react-spotify-auth

Easy Spotify Authentication, written in React

Install

yarn add react-spotify-auth

npm install --save react-spotify-auth

Demos

User's top tracks (all user accounts)

Spotify Web Player (Premium Spotify accounts only, must be listening to a track prior to using)

Got something to add, or a feature you want? Send a PR or create an issue!

Quickstart

import { SpotifyAuth, Scopes } from 'react-spotify-auth'
import 'react-spotify-auth/dist/index.css' // if using the included styles

function App = () => {
  <SpotifyAuth
    redirectUri='http://localhost:3000/callback'
    clientID='your client id from spotify here'
    scopes={[Scopes.userReadPrivate, Scopes.userReadEmail]}
  />
}

Usage

import React from 'react'
import { SpotifyApiContext } from 'react-spotify-api'
import Cookies from 'js-cookie'

import { SpotifyAuth, Scopes } from 'react-spotify-auth'
import 'react-spotify-auth/dist/index.css'

const App = () => {
    const [token, setToken] = React.useState(Cookies.get("spotifyAuthToken"))
  return (
    <div className='app'>
      {token ? (
        <SpotifyApiContext.Provider value={token}>
          {/* Your Spotify Code here */}
          <p>You are authorized with token: {token}</p>
        </SpotifyApiContext.Provider>
      ) : (
        // Display the login page
        <SpotifyAuth
          redirectUri='http://localhost:3000/callback'
          clientID='1a70ba777fec4ffd9633c0c418bdcf39'
          scopes={[Scopes.userReadPrivate, 'user-read-email']} // either style will work
          onAccessToken={(token) => setToken(token)}
        />
      )}
    </div>
  )
}
export default App

API

SpotifyAuth

Here's some props that can be used to customize the button. Please enter your own values for redirectUri and clientID, otherwise your project may not work correctly.

Name	Required	Default	Description
redirectUri	✅	http://localhost:3000	Spotify redirect URI. In most cases, this is the URL of your webpage. It must be set in your Developer Console.
clientID	✅		Spotify app Client ID. Can be found from the Spotify Developer Console.
scopes		['user-read-private', 'user-read-email']	Array of camelCased equivalent for the scopes you are requesting. For example, if you wanted the scope user-read-recently-played you can enter [Scopes.userReadRecentlyPlayed].
onAccessToken		(token) => {}	Function that gets triggered when the component recognizes an access token after an auth grant. Is called with the parameter accessToken.
title		"Continue with Spotify"	Message inside the button.
btnClassName		style included in package	Class(es) that is given to the button.
logoClassName		style included in package	Class(es) given to the svg that draws the Spotify logo. Make sure to add a width if you use a custom class, otherwise it will not appear.
noLogo		false	Removes the Spotify logo from the button.
localStorage		false	Uses window.localStorage as a method to store the token. Note that localstorage does not have an expiry.
noCookie		false	When true, it does not store the auth token in a cookie named SpotifyAuthToken
showDialog		false	Whether or not to force the user to approve the app again if they’ve already done so. If false (default), a user who has already approved the application may be automatically redirected to the URI specified by redirect_uri. If true, the user will not be automatically redirected and will have to approve the app again.

SpotifyAuthListener

A simplified version of the SpotifyAuth component, returning nothing but still listening for any tokens that it might get.

Name	Required	Default	Description
onAccessToken		(token) => {}	Function that gets called when an access token is found
localStorage		false	When true, it will also store the token in window.localStorage under spotifyAuthToken.
noCookie		false	When true, it does not store the auth token in a cookie named SpotifyAuthToken

// place this on a page that you will redirect to
// if a <SpotifyAuth /> component isn't there already.
<SpotifyAuthListener />

Scopes

As indicated in the table above, scopes are accessible by the camelCased name given by Spotify. A full list can be found here along with their descriptions. These are included in the package mainly to help autocomplete and prevent annoying typos.

import { Scopes } from 'react-spotify-auth'

console.log(Scopes.appRemoteControl) // -> 'app-remote-control'

Persistence

Logging in every time a user wants to use your service is annoying.

To solve that problem, an entry is added to the user's cookies under spotifyAuthToken. As per Spotify docs, it has an expiration time of 2 hours after which the token will stop working. If you want to disable the cookie, you can pass in the prop noCookie.

You can access it directly through cookies.get() or through a library like js-cookie.

If you prefer working with the localStorage API, a prop of localStorage can be passed into the component, which can be accessed at spotifyAuthToken. Keep in mind however, that this does not offer the 2h expiry window.

Changelog

1.4.2 - 1.4.3

• Dependency upgrades

1.4.1

• Allowed to be used in iframe (thanks @ffleandro !)

1.3.2 - 1.3.5

• Dependency upgrades

1.3.1

• Add show dialogue parameter to url

1.2.1

• Move to React 17

1.1.0 - 1.1.4

• Dependency upgrades

1.1.0

• The real 1.0 update!

• Added SpotifyAuthListener for multipage applications. This means you don't have to render a SpotifyAuth button on every page that you want to redirect to, or otherwise aquire Spotify credentials.

• Scopes.all now gives you all the permissions available. Use with caution.

• Clear up localstorage code to be up to date with documentation

  1.0.1

• Update readme to remove warning

  1.0.0

• Added button logo classes

  0.5.3

• Bump deps for security

  0.5.1

• Potentially breaking changes by changing the values of default props, and adding new ones. Also better docs woo!

• Default props:

  • clientID: 1a70ba777fec4ffd9633c0c418bdcf39 -> nothing
  • redirectUri: http://localhost:3000/callback -> http://localhost:3000
  • onAccessToken: (token) => console.log('Access token: ', token) -> (token) => {}

• Added props:

  • localStorage, noCookie

License & Attribution

MIT © kevin51jiang

Inspired by this StackOverflow question