Python Programming Blueprints

Implementing the authorization code flow

In this section, we are going to implement the authorization code flow, which we will be using in the client. We need to use this authentication flow because we need to acquire special access rights from the user using our application to execute certain actions. For instance, our application will have to be able to send a request to Spotify's Web API to play a certain track on the user's active device. In order to do that, we need to request user-modify-playback-state.

Here are the steps involved in the authorization code flow:

1. Our application will request authorization to access data, redirecting the user to a login page on Spotify's web page. There, the user can see all the access rights that the ...