Using SPOTIPY to search for songs (tempo, key..) in Django (Is it Possible ?)

[SpareDev]

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My Question or Issue

So I am trying to use Spotipy in my school Django project. I´ve read in Django docs that external APIs is not always supported. Before I even begin troubleshooting this does anyone Know if this is doable / or have you tried this yourself  ?

So I am pretty new at coding but, 

my plan is to let users come to my site and search with the Spotipy API to find songs with a specific tempo, key, location, language. I have installed URL, client ID and secret key in a virtual environment env.py as I don´t want the API key to be visible.

I have prior done extensive reading in spotify dev docs to research this and I know saw you can search for lots of characteristics in songs, key, tempo, location, popularity, liveness and many more.

And if you know of any similar Github Django repos that use the spotipy API, please link to these 🤗

[Ximzend · Accepted solution]

Edit: The endpoint described in this reply is deprecated. More information on this page.

You can use the Get Recommendations endpoint: https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/get-recommendations

How to use it with Spotipy, you can read here: https://spotipy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/#spotipy.client.Spotify.recommendations

Note: there isn't an endpoint you can use to search with location or language.

[SpareDev]

Thank you very much, seems like simpler solution than the one I was investigating, which mostly is a good thing. Have you some example where this is written in a repo, as a newb I need to know what goes where 😂

[Ximzend]

Spotipy supports different Cache Handlers. I've found a Django Session Cache Handler in the code, linking to https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.2/topics/http/sessions/

Sadly, I have no knowledge of Django.

[SpareDev]

This is the end result, its not pretty and need some work still. https://bangrad.herokuapp.com/  created a django app with spotify search functionality. You have to log in with your spotify account to use the search function. Would be great to find another solution to having to refresh this access. 

[Ximzend]

I read your post again and I see I made a mistake. You don't need to use the Authorization Code flow to use search functionally. In your case, you could just use Client Credential.