Spotipy is a thin client library for the Spotify Web API .

If you already have Python on your system you can install the library simply by downloading the distribution, unpack it and install in the usual fashion:

python setup.py install

You can also install it using a popular package manager with

pip install SpotipyWebAPI

or

easy_install SpotipyWebAPI

• Requests - spotipy requires the requests package to be installed

To get started:

• Install spotipy

• Create a Spotify object

  sp = spotipy.Spotify()

Call methods:

tracks = sp.search(q='weezer', limit=20)
for i, t in enumerate(tracks['tracks']):
    print ' ', i, t['name']

A full set of examples can be found in the Spotipy examples directory

• album(self, album_id) - returns a single album given the album's ID, URN or URL
• album_tracks(self, album_id) - Get Spotify catalog information about an album’s tracks
• albums(self, albums) - returns a list of albums given the album IDs, URNs, or URLs
• artist(self, artist_id) - returns a single artist given the artist's ID, URN or URL
• artist_albums(self, artist_id, album_type=None, country=None, limit=20, offset=0) - Get Spotify catalog information about an artist’s albums
• artist_top_tracks(self, artist_id, country='US') - Get Spotify catalog information about an artist’s top 10 tracks by country.
• artists(self, artists) - returns a list of artists given the artist IDs, URNs, or URLs
• me(self) - returns info about me
• next(self, result) - returns the next result given a result
• previous(self, result) - returns the previous result given a result
• search(self, q, limit=10, offset=0, type='track') - searches for an item
• track(self, track_id) - returns a single track given the track's ID, URN or URL
• tracks(self, tracks) - returns a list of tracks given the track IDs, URNs, or URLs
• user(self, user_id) - Gets basic profile information about a Spotify User
• user_playlist(self, user, playlist_id=None, fields=None) - Gets playlist of a user
• user_playlist_add_tracks(self, user, playlist_id, tracks, position=None) - Adds tracks to a playlist
• user_playlist_create(self, user, name, public=True) - Creates a playlist for a user
• user_playlists(self, user) - Gets playlists of a user

Refer to the Spotify API documentation for details on the methods and parameters.

Methods that take item IDs (such as the track, album and artist methods) accept URN, URL or simple ID types. The following 3 ids are all acceptable IDs:

    - http://open.spotify.com/track/3HfB5hBU0dmBt8T0iCmH42
    - spotify:track:3HfB5hBU0dmBt8T0iCmH42
    - 3HfB5hBU0dmBt8T0iCmH42

If you have suggestions, bugs or other issues specific to this library, file them here or contact me at [email protected]. Or just send me a pull request.

• 1.0 - 04/05/2014 - Initial release
• 1.1 - 05/18/2014 - Repackaged for saner imports
• 1.4.1 - 06/17/2014 - Updates to match released API
• 1.4.2 - 06/21/2014 - Added support for retrieving starred playlists