Spotify-API-Client

This is a Spotify API client I created that has the ability to automatically refresh tokens and comes with robust search functionality. It comes with 2 versions: version 1 (../client/Spotify_Client.py) uses the client credentials flow auth process from spotify's API and version 2 (../client/Spotify_Client_V2.py) uses the Authentication Code flow auth process from spotify's API.

Purpose: In my spotify account, I have a huge playlist of over 2,000 songs because I could not be bothered to create smaller playlists for different purposes and that is generally how I like to listen to music, but there came multiple times when I wanted to listen to songs from a particular artist; I could do this by simply playing songs on the artists' profile but I only wanted to listen to songs from that artist that I liked (which would be the ones in my playlist), and there the idea was born. I could have used other spotify API client's like spotipy but I wanted to build one for myself so I would use it for my particular functionality and build to my liking as well as make it modular enough to where I can build additional features on top of it whenever I wanted to do so.

The project is equipped with a command line interface (CLI) which is how the interaction with user playlist functionality is implemented. Instructions for use are on the way!

There are a lot of features that will be built onto this project but this is the initial main feature. I am certainly open to new ideas and ways for implementation so feel free to hit me up with any suggestions.

SETUP

• First thing you need to do is to create a congig.env that contains the environment variables (Spotify client id and client secret from your spotify app on developer.spotify.com). Follow the same format in the configEnvSample.txt file to create your env file.
• You will need to install the latest version of python https://realpython.com/installing-python/
• You will also need to install pip: https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/installation/
• cd into the project directory.
• Use pip to install pipenv : pip install pipenv
• Run the command: pipenv shell
• You will need to install the following modules:
  • python-dotenv: pipenv install python-dotenv
  • python requests: pipenv install requests

Running the program

To run the program (playlist feature), navigate to the /client directory and run the PlaylistFeatureCLI.py file (../client/PlaylistFeatureCLI.py) in the terminal and follow the instructions carefully.