Spotify OAuth 2 Tutorial

Setup a new app in the Spotify Developer Console. When you have obtained a client_id, client_secret and registered a Redirect URI, then you can try out the command line interactive example below.

>>> # Credentials you get from registering a new application
>>> client_id = '<the id you get from spotify developer console>'
>>> client_secret = '<the secret you get from spotify developer console>'
>>> redirect_uri = 'https://your.registered/callback'

>>> # OAuth endpoints given in the Spotify API documentation
>>> # https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/general/guides/authorization/code-flow/
>>> authorization_base_url = "https://accounts.spotify.com/authorize"
>>> token_url = "https://accounts.spotify.com/api/token"
>>> # https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/general/guides/authorization/scopes/
>>> scope = [
...     "user-read-email",
...     "playlist-read-collaborative"
... ]

>>> from requests_oauthlib import OAuth2Session
>>> spotify = OAuth2Session(client_id, scope=scope, redirect_uri=redirect_uri)

>>> # Redirect user to Spotify for authorization
>>> authorization_url, state = spotify.authorization_url(authorization_base_url)
>>> print('Please go here and authorize: ', authorization_url)

>>> # Get the authorization verifier code from the callback url
>>> redirect_response = input('\n\nPaste the full redirect URL here: ')

>>> from requests.auth import HTTPBasicAuth

>>> auth = HTTPBasicAuth(client_id, client_secret)

>>> # Fetch the access token
>>> token = spotify.fetch_token(token_url, auth=auth,
...         authorization_response=redirect_response)

>>> print(token)

>>> # Fetch a protected resource, i.e. user profile
>>> r = spotify.get('https://api.spotify.com/v1/me')
>>> print(r.content)