https://github.com/gSchool/spotify-albums-and-tracks
Learn about AJAX, JSON, and working with APIs
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Learn about AJAX, JSON, and working with APIs
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/gSchool/spotify-albums-and-tracks
- Owner: gSchool
- Created: 2015-11-11T01:42:49.000Z (almost 10 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2017-05-09T20:53:38.000Z (over 8 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-11-27T10:36:12.981Z (11 months ago)
- Language: JavaScript
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- Stars: 6
- Watchers: 10
- Forks: 112
- Open Issues: 5
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- Readme: readme.md
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README
# Spotify API Assignment
Spotify has a wonderful public API. Let's explore API usage using music because music is awesome. Your task will be to explore some of the endpoints that Spotify offers us. You'll want the documentation:
[https://developer.spotify.com/web-api/](https://developer.spotify.com/web-api/)
Outside of the documentation, which is expansive, Spotify offers an 'api console' which will create requests on your behalf. It's a lot like [Postman](https://www.getpostman.com/), check it out:
[https://developer.spotify.com/web-api/console/](https://developer.spotify.com/web-api/console/)
If you prefer to use Postman, you can! One of these tools will be useful. The nice thing about the Spotify Web Console is that it has a lot of human readable content to point you in the right direction.
## Getting the Code to Run
Fork then clone this repository! Then, from the repo directory run:
### Using Python
```
python -m SimpleHTTPServer
```
### Using Javascript
```
npm install -g http-server
http-server -p 8000
```
Now navigate chrome to http://localhost:8000
Try a search for your favorite artist!
## Whats Going On
As a baseline, we're making a single request to the Spotify API. You can look at the code or the network tab to see the request being made, but the gist is that we request to:
```
https://api.spotify.com/v1/search?type=artist&q=WHATEVER YOU TYPE
```
Head over to the API docs for more about the search endpoint! [https://developer.spotify.com/web-api/search-item/](https://developer.spotify.com/web-api/search-item/)
We parse the results, and populate them into the results area. Simple as pie.
## Your Task
Your task is to complete the function `displayAlbumsAndTracks`. Right now, when you click one of the results this function is called, but it simply prints to the console. This function should do 3 things:
1. Query the Spotify API for every album produced by the artist you clicked on.
2. For each of those albums fetch every track on the album.
3. Display this information to the user such that:
* Albums appear with its release date.
* Each album has its tracks displayed before the next album appears.
* All of this information should be appended to this div: `
`
This may seem simple, but it won't be. You will be using AJAX heavily; you will be parsing through some serious documentation; you will have to handle race conditions.
__Bonus__
Get the tracks 'popularity' metric and show it side by side with the track name.
### Heres a Tip
You'll need to use these two endpoints, but you may also need to use more:
[https://developer.spotify.com/web-api/console/get-album/](https://developer.spotify.com/web-api/console/get-album/)
[https://developer.spotify.com/web-api/console/get-artist-albums/](https://developer.spotify.com/web-api/console/get-artist-albums/)