Spotify SDK for Python

[jonathang09]

Hi Spotify Developers,

Like many people in recent threads, I’m disappointed by some of the recent changes to the developer experience. That said, I still plan to keep building, and I know many others will too, so I wanted to share something useful for Python developers.

Spotify doesn’t currently have an official Python SDK. While building projects, I kept running into limitations with existing third-party options: limited async support, maintenance gaps, and older patterns. A few weeks ago, I started building a Python SDK for the Spotify Web API and then polished it into a community project. I’m genuinely excited about how fast it’s improving, and it’s still in the early stages, so feedback is especially valuable.

Links:

• Documentation

What it currently offers:

• First-class async and sync clients (AsyncSpotifyClient and SpotifyClient)
• Type-safe Pydantic models for responses with full type hints
• Built-in retries with exponential backoff for rate limits and transient failures
• Auth support for client credentials and authorization code flow
• Growing coverage across albums, artists, tracks, playlists, users, audiobooks, and chapters. (docs)

This is not a commercial product. It’s free and open source, and I’m sharing it to collaborate with other developers. If anyone is interested, I’d really value:

• feature requests
• bug reports
• testing feedback

I’d also love to hear how others are adapting their developer workflows under the new access model.