Get 'Spotify' API Multiple Information.

DSpoty

R Package to Get Multiple Information from Spotify API.

Installation

devtools::install_github('https://github.com/AlbertoAlmuinha/DSpoty')

Authentication

You need to get your Spotify API Client ID and Secret ID. You can get yours here . The best way to authenticate is to set your ID’s to system environment variables (client_id and secret_id). If you prefer, you can use your ID’s en each function to call the function get_spotify_access_token, but it’s not recomendable.

Sys.setenv(client_id = 'client_id')
Sys.setenv(client_secret = 'client_secret')

access_token <- DSpoty::get_spotify_access_token()

Usage

Get Artist Information

You can get an artist Spotify information with the function get_artists. This function returns data like the name of the artist, links to open in spotify, popularity, number of followers or musical genre.

artist <- get_artist('Arctic Monkeys')

Another option is to search artists by musical genre. You can choose the number of artists returned and the year. The information returned is the same that with get_artists function.

artists_by_genre <- get_artists_by_genre('rock', limit = 20, year = 2019)

Finally, you can search related artists. In this case, you need the artist ID (and not the name) to use the function. You can get this information from the function get_artists or artists_by_genre. You will get the top 20 related artist.

related_artists<-get_related_artists(artist_uri = artist$artist_uri)

Get Albums Information

You can get the whole discography of an artist in few seconds with the function get_artists_albums. You must select one of the next options to the parameter album_type (default option is album):

• album
• single
• appears_on
• compilation

albums <- get_artist_albums('Arctic Monkeys')

albums <- get_artist_albums('Arctic Monkeys', album_type = 'appears_on', limit = 20)

Get Tracks Information

Firstly, you can get all the tracks of an artist. This can be done with the next function:

tracks <- get_artist_tracks('Arctic Monkeys')

You can also get all the tracks features information (like danceability, mode, acousticness, speechness, valence, loudness…) for an artist:

features <- get_artist_tracks_features('Arctic Monkeys')

You can also search for tracks recommendations based on another track. You can choose the number of recommended tracks returned:

recommended_songs <- get_tracks_recommendations_by_name('Arctic Monkeys', 'Do I Wanna Know?', limit = 10)

Search Spotify Item

You can also search an spotify item (artist, album or track) by name with the function get_spotify_item. We can use it in four different ways:

• Search an artist (this is basically the same output as get_artist function).

search_artist <- get_spotify_item(name = 'Arctic Monkeys', type = 'artist')

• Search an album with the ‘name’ parameter. In this case, we can get similar results but not exactly the album name specified in the parameter function (We can try to use a higher limit to get the desired album).

search_album <- get_spotify_item(name = 'Nuclear', type = 'album')

search_album_with_limit <- get_spotify_item(name = 'Nuclear', type = 'album', limit = 5)

• Search an album with the ‘artist’ and ‘album’ parameters to avoid the problem.

search_album_2 <- get_spotify_item(artist = 'Leiva', album = 'Nuclear', type = 'album')

• Search a specific track.

search_track <- get_spotify_item(name = 'Do I Wanna Know?' , type = 'track')

Issues

If you find some type of error, bug or doubt, please, let me know it here .

DSpoty Shiny App

The DSpoty App is an R Shiny Dashboard that shows multiple information based on DSpoty R package. You can access this App from here .

License

This package (DSpoty) is licensed under the MIT License.

A short and simple permissive license with conditions only requiring preservation of copyright and license notices. Licensed works, modifications, and larger works may be distributed under different terms and without source code.