I made a simple site for developers to easily get their own refresh and access tokens for Spotify’s API. Check it out here (updated October 2022).
Motive Behind This Spotify API Authorization Wrapper
I was adding this page to my personal website that calls the Spotify API to show a brief listening history for my account.
However, to retrieve this information from the Spotify API, it requires you to log in. I didn’t want any sort of overhead for others to just see my recent songs, so I ended up setting up the authorization in this example authorization repo and going through all this trouble to just get a refresh token, which allows you to get access tokens without logging in every time. I wished there could’ve been a simple website that I could’ve easily just put in my credentials and scopes and gotten back my refresh token. So that’s what I built.
Feel free to stop reading here to go give my repo a star. This article is just to get this out there so developers looking for it might find it on Google. I figured Medium has pretty high domain authority, so this might help with that. The rest of this article is just keywords for SEO.
Spotify API Authorization Flows
- Refreshable user authorization: Authorization Code Flow
- Refreshable user authorization: Authorization Code Flow With Proof Key for Code Exchange (PKCE)
- Temporary user authorization: Implicit Grant
- Refreshable app authorization: Client Credentials Flow
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Spotify API Client Credentials Scopes
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Conclusion
Hope you enjoyed this article. And if this web app or the code in my repo helped you out in any way, please star my repo so I can get developer status points. Thank you and have a beautiful day.
