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Spotify API Setup
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const url = 'https://accounts.spotify.com/authorize'
function getAuthorizationCodeURL() {
const u = new URL(url)
u.searchParams.append('client_id', '')
u.searchParams.append('response_type', 'code')
u.searchParams.append('redirect_uri', 'http://127.0.0.1:8080/callback')
u.searchParams.append('scope', 'user-read-currently-playing')
u.searchParams.append('state', '')
u.searchParams.append('show_dialog', true)
return u.href
}
// the above url will redirect to https://localhost:8000/callback?code=bigassnumber
// const code = bigassnumber (manually)
/* this function will provide us refresh token which is valid indefinitely
save that refresh token in a environment variable and use it to fetch fresh token
in the function below this one
*/
async function getSpotifyAuthToken() {
const authTokenBasePath = 'https://accounts.spotify.com/api/token'
const authTokenURL = new URL(authTokenBasePath)
authTokenURL.searchParams.append('grant_type', 'authorization_code')
authTokenURL.searchParams.append('code', code)
authTokenURL.searchParams.append('redirect_uri', 'http://127.0.0.1:8080/callback')
const authorizationHeader =
'Basic ' + new Buffer(clientId + ':' + clientSecret).toString('base64')
return fetch(authTokenURL.href, {
method: 'POST',
headers: {
'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded',
Authorization: authorizationHeader,
},
}).then((response) => response.json())
}
/* fetch fresh token */
const client_id = process.env.clientId
const client_secret = process.env.clientSecret
const refresh_token = process.env.refreshToken
const basic = Buffer.from(`${client_id}:${client_secret}`).toString('base64')
const TOKEN_ENDPOINT = `https://accounts.spotify.com/api/token`
module.exports = async function getAccessToken() {
const response = await fetch(TOKEN_ENDPOINT, {
method: 'POST',
headers: {
Authorization: `Basic ${basic}`,
'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded',
},
body: querystring.stringify({
grant_type: 'refresh_token',
refresh_token,
}),
})
return response.json()
}