutorial on how
using authorization code flow instead of client cridential for authentication might also help
You may want to reach out on the Spotify Community Forums or Stack Overflow for help with this question:
community.spotify.com/
stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/spotify+python
@@nemoterbogt6905 8
Had the same issue. Used spotipy instead.
Hey great video, thank you :) I keep getting an error "KeyError: 'access_token'" - pls could you advise? Many thanks 😃
This could be because your access token expired. This post from Stack Overflow has a bit more information including Spotify Authorization info:
stackoverflow.com/questions/60980531/spotify-api-authorization-token-key-error-python3
@@AkamaiDeveloper Got it working, thanks sm!
That's excellent, we're always happy to hear whenever anyone is able to successfully use our project ideas!
@linode could you please tell me what changes you made to make this work! thanks
@@shivajeetrai1618did you find out how? I’m struggling with this as well
Nice thumbnail
I am getting an error: " result = get(query_url, headers=headers) NameError: name 'get' is not defined. Did you mean: 'set'?" at 20:36 mark. Someone knows how to fix it?
I had this error too. At 19:32, he also imported "get" the same way he did the method "post" earlier in the vid. Once I did that, it worked for me.
Can you do one with Java?
is it open AP|I?
I love you
If you are getting this eauth_base64 = base64.b64encode(auth_bytes).decode("utf-8")rror: UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xf1 in position 0: invalid continuation byte.
Try this: auth_base64 = base64.b64encode(auth_bytes).decode("utf-8")
lifesaver!!
Does anyone know what the reason behind this error is?
I'm looking to make a python program that can play a song of the users choosing on the spotify application, similar to how google home can get a song from a users request and play said song, does anyone know if this is possible?
You might be interested in checking out Spotipy which is a Python library of Spotify's API:
spotipy.readthedocs.io/en/2.22.1/q
Thanks! I'll have a look over now 😁
I’m stuck on trying to get the token I keep getting “{‘error’: ‘invalid_client’}” any suggestions?
Hey there - we suggest reviewing the Client Credentials API documentation:
developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/tutorials/client-credentials-flow
Alternatively, you can check out this post from Stack Overflow where someone responded with a potential solution:
stackoverflow.com/a/67608910
Hey great video, THANK YOU . I keep getting an error "KeyError: 'access_token'"
pls could you advise?
"Authorization": "Basic " + auth_base64, # Add space after "Basic"
data = {"grant_type": "client_credentials"} # Change 'grant-type' to 'grant_type'
These issues fixed it for me
@@karanchhangani000 damn, that space saved the day haha, thank you!
@@karanchhangani000 bro the space got me tweakin
For some reason all I get is "enter the URL you were redirected to" on the console whereas the URL I am redirected to just says "Error, something went wrong"
same
Thank for your video! But i got {'error': {'status': 404, 'message': 'Service not found'}}。
Who can help me plz
This might be a recent development, but my dashboard is demanding a "Redirect URI" when creating a app. Not sure what this is.
same man, did you get the solution for that?
This thread on the Spotify Developer Forum has a potential solution for the Redirect URI issue you're seeing:
community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-for-Developers/Redirect-URI-needed/m-p/5067419
result = post(url, header=header, data=data)
NameError: name 'post' is not defined
I am getting this please help me on this
from requests import post
can i do this with jupyter notebook?
Since Jupyter notebooks are a place to run your code, you should be able to create this project within a notebook. If you run into issues, you can reach out in the Jupyter Notebook Forum:
discourse.jupyter.org/c/notebook/31
The code runs successfully unless I specify specific result items: artist_id = result["id"]
TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not subscriptable
I can see the artist info in the terminal output prior to the error
Discovered that I had an underscore rather than a hyphen in top-tracks! All good!
how did you fix that
{
"error": {
"status": 401,
"message": "No token provided"
}
}
how do i correct this error
In this thread from the Spotify Developer Forum the user was able to resolve their issue by double-checking their endpoint URL:
community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-for-Developers/401-No-token-provided/m-p/5352949
You may want to look into that site for additional resources as well.
I just mispelled "Authorization" in the get_auth_header and got that error
{'error': {'status': 401, 'message': 'Invalid access token'}}
I'm getting the same error, did you ever get it fixed
@@matthewstephens8436 Yeah, I fixed it, but I don't remember how.
This is neat which the documentation fails to provide.
bro in output im getting none none
try to save both files first
@@coolerbast1 thankyou bro worked for me
Well explained video for a terrible API.
Honestly that API documentation is a nightmare
Yeah no.. It's official.
I have a strong issue in the decoding.
What's strange is that if I put "utf-8" in line 17 i get:
auth_base64 = str(base64.b64decode(auth_bytes), "utf-8")
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xf7 in position 0: invalid start byte
while if I remove "utf-8" meaning that utf-8 is provided anyway, I get:
{'error': 'invalid_client'}
Anyone knows how to fix it? Ty
This post from Stack Overflow addresses the 'UnicodeDecodeError' and should get you pointed in the right direction:
stackoverflow.com/questions/18171739/unicodedecodeerror-when-reading-csv-file-in-pandas-with-python/18172249#18172249
@@AkamaiDeveloper ♥
why isnt pip being recognised for me?
Depending on your operating system and the version of Python you have installed, you may need to specify the version of pip you'd like to use - pip or pip3. You can check out the following resources for more information:
www.linode.com/docs/guides/installing-and-importing-modules-in-python-3/#install-modules-in-python-3
dev.to/softhunt/what-is-the-difference-between-pip-and-pip3-5haj
I am getting 404 error any help please
ah same.. could you fix it ?
I was getting this too. What I did was go back and add in the "?" to the query_url and then it worked
error 404 service not found error
I´m getting the same error.
Some earlier commenters were also having that same issue and someone replied with this solution:
"What I did was go back and add in the "?" to the query_url and then it worked"
ua-cam.com/video/WAmEZBEeNmg/v-deo.html&lc=Ugy9k6gQcXRoOOzGxQV4AaABAg.9pNsnDfyxcA9q3qkGjQhY1
You may also want to check out this post from the Spotify Community forum:
community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-for-Developers/Can-t-get-users-recently-played-after-following-the/m-p/5593392
Putting a "?" at the beginning helped !@@AkamaiDeveloper
Lll
loving this video, but already ran into my first problem where I was getting the error:
*auth_base64 = str(base64.b64decode(auth_bytes), "utf-8")*
*UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xdb in position 0: invalid continuation byte*
nothing fixed it until I changed:
*auth_string = client_id + ":" + client_secret*
*auth_bytes = auth_string.encode("utf-8")*
*auth_base64 = str(base64.b64decode(auth_bytes), "utf-8")*
To:
*encoded_creds = base64.b64encode(client_id.encode() + b":" + client_secret.encode()).decode('utf-8')*
hope this helps anyone getting similar issues
Thank you!
also did that
auth_string = client_id + ":" + client_secret
auth_bytes = auth_string.encode(encoding="utf-8")
auth_base64 = str(base64.b64decode(auth_bytes))
Hey did you eventually have it all running=
Dunno...
First I got the error at line 15
auth_base64 = str(base64.b64decode(auth_bytes), "utf-8")
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xdb in position 0: invalid continuation byte
nothing fixed it until I changed:
auth_string = client_id + ":" + client_secret
auth_bytes = auth_string.encode("utf-8")
auth_base64 = str(base64.b64decode(auth_bytes), "utf-8")
To:
encoded_creds = base64.b64encode(client_id.encode() + b":" + client_secret.encode()).decode('utf-8') .
Now I have "KeyError: 'access_token'"
I also solved like that, but still not the keyerror
auth_string = client_id + ":" + client_secret
auth_bytes = auth_string.encode(encoding="utf-8")
auth_base64 = str(base64.b64decode(auth_bytes))