404 Error when using Spotify API

[elinewman13]

Plan

Premium

Country

USA

Device

Desktop Windows 10

Operating System

Windows 10

My Question or Issue

I am trying to use the Spotify API server to server authentication and I keep getting a 404 error. I am using the correct client and secret id and have gone through all resources online trying to find a solution.

[Hubo]

Hey @elinewman13, help's here!

Let's dive into this. You can use export commands (in Terminal) to set these variables for your OS. 

export SPOTIPY_CLIENT_ID=client_id_here
export SPOTIPY_CLIENT_SECRET=client_secret_here

// on Windows, use `SET` instead of `export`

Alternatively, you can in Python set them with these:

os.environ["SPOTIPY_CLIENT_ID"] = "(my client id)"
os.environ["SPOTIPY_CLIENT_SECRET"] = "(my client secret)"

There's more information about this here: https://github.com/plamere/spotipy. Let me know if you have any questions.

Have a good one,

Hubo