Communicating with Spotify Outside of the Application

spotify / apps-tutorial

A Spotify App that contains working examples of the use of Spotify Apps API

https://developer.spotify.com/technologies/apps/

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Communicating with Spotify Outside of the Application #13

Closed netpoetica closed 10 years ago

netpoetica commented 11 years ago

Is there a .js file available that will allow a user to communicate via JavaScript with the Spotify API in a web browser instead of the Spotify app? I'm mind-boggled at the moment about having to use the in-app browser to build this. Also, I'm sure for the Spotify team this seems completely normal, but I did not see anything in the documentation that made me feel like the JavaScript API would be an in-app thing. Maybe I am missing something?

Thanks for your help/time

JMPerez commented 10 years ago

At the moment, the Spotify Apps run in the CEF browser included in the desktop client, and there is no way to run a Spotify App in a standalone web browser.

thelinmichael commented 10 years ago

Hey @netpoetica. It's a long time since you opened this issue, so apologies for letting you wait. Have a look at our Metadata API, it offers some functionality around searches and lookup. I also recommend having a look at our widgets. The desktop client is mentioned in a few places in the Developer Guidelines, but point taken.