What is Spotify-Api player?

• A Spotify-Api player is a music player that you can put in your github profile to make it appear 10 times better.

Demo :

Set Up Guide :

Fork the repo from my github click me

Spotify

• Create a Spotify Application
• Take note of:
  • Client ID
  • Client Secret
• Click on Edit Settings
• In Redirect URIs:
  • Add http://localhost/callback/

Refresh Token

• Navigate to the following URL:

https://accounts.spotify.com/authorize?client_id={SPOTIFY_CLIENT_ID}&response_type=code&scope=user-read-currently-playing,user-read-recently-played&redirect_uri=http://localhost/callback/

• After logging in, save the {CODE} portion of: http://localhost/callback/?code={CODE}

• Create a string combining {SPOTIFY_CLIENT_ID}:{SPOTIFY_CLIENT_SECRET} (e.g. 5n7o4v5a3t7o5r2e3m1:5a8n7d3r4e2w5n8o2v3a7c5) and encode into Base64.

• Then run a curl command in the form of:

curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded" -H "Authorization: Basic {BASE64}" -d "grant_type=authorization_code&redirect_uri=http://localhost/callback/&code={CODE}" https://accounts.spotify.com/api/token

• Save the Refresh token

Vercel

• Register on Vercel

• Fork this repo, then create a vercel project linked to it

• Add Environment Variables:

 https://vercel.com/<YourName>/<ProjectName>/settings/environment-variables/

- SPOTIFY_REFRESH_TOKEN
- SPOTIFY_CLIENT_ID
- SPOTIFY_SECRET_ID

• Deploy!

How You Will Use?

You can now use the following in your readme file:

[![Spotify](https://USER_NAME.vercel.app/api/spotify)](https://open.spotify.com/user/USER_NAME)