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Get Access token without user interaction?

Dnicky079 — Mon, 13 Sep 2021 00:34:52 GMT

So this has been bothering me for the longest. I’ve created a script using the Spotipy library. I’m collecting data on my most recently played tracks.

Everything is fine except refreshing the access token. I have a bit of code which returns the token. When i run it in Jupyter Notebook It briefly opens and closes the web browser then returns my token. This is great.

However when i run it on google cloud my function ends up timing out with a log saying.

’user authentication requires user interaction for web browser’

so my question is is there ANY way of completely automating the process of getting an access token without needing me to do anything. I posted this on stackoverflow here

Re: Get Access token without user interaction?

Peter_Schorn — Mon, 13 Sep 2021 01:29:57 GMT

so my question is is there ANY way of completely automating the process of getting an access token without needing me to do anything

No. You only need to go through the authorization process once, after which the access token can be automatically refreshed using the refresh token.

If you want to run your code on google cloud, then authorize your app the first time with a local script, then find a way of persistently storing the authorization information such that it can be accessed by your code on google cloud.

More specifically, when you authorize the user using spotipy, a JSON file will be created with your authorization information. You need to find a way to access and update this file from Google Cloud.