Intent

The Intent of this project is to be able to download the images of your favorite spotify artists based on your listening history. The project will allow you to download all different images sizes of an artist with their respective directory/folder.

Set up

With virtual environment

Create a virtual environment

python -m venv venv

Then activate it

source venv/bin/activate

Get dependencies

Install all the required dependencies. Only required ones are requests, pydantic, and pydantic_settings

pip install -r requirements.txt

Spotify devloper api Keys

To be able to use spotify api, you must create a devloper account, which is free of charge. Navigate to spotify devloper. Once logged in and agree to terms and services, you must create an app. You can give it any name you want. However, make sure that your redirect url is the same as the one you intend to use.

Once that is done, navigate to the settings of your app and simply copy and paste the client_id and client_secret to your environemnt variable.

Environment variables.

CLIENT_ID=
CLIENT_SECRET=
REDIRECT_URI=

For the REDIRECT_URL, it is common practice to set it to

REDIRECT_URI=http://localhost:8888/callback

for development purposes.

Run the app

python main.py

You will be prompted to enter the code to grant access Simply navigate to the link & grab everything that is after code= and paste it into the running program. Once you hit enter, all the images of your favorite artists will be upload to your "uploads" directory.