starting out using Spotify API

[glrider]

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.

[Ximzend]

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,

[glrider]

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?

[Ximzend]

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 (The other one is outdated and not maintained since 2016.)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,

[glrider]

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?

[glrider]

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?

[Ximzend]

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.