CONTRIBUTING.md

Contributing

If you would like to contribute to spotipy follow these steps:

Export the needed environment variables

export SPOTIPY_CLIENT_ID=client_id_here
export SPOTIPY_CLIENT_SECRET=client_secret_here
export SPOTIPY_CLIENT_USERNAME=client_username_here # This is actually an id not spotify display name
export SPOTIPY_REDIRECT_URI=http://localhost:8080 # Make url is set in app you created to get your ID and SECRET

Create virtual environment, install dependencies, run tests:

$ virtualenv --python=python3.7 env
(env) $ pip install --user -e .
(env) $ python -m unittest discover -v tests

Lint

To automatically fix the code style:

pip install autopep8
autopep8 --in-place --aggressive --recursive .

To verify the code style:

pip install flake8
flake8 .

Changelog

Don't forget to add a short description of your change in the CHANGELOG