Get Spotify Access Token (client credentials) with PHP and cURL

getSpotifyAccessToken

<?php

$client_id = '<insert your spotify app client id>'; 
$client_secret = '<insert your spotify app client secret>'; 

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,            'https://accounts.spotify.com/api/token' );
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1 );
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST,           1 );
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,     'grant_type=client_credentials' ); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER,     array('Authorization: Basic '.base64_encode($client_id.':'.$client_secret))); 

$result=curl_exec($ch);
echo $result;

?>

How do I add the scope?

$scopes = array( 'user-read-playback-state', 'user-read-playback-position' );

Hi @ahallora your gist helped me a lot, thank you very much!

But I spent some time to translate it into nodejs, I made a gist like you: https://gist.github.com/owalid/cf7a2425d9733b6aee80832f6fbc660c

Do not hesitate to look at
Hoping that this will help
Peace ;)

Thank you brother

You sir are so kind to share this knowledge, I was having trouble with this, i was passing to CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS an array but I didnt realized it required a string... thank you again sir.

Still working nicely in 2021 - One minor recommendation, add 'curl_close($ch);' before the final echo for best practices.

Superb, this helped me with another API service too. Thanks so much!

Thanks a lot!

How do I add the scope?

$scopes = array( 'user-read-playback-state', 'user-read-playback-position' );

where to add

hi! This has worked for me several years, but now it suddenly gives the following error: Error: Forbidden
Your client does not have permission to get URL /api/token from this server. Anyone else facing the same issue? Any ideas what has been changed and how to fix this?

Thanks!

Still worked for me!