Spotify Apps API Tutorial

This is a Spotify App that explains how to make a Spotify App. All examples use the latest version of jQuery.

For API Guidelines, click here.

Topics covered

Getting started

• Creating your manifest file
• Handling arguments and creating navigational tabs
• Using the pager element (coming soon)
• Dragging and dropping content into an app (coming soon)
• Show "Share" popup

Playing music

• Play a single song
• Play a list of songs
• Get the currently-playing track
• Create a play/pause button with an HTML element
• Skip to the next or previous track
• Get a user's top tracks

Searching

• Returning all tracks with a certain search query (coming soon)
• Get the top 5 most popular tracks from 5 artists

Playlists

• Get songs from a playlist URL
• Subscribe to a playlist (coming soon)
• Showing a playlist mosiac image

Interacting with Facebook

• Authenticate a user with Facebook
• Get a user's listening history from Facebook

Experimental

• Talking to Twitter
• Display a Polymaps object
• Use HTML5's local storage

Installation

1. Sign up for a developer account on Spotify. It takes about 24 hours to get access, so email mager@spotify.com with your Spotify username for rush access.
2. Open Terminal, mkdir ~/Spotify
3. cd ~/Spotify
4. git clone git@github.com:mager/spotify-apps-tutorial.git
5. Download the latest version of Spotify
6. Open Spotify and type "spotify:app:spotify-apps-tutorial" in the search bar

Your feedback is welcome! Please email mager@spotify.com.