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Comment by zoltar | Hacker News Reader

I think something like this still works with a client id, secret, and a playlist:

  TOKEN=$(curl --basic --user $ID:$SECRET -X POST -d grant_type=client_credentials https://accounts.spotify.com/api/token | jq -r .access_token)
  curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" https://api.spotify.com/v1/playlists/$PLAYLIST/tracks | tee playlist-$PLAYLIST.json | jq -rc '.items[].track | "\(.artists[0].name) -- \(.name)"' | sort

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It works, but the tracks api is limited to 100 max results, so you have to call it multiple times with offset for larger playlists [1].

[1] https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/referenc...

Most APIs have page size limits.

Yep, I was just noting it for anyone else that tried it and was curious.

Yes, that's pagination :)

It should be possible to script that out too.

Yep, it is, I was just noting it in case someone was wondering why it was being wonky after trying it out.

I already did just to test it out, the results include a 'next' link that you can use :)

At least the TOKEN command was perfect for me, thank you! Instead of passing ID and SECRET, I wrote the values from the Spotify Developer Dashboard to a file like so: $ touch .spotify_credentials && chmod 600 .spotify_credentials then edited .spotify_credentials with client_id:client_secret, then $ curl --basic --user "$(cat .spotify_credentials)" -X POST -d grant_type=client_credentials https://accounts.spotify.com/api/token which was successful

Check out https://github.com/caseychu/spotify-backup

I'm a user / minor contributor. It could use some polishing, but it gets the job done (JSON or TSV output). I wonder if it could sidestep Spotify restrictions by not providing an explicit interface for uploading playlists to competing services -- just providing the download portion?

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