spotipy-dev/spotipy

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5468 stars · 970 forks observed · 2026-08-28

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Spotipy is a lightweight Python client library for the Spotify Web API, providing access to all Spotify endpoints including music search, track/album/artist data, and user library management. It includes built-in OAuth2 authorization flows for both client-credentials and user-authenticated access.

Use cases

• search spotify tracks and artists from python
• get a user's saved spotify playlists and library
• build a music recommendation script using spotify data
• authenticate with spotify oauth in a python app
• fetch audio features and metadata for tracks
• automate playlist creation via the spotify api

When to choose

• you need Python access to the full Spotify Web API with minimal setup
• you want ready-made OAuth2 authorization flows for Spotify
• you need a well-documented, widely used Spotify client

When to avoid

• you need access to a music service other than Spotify
• you want a non-Python client or a lower-level raw HTTP wrapper
• you need features of Spotify's private or undocumented APIs

Facets

library · maturity active

http-client auth sdk apis audio developer-tools web-development python cross-platform spotify music-api oauth api-client rest-client

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