Write a program that retrieves a list of a user's playlists.

[wtanner]

Inputs

• (required) Spotify access token
• (required) spotify User ID

Outputs

• Spotify API response JSON data, unpacked, one playlist object per line

Design Guidelines

1. Use only the Python standard library
2. UI/UX for these programs is the shell (e.g. bash), so we will use commandline arguments and environment variables for all configuration, if possible.
3. Since it is a shell utility, we will use stdin and stdout for all IPC (inter-process communication)

Notes

• Getting an OAuth token is sort of annoying for the access required. For now, lets just get one from the developer portal and use it in an environment variable.
• Making http requests using the standard library: https://docs.python.org/3/howto/urllib2.html
• Building user interfaces using argparse: https://docs.python.org/3/library/argparse.html
• Spotify user playlists: https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/playlists/get-list-users-playlists/

[evanH13]

I have created a Client ID for this project in the Spotify for Developers console and I have the following:

• Client ID
• Client Secret
• Redirect URI for user authorization

[wtanner]

If you want to access user playlists, I believe you need to follow this authorization flow:

Authorization flow for user data

It is more challenging than the Client flow, because it involves user interaction.