today is thanksgiving technically !

im just glad to be on break tbh

where we left off was i was having trouble with the api so i was going to follow this youtube tutorial

https://youtu.be/2if5xSaZJlg?si=1fHDEzKAoeyHHdF9

let’s see how far along i get today

  • this will be a flask api + spotipy combo

  • 2 different ways of handling authentication (oauth flows) with spotipy api

    • authorization code
    • client credentials

  • client credentials seems somewhat limiting, so im going to go with authorization code

i did some research on what other spotify listening summarizing apps there already are

its listed in the central spotify project notion page

thats where i spent some of my time instead of following the tutorial

started coding

initial setup

  1. create new directory and main.py file

  2. creating a python3 virtual environment

python3 -m venv venv

^ same command ; used it for the sase discord bot project too

this creates a /venv directory

  1. create requirments.txt file
Flask==3.0.2
spotipy==2.23.0
  1. install dependencies

activate virtual environment

source venv/bin/activate

^ same command ; used it for the sase discord bot project too

now terminal looks like

(venv) ➜  spotify git:(main) ✗

venv is the name of the virtual environment you’re in right now

now pip install the dependencies within the virtual environment

pip install -r requirements.txt

actual logic

  1. flask app setup
import os

from flask import Flask

app = Flask(__name__)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    app.run(debug=True)

quick check with

python3 main.py

it’s running ! but theres nothing there yet

Flask app running

  1. set up flask session

but maybe next time, its time to sleep 😴