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Authenticate and get an oauth token for your Spotify app from the command line
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#!/bin/bash | |
# spotify_platform_oauth.sh | |
# | |
# A script to quickly and easily generate Spotify oauth tokens given a client | |
# id, secret, and scope. Will authenticate a user via the browser. | |
# The app must have "http://localhost:8082/' as a redirect_uri | |
# spotify_client_creds.json should contain a spotify client id and secret pair | |
# encoded as a json object with properties `id` and `secret` | |
# TODO grab client id and secret first from args, if not, then this file, if not, exit with an error | |
client_id=$(jq -r '.id' ~/.config/spotify_client_creds.json) | |
client_secret=$(jq -r '.secret' ~/.config/spotify_client_creds.json) | |
port=8082 | |
redirect_uri=http%3A%2F%2Flocalhost%3A$port%2F | |
auth_endpoint=https://accounts.spotify.com/authorize/?response_type=code\&client_id=$client_id\&redirect_uri=$redirect_uri | |
# TODO return cached access token if scopes match and it hasn't expired | |
# TODO get scopes from args | |
scopes="playlist-read-private" | |
if [[ ! -z $scopes ]] | |
then | |
encoded_scopes=$(echo $scopes| tr ' ' '%' | sed s/%/%20/g) | |
# If scopes exists, then append them to auth_endpoint | |
auth_endpoint=$auth_endpoint\&scope=$encoded_scopes | |
fi | |
# TODO if refresh_token exists and is valid for scopes, use refresh flow | |
open $auth_endpoint | |
# User is now authenticating on accounts.spotify.com... | |
# Now the user gets redirected to our endpoint | |
# Grab token and close browser window | |
response=$(echo "HTTP/1.1 200 OK\nAccess-Control-Allow-Origin:*\nContent-Length:65\n\n<html><script>open(location, '_self').close();</script></html>\n" | nc -l -c $port) | |
code=$(echo "$response" | grep GET | cut -d' ' -f 2 | cut -d'=' -f 2) | |
response=$(curl -s https://accounts.spotify.com/api/token \ | |
-H "Content-Type:application/x-www-form-urlencoded" \ | |
-H "Authorization: Basic $(echo -n $client_id:$client_secret | base64)" \ | |
-d "grant_type=authorization_code&code=$code&redirect_uri=http%3A%2F%2Flocalhost%3A$port%2F") | |
# Useful values are | |
# jq -r '.expires_in' | |
# may not exist | |
# jq -r '.scope' | |
# I'm not actually using this yet, best not store it | |
# echo $response | jq -r '.refresh_token' > /var/tmp/spotify_refresh_token | |
# TODO cache access token | |
echo $response | jq -r '.access_token' |
Thank you!
Thanks, very helpful! BTW, the reason for the base64 being different on line 41 is that the echo will append a newline to its output. If you change to echo -n, you won't need the sed.
Thanks @bmink - I figured that out a while ago but I forgot to update this. Will do so now :)
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Lifesaver, thanks!