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Integrate the Spotify API in JavaScript

Gain insights into the Spotify API and OAuth 2.0, and learn to retrieve access tokens, manage data, and integrate Spotify in a React app with hands-on experience.

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Spotify is a popular music streaming platform that provides access to millions of songs, podcasts, and videos along with information like the details of artists, tracks, and shows. In this course, you'll first get an introduction to the Spotify API and its different endpoints. Spotify uses the OAuth 2.0 framework, and you'll learn about the different authorization methods you can use for the Spotify API. You'll then be provided with a step-by-step guide on how to sign up for an account and retrieve the access token. Next, you'll learn how to accomplish various tasks using the API. These include getting information about an artist, their albums and top tracks, creating a playlist and adding items to it, getting information about featured playlists, getting audio features and analysis of a track, and more. By the end of the course, you’ll know how to access and manage data using Spotify API. You’ll also have hands-on experience integrating Spotify API in a functioning React application.

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WHAT YOU'LL LEARN

Familiarity with the different authorization methods you can use with the Spotify API

The ability to get information about an artist, their albums, and top tracks

The ability to save or delete an album from a user profile using Spotify API

The ability to create a playlist and add items to it using a Spotify user account

An understanding of how to manage tracks in a user profile

Working knowledge of how to get audio features and analysis of a track

Hands-on experience integrating Spotify API in a functioning React application

Familiarity with the different authorization methods you can use with the Spotify API

Content

22 Lessons

Introduction

5 Lessons

Get familiar with Spotify API integration, authorization flows, and setting up your development environment.

Introduction to the Course

Authorization Methods

Get Started with Spotify API

Obtain the Client Credential Access Token

Obtain the Authorization Code Access Token

Search Spotify Resources and New Releases

2 Lessons

Get started with accessing Spotify's Search and New Releases endpoints efficiently.

Search Spotify Resources

New Releases

Artists

3 Lessons

Break apart retrieving artist information, albums, and top tracks using the Spotify API.

Albums

2 Lessons

Break down complex ideas on managing and retrieving user saved albums via Spotify API.

Playlists

3 Lessons

Solve problems in creating, retrieving, and managing Spotify playlists using JavaScript.

Tracks

3 Lessons

Follow the process of managing, retrieving, and analyzing tracks through Spotify’s API.

API Integration in React

1 Lessons

Practice using a React app to integrate Spotify API for playlists, albums, and searches.

Conclusion

1 Lessons

Get familiar with integrating the Spotify API in JavaScript and continue exploring.

Appendix

2 Lessons

Grasp the fundamentals of Spotify API requests and token refresh for seamless integration.

Certificate of Completion

Showcase your accomplishment by sharing your certificate of completion.

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