June 17th 2014: Today Spotify released a new Web API. It is now easy to retrieve cover artwork, as all endpoints includes an array of images for every item. Search example: curl -X GET “https://api.spotify.com/v1/search?q=tania%20bowra&type=artist” { “artists” : { … “items” : [ { … “images” : [ { “height” : 640, “url” : “https://d3rt1990lpmkn.cloudfront.net/original/f2798ddab0c7b76dc2d270b65c4f67ddef7f6718”, … Read more
As others have said, it WAS possible to browse the source and view a sample “API” application, but neither of these are available anymore. For this reason, I have put together a kitchen sink application, which demonstrates how to perform much of the basic functionality. It may come in handy to anyone getting started: https://github.com/ptrwtts/kitchensink … Read more
Spotify has the following intent-actions: metadatachanged, playbackstatechanged, and queuechanged. queuechanged contains no extra data. playbackstatechanged has a boolean value for “playing”, and a value for playbackPosition. metadatachanged contains artist, album, track, length, and id values. You can get Artist, Track, and Album names when the track is changed (manually or automatically) by using com.spotify.mobile.android.metadatachanged If … Read more
You can find an example of using express to perform the authentication flow with Spotify on https://github.com/spotify/web-api-auth-examples (see the authorization_code approach). You can’t get an access token making a client-side request to /api/token. You need to make a request to /authorize, which will redirect to your redirect_uri, which itself will exchange a code with an … Read more
At the most basic level you can make code that works using the cpointer.i part of the SWIG library to allow a direct “pointer to pointer” object to be created in Java. For example given the header file: #include <stdlib.h> typedef struct sp_session sp_session; typedef struct {} sp_session_config; typedef int sp_error; inline sp_error sp_session_create(const sp_session_config … Read more
I believe the issue here is that you’re attempting to retrieve JSON data from the endpoint where you should direct your users. So instead of making a request to it, you should supply a button on your page that links to your https://accounts.spotify.com/authorize/{…} URL. The user will proceed to give your application the permissions you’ve … Read more
The request to https://accounts.spotify.com/api/token needs to be made server side and not as an AJAX request. This way your key, which contains the credentials for your application, won’t be exposed. Also, the Spotify server will be able to redirect the request to the redirect_uri together with the access token. An alternative is to use the … Read more