PYTHON

Spotify API Authentication in Python

Spotify API Authentication in Python




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# Author: @Ashutosh_Rana                  # 

# Github: Mindquaker                      # 

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import requests

import os 

from dotenv import load_dotenv, find_dotenv

load_dotenv(find_dotenv())

AUTH_URL= "https://accounts.spotify.com/api/token" #url for authentication 

clientID = os.getenv("CLIENT_ID") #client id from the spotify api

clientSecret = os.getenv("CLIENT_SECRET") #client secret from sptify api

#authentication request 

auth_response = requests.post(AUTH_URL, 

{  'grant_type': 'client_credentials', 

  'client_id' :clientID, 

 'client_secret' : clientSecret, 

 } 

)     

auth_response_data = auth_response.json() #Respononse from the api 

 auth_token = auth_response_data["access_token"] #authentication token 

  header = { #authentication header for the get request 

 'Authorization': 'Bearer {token}'.format(token=auth_token) 

 }