Add Proxy Support to Bypass Regional Restrictions on Spotify

[git-GeekNerd]

Requested Feature

Hi! I’d like to suggest adding an option to use proxy servers within SpotDL.

Problem

I am located in a country that faces regional restrictions on Spotify, and because of this, I receive the following error when trying to access Spotify:

HTTP Status: 403, Code: -1
Spotify is unavailable in this country, reason: None

To bypass this restriction, I have to use a proxy server. However, SpotDL currently doesn't offer an option to set up a proxy, making it impossible to use the app from countries like mine.

Possible Implementation

• Add flags/arguments for setting up proxy details (e.g., --proxy )
• Support HTTP/SOCKS proxies
• Allow the configuration of proxies through environment variables (e.g., SPOTDL_PROXY) This would help users like me who rely on proxy servers to access Spotify in restricted countries.

[kingofnull]

Just set proxy before running spotDL , only http proxy is supported.

Windows:

set http_proxy=http://127.0.0.1:8000
spotDL https://open.spotify.com/playlist/20qc2TEShaQKMutv8qb1gf

Linux :

export https_proxy=http://127.0.0.1:8000
spotDL https://open.spotify.com/playlist/20qc2TEShaQKMutv8qb1gf

Linux single line :

https_proxy=http://127.0.0.1:8000 spotDL https://open.spotify.com/playlist/20qc2TEShaQKMutv8qb1gf

[xnetcat]

Like @kingofnull said use env variables for proxy.

https://requests.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user/advanced/#proxies

Better proxy support maybe in the future