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A Spotify App that contains working examples of the use of Spotify Apps API

Spotify Apps API Tutorial

This is a Spotify App that shows useful code snippets that can help you build Spotify Apps. It uses the most recent version of the Spotify Apps API.

Installation

1. Sign up for a developer account on Spotify by logging in and agreeing to the terms of use.
2. Create the Spotify folder if it doesn't exist already: ~/Spotify (Mac OS X and Linux) or My Documents\Spotify (Windows).
3. Open the Spotify folder.
4. Run git clone git://github.com/spotify/apps-tutorial.git api-tutorial.
5. Download the latest version of Spotify.
6. Open Spotify and type "spotify:app:api-tutorial" in the search bar (restart Spotify completely in case it doesn't find the App at first).

Topics covered

Getting started

• Creating your manifest file
• Handling arguments, creating pages and navigational tabs
• Dragging and dropping content into an app

UI

• Show "Share" popup

Playing music

• Play a single track
• Play a list of tracks
• Get the currently playing track
• Create a play/pause button with an HTML element
• Skip to the next or previous track

Searching

• Get metadata from an artist, album, track, or playlist
• Returning metadata with a given search query

Interacting with user data

• Get a user's top tracks
• Star and unstar a track

Facebook

• Authenticate a user with Facebook

More information

• API Reference
• Integration Guidelines
• Spotify-tagged questions on StackOverflow
• @SpotifyPlatform on Twitter

Your feedback is welcome! Feel free to create issues and send pull requests.