What I want to accomplish:
Display all my Spotify playlist on my website and let my visitors play the songs.
From what I've understood, I need to use the Spotify Web API to accomplish that, so I registered an app and received a Client Id and a Client Secret.
All the examples I've seen on https://developer.spotify.com/web-api/code-examples/ are pretty advanced for a newbie like myself and they all seem to require stuff like node.js or Composer etc. which I can't install since I'm on a shared hosting service.
What's the easiest way to show my playlists on my website?
Thanks!
Ensure all your playlists are publicly available (users other than you can't read your private playlists) and call the following endpoint — everything you need to know is documented:
https://developer.spotify.com/web-api/get-list-users-playlists/
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I was trying to build a web app that uses spotify api to get the song/artist name by a track id(spotify), my intention was so everyone could use the web app, not only spotify users.
But I guess it's not possible to use the API without logging in the user ?
Can somebody confirm or maybe point me to a solution ?
According to the documentation you can register your application and use your secret to retrieve any non user-specific information.
See this page.
I am asking this here because Soundcloud does not have support. I going to build a website that people can purchase audio files from using Soundcloud to download the files (and stream before buy). I want to be able to access the download file link in the Soundcloud API without the download link being enabled and showing on the Soundcloud UI. I can't seem to find this info in the Soundcloud API docs. I am going to have a Paypal redirect after the payment to the download link. I know this is a weird way of doing this but I have certain criteria I have to meet. I would host the audio files on my server but they are huge. Anyone have experience with this or can help?
im not sure its possible to do what you want. (very easily at least)
there would be no way for the purchaser to access the 'download' track on soundcloud directly unless downloads are specifically enabled for that track.
really the only way to not host the files and still be able to provide the download would be to use the api to download or proxy the track from soundcloud to your server, using your credentials (because you always have access to your own tracks, download or stream). mind you this would use 2x the bandwidth usage (the server getting the track from soundcloud, and the client downloading the track), and storage space would only be impacked on a temporary bases. but. this is a pretty hacky way and not really a good/proper solution.
you can:
-compress/re-encode the audio as to not use as much disk space
-pay for more storage space at your web host, its usually pretty cheap thse days.
So you want to charge on something free? Well, I think all the downloader out there are middleware where they stream the track from soundcloud and response to client as attachment upon request, one of many examples is http://wittysound.com. Cheapest way to get thing done is providing direct link to soundcloud server like what http://soundflush.com does
We are looking to develop a web application which would allow users to play songs via Spotify API by tweeting in their song choices.
Since the internet connection can not be relied upon, in order to do this, we are hoping to cache ALL the track information locally and only connecting when songs need playing.
Now, how feasible would this be if we were to do this via the API or can we somehow have a single data dump?
we are hoping to cache ALL the track information locally
This isn't really possible, since 1) there's no API to get everything in the Spotify catalogue, 2) that is a LOT of metadata - it'd be impractical to download and store it all locally, and 3) doing so would be against the Spotify API ToS anyway.
and only connecting when songs need playing
If you need to connect to the internet to play anyway, performing the API call to get track metadata shouldn't pose a problem.
(I am reposting this question here because I tried on the google news group and got no responses.)
I need to build a shop for my client, and the client already has a domain and a web site. I need to integrate e-commerce functionality in to the site. This is going to be done by sending AJAX requests to the API.
my question is whether I need to get a partner account for this? I am not yet going to write an app that people would install, I am just building a store for my client. how is it done?
You do not need a Shopify Partner account for this. You can instead create a "Private application" within the normal shopify admin, which will give you the api credentials you need to make stuff happen.
This article on the shopify wiki gives a good overview of the process for getting started (the first sections are most relevant in your case):
http://wiki.shopify.com/Using_the_shopify_api_gem_with_the_credentials_of_a_private_app
I have a Youtube video set to private so nobody can watch it via Youtube or the embedded player. However I do want people be to be able to watch it on my website. The goal is to make the video available exclusively on my website for a while before I open it to the world. I was thinking to login to my Youtube account seemlessly using Youtube's API and log out after the video's finished but that doesn't make security sense. What's your take on that?
I agree with your intuition. Making the private sharing secure seems tricky at best. Although the Data API has procedural authentication options, I don't think Player API has that facility. Furthermore even if it did, it's hard to see how it might work without exposing your password.
Your best bet is probably to directly host the video on your website. You would use your website's authentication for restricting access limited release video. Then when your ready for the public release you can either switch to YouTube hosting or relax the authentication of your self hosting. The Video for Everybody site has examples of several options for self hosting of videos.