topic Re: starting out using Spotify API in Spotify for Developers

starting out using Spotify API

glrider — Sun, 20 Nov 2022 03:31:45 GMT

Plan

Premium

Country

Canada (but currently vacationing in Mexico)

Device

Notebook

Operating System

POP!OS Linux

Maybe I am way out of my element here, but I am interested in trying to use the Spotify API to search if an album exists on Spotify or not. Using the Console I have been able to build a curl statement that I can use in a shl script on my Linux Laptop and I can get back the data of all albums by the artist specified in the curl statement. However my script only seems to work for about minutes. I am making an assumption this is because the token is expiring. I have searched for the internet and found a few code examples to renew a token but it is not clear what language it is in. Could someone tell me do I need to know Python, Java Script, etc. to be able to do what I want to do? I know shl very well but don't know much about the above languages.

Re: starting out using Spotify API

Ximzend — Sun, 20 Nov 2022 15:57:17 GMT

Hi glrider, welcome to the Community!

Yes, I recommend you to learn a programming language. Also, I recommend you to use a Web API Wrapper.

I always use the Web API Wrapper for Python called Spotipy (GitHub / Documentation). It's light wait and easy to use.

Cheers,

Re: starting out using Spotify API

glrider — Sun, 20 Nov 2022 13:28:29 GMT

Thanks Ximend,

Glad to be here.

Which programming language do you suggest I learn? Which is best? I see from the API wrapper list, there is Perl. I already know Perl. Is that a good option for what I want to do?

Re: starting out using Spotify API

Ximzend — Sun, 20 Nov 2022 14:26:46 GMT

Hi,

Because you already know Perl, I recommend you to use the WWW-Spotify wrapper for Perl. (The other one is outdated and not maintained since 2016.)

Good luck with your project.

Cheers,

Re: starting out using Spotify API

glrider — Sun, 20 Nov 2022 17:36:03 GMT

Okay I downloaded the wrapper. Looking at the documentation it seems I need to install spotipy first, but it doesn't seem to be available for POP!_OS. Do you know that to be true?

Re: starting out using Spotify API

glrider — Sun, 20 Nov 2022 17:54:36 GMT

Okay I downloaded the source code from 'https://github.com/plamere/spotipy'. Do I unzip it to whatever directory I want? I am assuming there is something I have to do to my PATH or set other environmental variables for things to work?

Re: starting out using Spotify API

Ximzend — Sun, 20 Nov 2022 19:18:14 GMT

In the terminal, you just could do: pip3 install spotipy

Or if you've downloaded the code and unzipped it somewhere, go with the terminal inside that folder and do: python3 setup.py install

You can remove that folder and the zip after installation.