Getting Started with Spotify Web API

Introduction

You can use Spotify's Web API to discover music and podcasts, manage your Spotify library, control audio playback, and much more. Browse our available Web API endpoints using the sidebar at left, or via the navigation bar on top of this page on smaller screens.

In order to make successful Web API requests your app will need a valid access token. One can be obtained through OAuth 2.0.

The base URI for all Web API requests is https://api.spotify.com/v1.

Need help? See our Web API guides for more information, or visit the Spotify for Developers community forum to ask questions and connect with other developers.

Install the Package

Run the following command from your project directory to install the package from npm:

npm install [email protected]

For additional package details, see the Npm page for the [email protected] npm.

Initialize the API Client

Note: Documentation for the client can be found here.

The following parameters are configurable for the API Client:

| Parameter | Type | Description | | --- | --- | --- | | environment | Environment | The API environment. Default: Environment.Production | | timeout | number | Timeout for API calls.Default: 0 | | httpClientOptions | Partial<HttpClientOptions> | Stable configurable http client options. | | unstableHttpClientOptions | any | Unstable configurable http client options. | | authorizationCodeAuthCredentials | AuthorizationCodeAuthCredentials | The credential object for authorizationCodeAuth |

The API client can be initialized as follows:

Code-Based Client Initialization

import { Client, Environment, OAuthScopeEnum } from 'spotify-apimatic-sdk';

const client = new Client({
  authorizationCodeAuthCredentials: {
    oAuthClientId: 'OAuthClientId',
    oAuthClientSecret: 'OAuthClientSecret',
    oAuthRedirectUri: 'OAuthRedirectUri',
    oAuthScopes: [
      OAuthScopeEnum.AppRemoteControl,
      OAuthScopeEnum.PlaylistReadPrivate
    ]
  },
  timeout: 0,
  environment: Environment.Production,
});

Configuration-Based Client Initialization

import * as path from 'path';
import * as fs from 'fs';
import { Client } from 'spotify-apimatic-sdk';

// Provide absolute path for the configuration file
const absolutePath = path.resolve('./config.json');

// Read the configuration file content
const fileContent = fs.readFileSync(absolutePath, 'utf-8');

// Initialize client from JSON configuration content
const client = Client.fromJsonConfig(fileContent);

See the Configuration-Based Client Initialization section for details.

Environment-Based Client Initialization

import * as dotenv from 'dotenv';
import * as path from 'path';
import * as fs from 'fs';
import { Client } from 'spotify-apimatic-sdk';

// Optional - Provide absolute path for the .env file
const absolutePath = path.resolve('./.env');

if (fs.existsSync(absolutePath)) {
  // Load environment variables from .env file
  dotenv.config({ path: absolutePath, override: true });
}

// Initialize client using environment variables
const client = Client.fromEnvironment(process.env);

See the Environment-Based Client Initialization section for details.

Environments

The SDK can be configured to use a different environment for making API calls. Available environments are:

Fields

| Name | Description | | --- | --- | | Production | Default |

Authorization

This API uses the following authentication schemes.

• oauth_2_0 (OAuth 2 Authorization Code Grant)

List of APIs

• Albums
• Artists
• Audiobooks
• Categories
• Chapters
• Episodes
• Genres
• Markets
• Player
• Playlists
• Search
• Shows
• Tracks
• Users

SDK Infrastructure

Configuration

• HttpClientOptions
• RetryConfiguration
• ProxySettings
• Configuration-Based Client Initialization
• Environment-Based Client Initialization

HTTP

• HttpRequest

Utilities

• ApiResponse
• ApiError