spotify-webplayer-accesstoken

Utility script to get Spotify's web player access token which has more permissions than the normal one that can be obtained through the Spotify API.

This was inspired by kopiro's work on the same thing on Node (link).

Installing

pip install spotify_token

To obtain the cookies (valid for 1 year):

Open a new Incognito window in Chrome (or another browser) at https://accounts.spotify.com/en/login?continue=https:%2F%2Fopen.spotify.com%2F
Open Developer Tools in your browser (might require developer menu to be enabled in some browsers)
Login to Spotify.
Search/Filter for get_access_token in Developer tools under Network.
Under cookies for the request save the values for sp_dc and sp_key.
Close the window without logging out (Otherwise the cookies are made invalid).

An access token can be obtained by running the following:

import spotify_token as st

data = st.start_session("sp_dc","sp_key")
access_token = data[0]
expiration_date = data[1]

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details