spotify_scraper.R

library(httr) # for sending requests

# Get the Spotify token header for API calls
# Returns:
#   Header for GET requests
get_token_header = function(){
  clientID = 'your client id here'
  secret = 'your secret id here'
  
  response = POST(
    'https://accounts.spotify.com/api/token',
    accept_json(),
    authenticate(clientID, secret),
    body = list(grant_type = 'client_credentials'),
    encode = 'form',
    verbose()
  )
  mytoken = content(response)$access_token
  HeaderValue = paste0('Bearer ', mytoken)
  return(HeaderValue)
}