
short_term : approximately last 4 weeks of listening. The time range options, as specified in Spotify’s documentation, are: The arguments I provide indicate 50 songs as the limit, the index of the first item to return, and the time range. In the results section, I specify the information to pull. Token = util.prompt_for_user_token(username, scope) Sp = spotipy.Spotify(client_credentials_manager=client_credentials_manager) username = ""Ĭlient_credentials_manager = Spotif圜lientCredentials(client_id=cid, client_secret=secret) The first time this code is run, the user will have to provide their Sptofy username and password when prompted in the web browser. Os.environ=' Then, I work through the authorization flow from the Spotipy documentation. Secret = "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX" Then, I set the environmental variables to include the the client ID, client secret, and the redirect URI. Next, I define the client ID and secret to what has been assigned to my application from the Spotify API. Spotipy to provide an authorization flow for logging in to a Spotify account and obtain current top tracks for export.įrom spotipy.oauth2 import Spotif圜lientCredentials. Python’s json library to encode the data. This will temporarily set the credentials in the environmental variables. Python’s OS library to facilitate the client ID, client secret, and redirect API for the code using the computer’s operating system. This will pull the data and put it in a JSON file format. Then, I write the code to make the request to the API.
This will come in handy later when logging into a specific Spotify account to pull data. Next, from the application page, in ‘Edit Settings’, in Redirect URIs, I add. This provides both a client ID and client secret for your application to be used when making requests to the API. Top 50 Spotify Songs Top 50 songs from my personal Spotify account, extracted using the Spotify API.Ĭosmic Hero (Live at the Tramshed, Cardiff, Wa.įirst, I created an account with Spotify for Developers and created a client ID from the dashboard. I’ll go over how to get the fifty most popular songs from a user’s Spotify account using spotipy, clean the data, and produce visualizations in Python. I used the Spotify Web API to pull the top songs from my personal account.