Authorization

To have the end user approve your app for access to their Spotify data and features, or to have your app fetch data from Spotify, you need to authorize your application. This section provides all the info you need to authenticate your Spotify client.

Info

They all must be set as auth_flow parameter in the Spotify class, and they are all subclasses of BaseAuth

Authorization Flows

In the Spotify API, there are different ways to get authorized, called Authorization Flows.

Each flow has a different route to get to the end result, the access token, used to make authenticated requests. For example ClientCredentialsFlow only requires client_id and client_secret, while OauthFlow requires an explicit consent from the user involved.

Authenticated Requests

For authenticating, each request contains an access token, which is stored in the token attribute in the authentication flow class used. It's a Token object, which stores every info about the token obtained previously.

How to use it

First, import one of the authorization flows from spotipy2.auth, then set an initialized class of it as auth_flow parameter in the Spotify

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Select the authentication method you need from the list and start your journey!