topic Re: Get Currently Playing Track in Spotify for Developers

Get Currently Playing Track

SlumberDemon — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 19:09:44 GMT

Hi, I have recently started using the spotify developer api. I have experimented with https://developer.spotify.com/console/get-users-currently-playing-track/

To use the endpoint I generated a temporary token using the "Get Token" button to test out the endpoint. After creating an app in the dashboard section and obtaining the token I would test the endpoint again only to get this error:

{
  "error": {
    "status": 404,
    "message": "Invalid username"
  }
}

How do I specify the user to get currently playing track from? I tried things like ?user="username" but It still gave the same error

Re: Get Currently Playing Track

Ximzend — Wed, 07 Sep 2022 14:44:56 GMT

Sorry for my late response. I'm currently the only one who's answering questions on this board.

I haven't seen that error before. The Get Currently Playing Track endpoint doesn't need a username.

Note: You have to implement the Authorization Code Flow first to get access tokens. The access token from the console are for testing purposes in that console only.

Re: Get Currently Playing Track

SlumberDemon — Wed, 07 Sep 2022 14:52:54 GMT

How can I get the currently playing with the token of an application?

Re: Get Currently Playing Track

SlumberDemon — Wed, 07 Sep 2022 14:54:49 GMT

I don't want to use the console token, I want to use the token from my application to get the currently playing track

Re: Get Currently Playing Track

Ximzend — Thu, 08 Sep 2022 08:04:30 GMT

Like I said in my Note: You have to implement the Authorization Code Flow to get access tokens for your app.

What programming language are you currently using? Maybe there is a Web API Wrapper in that language that can make things a lot easier.

Re: Get Currently Playing Track

SlumberDemon — Fri, 09 Sep 2022 06:01:06 GMT

I am using python

Re: Get Currently Playing Track

Ximzend — Fri, 09 Sep 2022 11:00:22 GMT

Then I recommend you to use the python module spotipy. You can find its documentation here.