I am trying out spotipy with python 2.7.10 preinstalled on my mac 10.10, specifically [add_a_saved_track.py][1] Here is the code as copied from github:
# Add tracks to 'Your Collection' of saved tracks
import pprint
import sys
import spotipy
import spotipy.util as util
scope = 'user-library-modify'
if len(sys.argv) > 2:
username = sys.argv[1]
tids = sys.argv[2:]
else:
print("Usage: %s username track-id ..." % (sys.argv[0],))
sys.exit()
token = util.prompt_for_user_token(username, scope)
if token:
sp = spotipy.Spotify(auth=token)
sp.trace = False
results = sp.current_user_saved_tracks_add(tracks=tids)
pprint.pprint(results)
else:
print("Can't get token for", username)
I registered the application with developer.spotify.com/my-applications and received client_id and client_secret. I am a bit unclear about selection of redirect_uri so I set that to 'https://play.spotify.com/collection/songs'
Running this from terminal I get an error that says:
You need to set your Spotify API credentials. You can do this by
setting environment variables like so:
export SPOTIPY_CLIENT_ID='your-spotify-client-id'
export SPOTIPY_CLIENT_SECRET='your-spotify-client-secret'
export SPOTIPY_REDIRECT_URI='your-app-redirect-url'
I put that into my code with the id, secret, and url as strings, just following the imports but above the util.prompt_for_user_token method.
That caused a traceback:
File "add-track.py", line 8
export SPOTIPY_CLIENT_ID='4f...6'
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
I noticed that Text Wrangler does not recognize 'export' as a special word. And I searched docs.python.org for 'export' and came up with nothing helpful. What is export? How am I using it incorrectly?
I next tried passing the client_id, client_secret, and redirect_uri as arguments in the util.prompt_for_user_token method like so:
util.prompt_for_user_token(username,scope,client_id='4f...6',client_secret='xxx...123',redirect_uri='https://play.spotify.com/collection/songs')
When I tried that, this is what happens in terminal:
User authentication requires interaction with your
web browser. Once you enter your credentials and
give authorization, you will be redirected to
a url. Paste that url you were directed to to
complete the authorization.
Opening https://accounts.spotify.com/authorize?scope=user-library-modify&redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fplay.spotify.com%2Fcollection%2Fsongs&response_type=code&client_id=4f...6 in your browser
Enter the URL you were redirected to:
I entered https://play.spotify.com/collection/songs and then got this traceback:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "add-track.py", line 21, in <module>
token = util.prompt_for_user_token(username, scope, client_id='4f...6', client_secret='xxx...123', redirect_uri='https://play.spotify.com/collection/songs')
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/spotipy/util.py", line 86, in prompt_for_user_token
token_info = sp_oauth.get_access_token(code)
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/spotipy/oauth2.py", line 210, in get_access_token
raise SpotifyOauthError(response.reason)
spotipy.oauth2.SpotifyOauthError: Bad Request
It seems like I am missing something, perhaps another part of Spotipy needs to be imported, or some other python module. It seems I am missing the piece that sets client credentials. How do I do that? I am fairly new at this (if that wasn't obvious). Please help.
UPDATE: I changed redirect_uri to localhost:8888/callback. That causes a Firefox tab to open with an error -- "unable to connect to server." (Since I do not have a server running. I thought about installing node.js as in the Spotify Web API tutorial, but I have not yet). The python script then asks me to copy and paste the URL I was redirected to. Even though FF could not open a page, I got this to work by copying the entire URL including the "code=BG..." that follows localhost:8888/callback? I am not sure this is an ideal setup, but at least it works.
Does it matter if I set up node.js or not?
