Installation

Being a modern Python framework, Spotipy2 requires an up-to-date version of Python to be installed in your system. We recommend using the latest versions of both Python 3 and pip.

Install Spotipy2

The easiest way to install the latest stable version of Spotipy2 is via pip

pip install spotipy2

If you want to enable caching:

pip install spotipy2[cache]

If you want the last development build:

pip install git+https://github.com/CyanBook/spotipy2

Verifying

To be sure that Spotipy2 has been correctly downloaded and installed, try to open a Python shell and import it.

>>> import spotipy2
>>> spotipy2.__version__
'x.y.z'

Virtual environments

A very good practice is to use a virtual environment.

A virtual environment is a tool that helps to keep dependencies required by different projects separate by creating isolated Python virtual environments for them.

You may have to install the venv package before been able to create a virtual environment, depending on your system. For example, Ubuntu requires python3-venv to be installed.

Create and activate one

$ python3 -m venv .env
$ source .env/bin/activate
(.env) $ python -c "import sys; print(sys.executable)" # Check if it's working
.../.env/bin/python