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:notes: A Spotify Web API Library for Modern Python
I do not recommend using this package as it is not yet ready for use.
pip install git+https://github.com/skmatz/spotifier.git
import os
import webbrowser # to open URL in browser
from spotifier import Spotify
from spotifier.oauth import SpotifyAuthorizationCode
oauth = SpotifyAuthorizationCode(
client_id=os.environ["SPOTIFY_CLIENT_ID"],
client_secret=os.environ["SPOTIFY_CLIENT_SECRET"],
redirect_uri=os.environ["SPOTIFY_REDIRECT_URI"],
)
webbrowser.open(oauth.get_authorize_url())
url = input("Input redirected URL: ")
code = oauth.parse_response_code(url)
oauth.set_token(code)
client = Spotify(oauth)
print(client.get_current_users_profile()["display_name"]) # your Spotify nickname
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A Spotify Web API Library for Modern Python
We found that spotifier demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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