spotify-api-plusplus

A C++ wrapper for the Spotify Web API.

Building

First, install necessary dependencies, if you don't already have them.

sudo apt-get install cmake
sudo apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev

Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/smaltby/spotify-api-plusplus.git

Initialize submodules

cd spotify-api-plusplus
git submodule update --init --recursive

And finally, build using CMake

mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make

Testing

Running the unit tests for spotify-api-plusplus is a bit more complex, because you'll need a client id, client secret, and refresh token. The first two can be gotten by registering an application with Spotify here.

The refresh token requires a Spotify Premium Account. Follow this guide up to step 5 to acquire a refresh token. Use the following scope

scope=user-read-private%20user-read-email%20playlist-read-private%20playlist-read-collaborative%20playlist-modify-public%20playlist-modify-private%20user-follow-modify%20user-follow-read%20user-library-read%20user-library-modify%20user-read-private%20user-read-birthdate%20user-read-email%20user-top-read%20ugc-image-upload%20user-read-playback-state%20user-modify-playback-state%20user-read-currently-playing%20user-read-recently-played

Once acquired, the refresh token should work indefinetely for running the test cases for this library.

Create 3 files under the root of the project, client_id.txt, client_secret.txt, and refresh_token.txt, containing the values you acquired previously. The test cases should be able to use them to sucessfully authenticate with Spotify and make calls to the API.

To run the test cases, simply use

make test

after going through the steps to build the library.