Spotify Auth Snippet

spotty.py

import requests
import base64


# STEP 1: Get authorization token
SPOTIFY_AUTH_URL = 'https://accounts.spotify.com/api/token'
SPOTIFY_CLIENT_ID = 'your_client_id'
SPOTIFY_CLIENT_SECRET = 'your_client_secret'

client_string = f"{SPOTIFY_CLIENT_ID}:{SPOTIFY_CLIENT_SECRET}"
credentials = base64.b64encode(client_string.encode('ascii'))


def get_spotify_access_tokens():
    headers = {'Authorization': ("Basic %s" % credentials.decode('ascii'))}
    grant = {'grant_type': 'client_credentials'}

    try:
        response = requests.post(SPOTIFY_AUTH_URL, data=grant, headers=headers)
    except:
        # Some error with *your* request, not Spotify
        current_app.logger.error("Spotify client failed.")
        raise
    else:
        results = response.json()
        return results
    

# STEP 2: Use access token to make requests to the API
def spotify_search(query, category):
    """
    Search spotify
    The API requires that a query and its type be sent. For example:
    >>> 'q=queen&type=artist'
    
    :params query: A query string which includes q and type
    :params category: String containing the search type such as artist or track
    """
    search_url = 'https://api.spotify.com/v1'
    results = get_spotify_access_tokens()
    headers = {'Authorization': f"Bearer {results['access_token']}"}
    
    url_query = f"{search_url}/search?q={query}type={category}"
    response = requests.get(url_query, headers=headers)
    
    return response

# This could be stored in a session since its encrypted
spotify_token_data = {
    'access_token': 'lllll',
    'expiry': datetime.datetime.now() - old_expiry
}

if spotify_token_data.get('expiry') < 60:
    # make new auth request and get fresh token.
else:
    # continue with the search query