Spotify Apps API: any more documentation?

mbuchetics picture mbuchetics · Dec 2, 2011 · Viewed 8.4k times · Source

I've been playing around with the new Spotify Apps API since yesterday but even though the documentation they have online is pretty good, I can't find anything on to use the API object you receive after calling getSpotifyApi(1). They have some sort of API reference online but no description of how to get these objects, how to access built-in resources such as graphics etc. All in all, I feel like I am missing something. I was able to play around with it by examining the API using the developer inspector and looking at some of the available apps. Is there any way to look at the Javascript code?

Answer

Peter Watts picture Peter Watts · Dec 30, 2011

As others have said, it WAS possible to browse the source and view a sample "API" application, but neither of these are available anymore. For this reason, I have put together a kitchen sink application, which demonstrates how to perform much of the basic functionality. It may come in handy to anyone getting started:

https://github.com/ptrwtts/kitchensink

In the README, there is also a list of helpful resources, but I shall copy some of them here for easy access:

Docs

Spotify Apps Docs: http://developer.spotify.com/en/spotify-apps-api/overview/

Building a Spotify App: http://musicmachinery.com/2011/12/02/building-a-spotify-app/

PasteBin Examples: http://pastebin.com/u/MrSiir

Apps

Tutorial: http://developer.spotify.com/download/spotify-apps-api/tutorial/

Mood Knobs: https://github.com/alexmic/mood-knobs

Spartify: https://github.com/blixt/spartify

SpotifyEchoNestPlaylistDemo: https://gist.github.com/1438262