Spotify-Data-Collector

API to pull a user's Spotify information (recent songs played, playlists, etc) and save that information to a data store for reporting. This is an extremely slow work in progress, as it is a side project taken on by a dad who doesn't have much free-time to write code. Feel free to notify me of any issues you see with the service and I am open to any and all suggestions on what can be improved.

If you see something missing from the API, there's a good chance I haven't thought of it or haven't gotten around to working on it.

To run application:

• You'll need to first create a developer account with Spotify and register your application. Start here to do that: https://developer.spotify.com/

• Once you have registered your account and app, you'll need to add a .env file to your local repo and store the following variables:

  • CLIENT_ID
  • CLIENT_SECRET
  • REDIRECT_URI
  • These values are referenced in code and can be found in the Spotify Developer console entry you created for your application.

• To register your Spotify account with the API, hit the /login route. You'll only need to hit this once to register your account with the API.

• Routes that begin with /Spotify are spotify data routes, and do not require authentication. Use these routes to search for artists, albums, songs, etc.

• Routes that begin with /user are user specific routes, and require authentication.

  • currently the only user route is /user/recenttracks/{trackCount}, which will return a list of songs played by the authenticated user based on the track count value (can't be greater than 50, defaults to 10).

This API heavily utilizes JohnnyCrazy's SPotifyAPI-Net library (https://github.com/JohnnyCrazy/SpotifyAPI-NET).