Automate playlist creation

[9scorp4]

Hello,

I am developing a script to sort my music collection into playlists sorted by genre. I created my app in the TIDAL dashboard and built the following code (in Python):

from dotenv import load_dotenv
import os
import base64
from requests import post
import json
import tidalapi
from datetime import datetime

load_dotenv()

client_id = os.getenv("CLIENT_ID")
client_secret = os.getenv("CLIENT_SECRET")

# Create token
def get_token():
    auth_string = client_id + ":" + client_secret
    auth_bytes = auth_string.encode("utf-8")
    auth_base64 = str(base64.b64encode(auth_bytes), "utf-8")

    url = "https://auth.tidal.com/v1/oauth2/token"
    headers = {
        "Authorization": "Basic " + auth_base64
    }
    data = {"grant_type": "client_credentials"}
    result = post(url, headers=headers, data=data)
    json_result = json.loads(result.content)
    token = json_result["access_token"]
    return token

def get_auth_header(token):
    return {"Authorization": "Bearer " + token}

token = get_token()

# Create a session with access token
session = tidalapi.Session()
session.token = token

# Desires genres
desired_genre = ["House", "Techno", "Reggaeton", "Bachata", "Hip-Hop", "Rock", "Pop"]

# Get the current date
current_date = datetime.now().strftime("%Y-%m-%d")

# Get tracks with each genre and add tracks
for genre in desired_genre:
    playlist_name = f"{genre} {current_date}"
    playlist_id = session.user.create_playlist(playlist_name)

    # Get tracks with the specified genre
    tracks = session.get_genre_tracks(genre)
    
    # Add tracks to playlists
    for track in tracks:
        session.add_track_to_playlist(track.id, playlist_id)

    print(f"Playlist '{playlist_name}' created successfully")

However, when running the code I get the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "c:\Users\****\Documents\DJ\Automated playlists\main.py", line 48, in <module>
    playlist_id = session.user.create_playlist(playlist_name)
                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'create_playlist'

Could someone please give me an insight into what's missing in my code? I tried looking at the TIDAL API Reference, but there's no command for creating a playlist. Does that mean that tidalapi doesn't have a function to create playlists?

Thank you!

[stefanmoro]

Hey @9scorp4, and welcome to the forum.

The tidalapi python package represents an unauthorized usage of TIDALs API, and is not supported by TIDAL. Please see #7 (and this comment in particular) for further information.