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Using the Spotify API
Login to your Spotify Account here to link it to Spotify for Developers -
Create an app
Click the button, or use this link -
Fill in the form
Application Name and Application Description fields are not that important - just choose something sensible.
Go to an endpoint in the Interactive console on the developer website
Here's the Search endpoint
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Get a token
There's a field called OAuth Token - Alarm clock app spotify iphone.
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Click GET OAUTH TOKEN next to it.
Click REQUEST TOKEN.
Click OKAY.
Click REQUEST TOKEN.
Click OKAY.
Copy the key into a safe place
This token will expire in a hour, but some tokens you use may be indefinite. There are bots that scan GitHub for these keys to abuse them. Maybe there's not much damage someone can do with a Spotify key. But if someone had your AWS one..they could spin up a million servers and charge it to your credit card!
The solution is to stick it in another file that you then
.gitignore
.Use the token in our request
Before we send our request (ie before
request.send()
) we need to include this token in our request so Spotify can authorize us -Java Spotify Api
Remember
The token only lasts an hour so you may need to go back to the developer site to get a new one for your
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spotifyToken.js
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You'll know you need to this if you get a 401 Unauthorized error in your console. (If you get this error earlier you may not have pasted the token in correctly).
Further
We should really automate this token generation..one for further reading -