/Spotify-Auth-Heroku

Simple Deploy to Heroku Spotify Authentication

Primary LanguagePython

Spotify Auth Heroku

MIT Licence

About

Quick and easy deployment to Heroku to enable access to Spotify's WEB API through user authentication:

Deploy

Your application must follow the Spotify authentication process:

  • Your web application must perform a GET request to Spotify's Authorize endpoint. e.g. 
    app.get('/login', function(req, res) {
var scopes = 'user-read-private user-read-email';
res.redirect('https://accounts.spotify.com/authorize' +
'?response_type=code' +
'&client_id=' + my_client_id +
(scopes ? '&scope=' + encodeURIComponent(scopes) : '') +
'&redirect_uri=' + encodeURIComponent(redirect_uri));
});
    The redirect_uri is the Heroku application url.
  • The Heroku application will take the access token granted by the user and exchange it for a session token which is used for requests.
  • This application will handle the callback and token exchange then return to a redirect to a new webpage with the new token for use.

Environmental Variables

Clicking the "deploy to heroku" button will prompt you for these variables:

  • CLIENT_ID - Spotify Application Client ID Required
  • CLIENT_SECRET - Spotify Application Client Secret Required
  • CALLBACK_URL - The application Spotify returns authentication back to. This is the Heroku application URL. Required
  • REDIRECT_URL - After exchanging the access token for a session token, redirect to this url to <URL>/<session_token>.

License

Spotify-Auth-Heroku is released under an MIT License.

Copyright © 2019-present Kevin J Nguyen.

Please provide attribution, it is greatly appreciated.