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How To Setup a Spotify API App in the Spotify Developer Portal

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16 Aug 2020CPOL4 min read 10.4K   3  
A beginner's step by step guide with screenshots to get a Spotify API App in the Spotify Developer portal and retrieve Client ID and Client Secret which are needed to access the Web API/Endpoints Spotify exposes to use in your code to consume the Spotify cloud services
Spotify has created endpoints that expose the ability to call these Web Service(s)/endpoint(s) to do things with Spotify. To begin using these Spotify Web Services/endpoints, you need to create a Spotify App in the Spotify Developer portal. In this article, I will give step by step instructions including screenshots for each step to achieve this result. In the end, you will also retrieve key pieces of data you need like the ClientID and ClientSecret which need to be supplied to use the Spotify Web Services/endpoints via calls to it from your script/code.

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