Spotipy: Authorisation with Heroku

[issyrichards]

Hi there,

I have built an app locally using spotipy (thanks for your awesome code!) and I'm trying to push it online with Heroku. I use the util.prompt_for_user_token() function to authorise the user_playlist_create function. Since the util function requires a command line raw input I can't understand how it will work when I push it online - can you a suggest a way that I can by pass this problem?

Many thanks!

Issy

[arska]

I had the same problem in https://github.com/arska/srf2spotify#usage:

1. run locally once to do the authentication
2. copy the contents of .cache-spotifyusername into a config variable and a local .env file for testing, e.g. SPOTIPY_CACHE='{"access_token": ...}'
3. create a small launch script that does:

!/bin/sh

echo $SPOTIPY_CACHE > .cache-spotifyusername
python yourapp.py

[stephanebruckert]

Follow this example to use spotipy in an API https://github.com/plamere/spotipy/blob/master/examples/app.py