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

spotify_token.php

    //based on https://gist.github.com/ahallora/4aac6d048742d5de0e65
    
    $client_id = 'your client id';
    $client_secret = 'your client secret';
    $ch = curl_init();
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://accounts.spotify.com/api/token');
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
    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;

Just stumbled upon this gem. Cheers mate 😄 👍

I am happy to help