Spotipy - a Python client for The Spotify Web API

Description

Spotipy is a thin client library for the Spotify Web API.

Documentation

Spotipy's full documentation is online at Spotipy Documentation

Installation

If you already have Python on your system you can install the library simply by downloading the distribution, unpack it and install in the usual fashion:

python setup.py install

You can also install it using a popular package manager with

pip install spotipy

easy_install spotipy

Dependencies

Requests - spotipy requires the requests package to be installed

Quick Start

To get started, simply install spotipy, create a Spotify object and call methods:

import spotipy
sp = spotipy.Spotify()

results = sp.search(q='weezer', limit=20)
for i, t in enumerate(results['tracks']['items']):
    print ' ', i, t['name']

A full set of examples can be found in the online documentation and in the Spotipy examples directory.

Reporting Issues

If you have suggestions, bugs or other issues specific to this library, file them here. Or just send me a pull request.

Version

1.0 - 04/05/2014 - Initial release
1.1 - 05/18/2014 - Repackaged for saner imports
1.4.1 - 06/17/2014 - Updates to match released API
1.4.2 - 06/21/2014 - Added support for retrieving starred playlists
v1.40, June 12, 2014 -- Initial public release.
v1.42, June 19, 2014 -- Removed dependency on simplejson
v1.43, June 27, 2014 -- Fixed JSON handling issue
v1.44, July 3, 2014 -- Added show tracks.py example
v1.45, July 7, 2014 -- Support for related artists endpoint. Don't use cache auth codes when scope changes
v1.49, July 23, 2014 -- Support for "Your Music" tracks (add, delete, get), with examples
v1.50, August 14, 2014 -- Refactored util out of examples and into the main package
v1.301, August 19, 2014 -- Upgraded version number to take precedence over previously botched release (sigh)
v1.310, August 20, 2014 -- Added playlist replace and remove methods. Added auth tests. Improved API docs
v2.0 - August 22, 2014 -- Upgraded APIs and docs to make it be a real library
v2.0.2 - August 25, 2014 -- Moved to spotipy at pypi
v2.1.0 - October 25, 2014 -- Added support for new_releases and featured_playlists
v2.2.0 - November 15, 2014 -- Added support for user_playlist_tracks
v2.3.0 - January 5, 2015 -- Added session support added by akx.
v2.3.2 - March 31, 2015 -- Added auto retry logic
v2.3.3 - April 1, 2015 -- added client credential flow
v2.3.5 - April 28, 2015 -- Fixed bug in auto retry logic
v2.3.6 - June 3, 2015 -- Support for offset/limit with album_tracks API
v2.3.7 - August 10, 2015 -- Added current_user_followed_artists
v2.3.8 - March 30, 2016 -- Added recs, audio features, user top lists
v2.4.0 - December 31, 2016 -- Incorporated a number of PRs
v2.4.1 - January 2, 2017 -- Incorporated proxy support
v2.4.2 - January 2, 2017 -- support getting audio features for a single track
v2.4.3 - January 2, 2017 -- fixed proxy issue in standard auth flow
v2.4.4 - January 4, 2017 -- python 3 fix

jleeman/spotipy