Use a Music API

Inspiration

Always knew about its existence but procrastinated until now for MLH's Local Hack Day.

What it does

It helps view the name of all albums that exist on Spotify for a specific artist (Birdy)

How we built it

Went through the documentation and tested it out.

Challenges we ran into

• Did not know where to register for the secret keys
• The code in the documentation does not mention adding the secret key to the code, so figured that out. Later on, after reading the documentation again (this time properly), saw that I was supposed to set the secret keys in the command line. [This is actually better as it minimizes the risk of sharing secret keys and facing issues with the API later].

Accomplishments that we're proud of

I am glad that I was able to overcome the procrastination to get started with this awesome API!

What we learned

• A new API - spotipy
• Environment Variables

What's next for Use a Music API

• Exploring this API more and see what can be built out of it.

Built With

• python
• spotify