Getting Started with Spotify Web API

Introduction

You can use Spotify's Web API to discover music and podcasts, manage your Spotify library, control audio playback, and much more. Browse our available Web API endpoints using the sidebar at left, or via the navigation bar on top of this page on smaller screens.

In order to make successful Web API requests your app will need a valid access token. One can be obtained through OAuth 2.0.

The base URI for all Web API requests is https://api.spotify.com/v1.

Need help? See our Web API guides for more information, or visit the Spotify for Developers community forum to ask questions and connect with other developers.

Install the Package

Run the following command from your project directory to install the package from npm:

npm install spotify-api-sdk@1.0.0

For additional package details, see the Npm page for the spotify-api-sdk@1.0.0 npm.

Initialize the API Client

Note: Documentation for the client can be found here.

The following parameters are configurable for the API Client:

Parameter	Type	Description
environment	Environment	The API environment. Default: Environment.Production
timeout	number	Timeout for API calls. Default: 0
httpClientOptions	Partial<HttpClientOptions>	Stable configurable http client options.
unstableHttpClientOptions	any	Unstable configurable http client options.
authorizationCodeAuthCredentials	AuthorizationCodeAuthCredentials	The credential object for authorizationCodeAuth

HttpClientOptions

Parameter	Type	Description
timeout	number	Timeout in milliseconds.
httpAgent	any	Custom http agent to be used when performing http requests.
httpsAgent	any	Custom https agent to be used when performing http requests.
retryConfig	Partial<RetryConfiguration>	Configurations to retry requests.

RetryConfiguration

Parameter	Type	Description
maxNumberOfRetries	number	Maximum number of retries. Default: 0
retryOnTimeout	boolean	Whether to retry on request timeout. Default: true
retryInterval	number	Interval before next retry. Used in calculation of wait time for next request in case of failure. Default: 1
maximumRetryWaitTime	number	Overall wait time for the requests getting retried. Default: 0
backoffFactor	number	Used in calculation of wait time for next request in case of failure. Default: 2
httpStatusCodesToRetry	number[]	Http status codes to retry against. Default: [408, 413, 429, 500, 502, 503, 504, 521, 522, 524]
httpMethodsToRetry	HttpMethod[]	Http methods to retry against. Default: ['GET', 'PUT']

The API client can be initialized as follows:

const client = new Client({
  authorizationCodeAuthCredentials: {
    oAuthClientId: 'OAuthClientId',
    oAuthClientSecret: 'OAuthClientSecret',
    oAuthRedirectUri: 'OAuthRedirectUri',
    oAuthScopes: [
      OAuthScopeEnum.AppRemoteControl,
      OAuthScopeEnum.PlaylistReadPrivate
    ]
  },
  timeout: 0,
  environment: Environment.Production,
});

Authorization

This API uses the following authentication schemes.

• oauth_2_0 (OAuth 2 Authorization Code Grant)

List of APIs

• Albums
• Artists
• Audiobooks
• Categories
• Chapters
• Episodes
• Genres
• Markets
• Player
• Playlists
• Search
• Shows
• Tracks
• Users

Classes Documentation

• ApiResponse
• ApiError