CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

Unreleased

Added

• Added support for audiobook endpoints: get_audiobook, get_audiobooks, and get_audiobook_chapters.
• Added integration tests for audiobook endpoints.
• Removed python 2.7 from GitHub Actions CI workflow. Python v2.7 reached end of life support and is no longer supported by Ubuntu 20.04.
• Removed python 3.6 from GitHub Actions CI workflow. Ubuntu 20.04 is not available in GitHub Actions for python 3.6.
• Added extra installation step to TUTORIAL.md for required installation packages.
• Added Troubleshooting Tips section to TUTORIAL.md to address common installation issues.
• Added link to Spotipy Tutorial for Beginners under Getting Started.

Changed

• Changes the YouTube video link for authentication tutorial (the old video was in low definition, the new one is in high definition)
• Updated links to Spotify in documentation
• Improve usability on README.md
• Fix user_playlists_contents example.
• Updated links to Spotify in documentation
• Fixed error obfuscation when Spotify class is being inherited and an error is raised in the Child's __init__
• Replaced artist_albums(album_type=...) with artist_albums(include_groups=...) due to an API change.
• Restructured the tutorial in index.rst to improve logical flow and made some minor edits.
• Updated _regex_spotify_url to ignore /intl-<countrycode> in Spotify links

Fixed

• Fixed unused description parameter in playlist creation example
• Readthedocs

Changed

• Drop support for EOL Python 3.7.

[2.23.0] - 2023-04-07

Added

• Added optional encoder_cls argument to CacheFileHandler, which overwrite default encoder for token before writing to disk
• Integration tests for searching multiple types in multiple markets (non-user endpoints)
• Publish to PyPI action

Fixed

• Fixed the regex for matching playlist URIs with the format spotify:user:USERNAME:playlist:PLAYLISTID.
• search_markets now factors the counts of all types in the total rather than just the first type (#534)

[2.22.1] - 2023-01-23

Added

• Add alternative module installation instruction to README
• Added Comment to README - Getting Started for user to add URI to app in Spotify Developer Dashboard.
• Added playlist_add_tracks.py to example folder

Changed

• Modified docstring for playlist_add_items() to accept "only URIs or URLs", with intended deprecation for IDs in v3

Fixed

• Path traversal vulnerability that may lead to type confusion in URI handling code
• Update contributing.md

[2.22.0] - 2022-12-10

Added

• Integration tests via GHA (non-user endpoints)
• Unit tests for new releases, passing limit parameter with minimum and maximum values of 1 and 50
• Unit tests for categories, omitting country code to test global releases
• Added CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md

Fixed

• Incorrect category_id input for test_category
• Assertion value for test_categories_limit_low and test_categories_limit_high
• Pin Github Actions Runner to Ubuntu 20 for Py27
• Fixed potential error where found variable in test_artist_related_artists is undefined if for loop never evaluates to true
• Fixed false positive test test_new_releases which looks up the wrong property of the JSON response object and always evaluates to true

[2.21.0] - 2022-09-26

Added

• Added market parameter to album and albums to address (#753
• Added show_featured_artists.py to /examples.
• Expanded contribution and license sections of the documentation.
• Added FlaskSessionCacheHandler, a cache handler that stores the token info in a flask session.
• Added Python 3.10 in GitHub Actions

Fixed

• Updated the documentation to specify ISO-639-1 language codes.
• Fix AttributeError for text attribute of the Response object
• Require redis v3 if python2.7 (fixes readthedocs)

[2.20.0] - 2022-06-18

Added

• Added RedisCacheHandler, a cache handler that stores the token info in Redis.
• Changed URI handling in client.Spotify._get_id() to remove qureies if provided by error.
• Added a new parameter to RedisCacheHandler to allow custom keys (instead of the default token_info key)
• Simplify check for existing token in RedisCacheHandler

Changed

• Removed Python 3.5 and added Python 3.9 in Github Action

[2.19.0] - 2021-08-12

Added

• Added MemoryCacheHandler, a cache handler that simply stores the token info in memory as an instance attribute of this class.
• If a network request returns an error status code but the response body cannot be decoded into JSON, then fall back on decoding the body into a string.
• Added DjangoSessionCacheHandler, a cache handler that stores the token in the session framework provided by Django. Web apps using spotipy with Django can directly use this for cache handling.

Fixed

• Fixed a bug in CacheFileHandler.__init__: The documentation says that the username will be retrieved from the environment, but it wasn't.
• Fixed a bug in the initializers for the auth managers that produced a spurious warning message if you provide a cache handler and you set a value for the "SPOTIPY_CLIENT_USERNAME" environment variable.
• Use generated MIT license and fix license type in pip show

[2.18.0] - 2021-04-13

Added

• Enabled using both short and long IDs for playlist_change_details
• Added a cache handler to SpotifyClientCredentials
• Added the following endpoints
  • Spotify.current_user_saved_episodes
  • Spotify.current_user_saved_episodes_add
  • Spotify.current_user_saved_episodes_delete
  • Spotify.current_user_saved_episodes_contains
  • Spotify.available_markets

Changed

• Add support for a list of scopes rather than just a comma separated string of scopes

Fixed

• Fixed the bugs in SpotifyOAuth.refresh_access_token and SpotifyPKCE.refresh_access_token which raised the incorrect exception upon receiving an error response from the server. This addresses #645.
• Fixed a bug in RequestHandler.do_GET in which the non-existent state attribute of SpotifyOauthError is accessed. This bug occurs when the user clicks "cancel" in the permissions dialog that opens in the browser.
• Cleaned up the documentation for SpotifyClientCredentials.__init__, SpotifyOAuth.__init__, and SpotifyPKCE.__init__.

[2.17.1] - 2021-02-28

Fixed

• allowed_methods requires urllib3>=1.26.0

[2.17.0] - 2021-02-28

Changed

• moved os.remove(session_cache_path()) inside try block to avoid TypeError on app.py example file
• A warning will no longer be emitted when the cache file does not exist at the specified path
• The docs for the auth parameter of Spotify.init use the term "access token" instead of "authorization token"
• Changed docs for search to mention that you can provide multiple types to search for
• The query parameters of requests are now logged
• Deprecate specifing cache_path or username directly to SpotifyOAuth, SpotifyPKCE, and SpotifyImplicitGrant constructors, instead directing users to use the CacheFileHandler cache handler
• Removed requirement for examples/app.py to specify port multiple times (only SPOTIPY_REDIRECT_URI needs to contain the port)

Added

• Added log messages for when the access and refresh tokens are retrieved and when they are refreshed
• Support market optional parameter in track
• Added CacheHandler abstraction to allow users to cache tokens in any way they see fit

Fixed

• Fixed Spotify.user_playlist_reorder_tracks calling Spotify.playlist_reorder_tracks with an incorrect parameter order
• Fixed deprecated Urllib3 Retry(method_whitelist=...) in favor of Retry(allowed_methods=...)

[2.16.1] - 2020-10-24

Fixed

• playlist_tracks example code no longer prints extra characters on final loop iteration
• SpotifyException now thrown when a request fails & has no response (#571, #581)
• Added scope, playlist-read-private, to examples that access user playlists using the spotipy api: current_user_playlists() (#591)
• Enable retries for POST, DELETE, PUT (#577)

Changed

• both inline and starting import lists are sorted using isort module
• changed Max Retries exception code from 599 to 429

[2.16.0] - 2020-09-16

Added

• open_browser can be passed to the constructors of SpotifyOAuth and SpotifyPKCE to make it easier to authorize in browserless environments

[2.15.0] - 2020-09-08

Added

• SpotifyPKCE.parse_auth_response_url, mirroring that method in SpotifyOAuth

Changed

• Specifying a cache_path or username is now optional

Fixed

• Using SpotifyPKCE.get_authorization_url will now generate a code challenge if needed

[2.14.0] - 2020-08-29

Added

• (experimental) Support to search multiple/all markets at once.
• Support to test whether the current user is following certain users or artists
• Proper replacements for all deprecated playlist endpoints (See https://developer.spotify.com/community/news/2018/06/12/changes-to-playlist-uris/ and below)
• Allow for OAuth 2.0 authorization by instructing the user to open the URL in a browser instead of opening the browser.
• Reason for 403 error in SpotifyException
• Support for the PKCE Auth Flow
• Support to advertise different language to Spotify
• Added 'collaborative' parameter to user_playlist_create method.
• Enforce CHANGELOG update on PR
• Adds additional_types parameter to retrieve currently playing podcast episode
• Support to get info about a single category

Deprecated

• user_playlist_change_details in favor of playlist_change_details
• user_playlist_unfollow in favor of current_user_unfollow_playlist
• user_playlist_add_tracks in favor of playlist_add_items
• user_playlist_replace_tracks in favor of playlist_replace_items
• user_playlist_reorder_tracks in favor of playlist_reorder_items
• user_playlist_remove_all_occurrences_of_tracks in favor of playlist_remove_all_occurrences_of_items
• user_playlist_remove_specific_occurrences_of_tracks in favor of playlist_remove_specific_occurrences_of_items
• user_playlist_follow_playlist in favor of current_user_follow_playlist
• user_playlist_is_following in favor of playlist_is_following
• playlist_tracks in favor of playlist_items

Fixed

• fixed issue where episode URIs were being converted to track URIs in playlist calls

[2.13.0] - 2020-06-25

Added

• Added SpotifyImplicitGrant as an auth manager option. It provides user authentication without a client secret but sacrifices the ability to refresh the token without user input. (However, read the class docstring for security advisory.)
• Added built-in verification of the state query parameter
• Added two new attributes: error and error_description to SpotifyOauthError exception class to show authorization/authentication web api errors details.
• Added SpotifyStateError subclass of SpotifyOauthError
• Allow extending SpotifyClientCredentials and SpotifyOAuth
• Added the market paramter to album_tracks

Deprecated

• Deprecated util.prompt_for_user_token in favor of spotipy.Spotify(auth_manager=SpotifyOAuth())

[2.12.0] - 2020-04-26

Added

• Added a method to update the auth token.

Fixed

• Logging regression due to the addition of logging.basicConfig() which was unneeded.

[2.11.2] - 2020-04-19

Changed

• Updated the documentation to give more details on the authorization process and reflect 2020 Spotify Application jargon and practices.

• The local webserver is only started for localhost redirect_uri which specify a port, i.e. it is started for http://localhost:8080 or http://127.0.0.1:8080, not for http://localhost.

Fixed

• Issue where using http://localhost as redirect_uri would cause the authorization process to hang.

[2.11.1] - 2020-04-11

Fixed

• Fixed miscellaneous issues with parsing of callback URL

[2.11.0] - 2020-04-11

Added

• Support for shows/podcasts and episodes
• Added CONTRIBUTING.md

Changed

• Client retry logic has changed as it now uses urllib3's Retry in conjunction with requests Session
• The session is customizable as it allows for:
  • status_forcelist
  • retries
  • status_retries
  • backoff_factor
• Spin up a local webserver to auto-fill authentication URL
• Use session in SpotifyAuthBase
• Logging used instead of print statements

Fixed

• Close session when Spotipy object is unloaded
• Propagate refresh token error

[2.10.0] - 2020-03-18

Added

• Support for add_to_queue
  • Parameters:
    • track uri, id, or url
    • device id. If None, then the active device is used.
• Add CHANGELOG and LICENSE to released package

[2.9.0] - 2020-02-15

Added

• Support position_ms optional parameter in start_playback
• Add requests_timeout parameter to authentication methods
• Make cache optional in get_access_token

[2.8.0] - 2020-02-12

Added

• Support for playlist_cover_image
• Support after and before parameter in current_user_recently_played
• CI for unit tests
• Automatic token refresh
• auth_manager and oauth_manager optional parameters added to Spotify's init.
• Optional username parameter to be passed to SpotifyOAuth, to infer a cache_path automatically
• Optional as_dict parameter to control SpotifyOAuth's get_access_token output type. However, this is going to be deprecated in the future, and the method will always return a token string
• Optional show_dialog parameter to be passed to SpotifyOAuth

Changed

• Both SpotifyClientCredentials and SpotifyOAuth inherit from a common SpotifyAuthBase which handles common parameters and logics.

[2.7.1] - 2020-01-20

Changed

• PyPi release mistake without pulling last merge first

[2.7.0] - 2020-01-20

Added

• Support for playlist_tracks
• Support for playlist_upload_cover_image

Changed

• user_playlist_tracks doesn't require a user anymore (accepts None)

Deprecated

• Deprecated user_playlist and user_playlist_tracks

[2.6.3] - 2020-01-16

Fixed

• Fixed broken doc in 2.6.2

[2.6.2] - 2020-01-16

Fixed

• Fixed broken examples in README, examples and doc

Changed

• Allow session keepalive
• Bump requests to 2.20.0

[2.6.1] - 2020-01-13

Fixed

• Fixed inconsistent behaviour with some API methods when a full HTTP URL is passed.
• Fixed invalid calls to logging warn method

Removed

• mock no longer needed for install. Only used in tox.

[2.6.0] - 2020-01-12

Added

• Support for playlist to get a playlist without specifying a user
• Support for current_user_saved_albums_delete
• Support for current_user_saved_albums_contains
• Support for user_unfollow_artists
• Support for user_unfollow_users
• Lint with flake8 using Github action

Changed

• Fix typos in doc
• Start following SemVer properly

Changed

• Made instructions in the CONTRIBUTING.md file more clear such that it is easier to onboard and there are no conflicts with TUTORIAL.md

[2.5.0] - 2020-01-11

Added follow and player endpoints

[2.4.4] - 2017-01-04

Python 3 fix

[2.4.3] - 2017-01-02

Fixed proxy issue in standard auth flow

[2.4.2] - 2017-01-02

Support getting audio features for a single track

[2.4.1] - 2017-01-02

Incorporated proxy support

[2.4.0] - 2016-12-31

Incorporated a number of PRs

[2.3.8] - 2016-03-31

Added recs, audio features, user top lists

[2.3.7] - 2015-08-10

Added current_user_followed_artists

[2.3.6] - 2015-06-03

Support for offset/limit with album_tracks API

[2.3.5] - 2015-04-28

Fixed bug in auto retry logic

[2.3.3] - 2015-04-01

Aadded client credential flow

[2.3.2] - 2015-03-31

Added auto retry logic

[2.3.0] - 2015-01-05

Added session support added by akx.

[2.2.0] - 2014-11-15

Added support for user_playlist_tracks

[2.1.0] - 2014-10-25

Added support for new_releases and featured_playlists

[2.0.2] - 2014-08-25

Moved to spotipy at pypi

[1.2.0] - 2014-08-22

Upgraded APIs and docs to make it be a real library

[1.310.0] - 2014-08-20

Added playlist replace and remove methods. Added auth tests. Improved API docs

[1.301.0] - 2014-08-19

Upgraded version number to take precedence over previously botched release (sigh)

[1.50.0] - 2014-08-14

Refactored util out of examples and into the main package

[1.49.0] - 2014-07-23

Support for "Your Music" tracks (add, delete, get), with examples

[1.45.0] - 2014-07-07

Support for related artists endpoint. Don't use cache auth codes when scope changes

[1.44.0] - 2014-07-03

Added show tracks.py example

[1.43.0] - 2014-06-27

Fixed JSON handling issue

[1.42.0] - 2014-06-19

Removed dependency on simplejson

[1.40.0] - 2014-06-12

Initial public release.

[1.4.2] - 2014-06-21

Added support for retrieving starred playlists

[1.1.0] - 2014-06-17

Updates to match released API

[1.1.0] - 2014-05-18

Repackaged for saner imports

[1.0.0] - 2017-04-05

Initial release