Spotipy - a Python client for The Spotify API

Description

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

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

Dependencies

• Requests - spotipy requires the requests package to be installed

Limitations

This version of the library does not support user authentication

Quick Start

To get started:

• Install spotipy

• Create a Spotify object

  sp = spotipy.Spotify()

Call methods:

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

A full set of examples can be found in the Spotipy examples directory

Supported Methods

• track - gets info for a single track
• tracks - gets info for multiple tracks
• album - gets info for a single album
• albums - gets info for a set of albums
• artist - gets info for an artist
• artists - gets info for a set of artists
• user - gets profile info for a user
• search - searches for artists, albums or tracks

Refer to the Spotify API documentation for details on the methods and parameters.

Methods that take item IDs (such as the track, album and artist methods) accept URN, URL or simple ID types. The following 3 ids are all acceptable IDs:

    - http://open.spotify.com/track/3HfB5hBU0dmBt8T0iCmH42
    - spotify:track:3HfB5hBU0dmBt8T0iCmH42
    - 3HfB5hBU0dmBt8T0iCmH42

Reporting Issues

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

Version

• 1.0 - 04/05/2014 - Initial release