Spotify Web API - Articles
The Spotify Web API allows developers to use their application to get data from the Spotify music catalog. The endpoints results in JSON format providing information such as artists, albums, and tracks directly from the Spotify catalog. Depending on user's authorization, the API can also provide developers access to user-related data i.e. playlists and musics saved in user's library.

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12 Top Music APIs
There are a wide range of music services on the internet that developers could tap into to create music applications, and there are hundreds of APIs available for developers to use for those applications. Here we highlight the most popular music APIs that are listed on ProgrammableWeb.
Best Practices and Tools for Documenting APIs
Congratulations, your API is now production ready. Next you will need to provide documentation to consumers so they can integrate the data and services you have exposed via API quickly. This part covers API documentation including the role of API specs and a number of available tools.
Join Today's Bloc TechTalk: Build a Singing Telegram with Twilio
Bloc is providing an introductory TechTalk with Twilio developer evangelist Eddie Zaneski at 5:00 pm PDT today that will cover how to use NodeJS , Twilio, and the Spotify API to build a simple application that can accept song requests via SMS and can return a call-back with a song.
How to Authenticate Spotify's Web API from a React and React-Router App
Spotify’s music streaming service provides ‘music for everyone’ in a way that has spawned dozens of related applications through Spotify API integration. In this tutorial, Jon Kaufman shows followers how to authenticate to Spotify’s web API from a React and React-Router app.
How Spotify's Poor API Hygiene Broke a Bunch of Hardware and Software
According to software engineer Stein Magnus Jodal, the developer behind the open-source music server, Mopidy, online music streaming company Spotify poorly managed its libspotify SDK and APIs, resulting in broken hardware and software applications that relied on the Spotify platform.
Most Popular APIs Used at Hackathons
For their first Rankings Report, Devpost published the most popular technologies used at student hackathons throughout 2014/15. Here we look at the most popular APIs by category.
Identify Spotify Music Genres with Google Prediction, Clarifai API
Deep Learning has applications in many fields. In this example, it is put to use across three APIs to predict what music genre an album is based on the cover artwork.
Top 10 Music APIs: Spotify, Last.fm, Rdio & Soundcloud
Music APIs span a wide range of capabilities and meet wide-ranging criteria. These APIs rank among the best in the category.
4 Ways APIs Are Changing the Future of the Music Industry
At APIdays in Paris, Cedric Begoc explained how APis are disrupting the music industry and shared examples of how developers are using the Spotify APIs to create new products.