README.md

Spotify API

This project is intended to process the original responses from Spotify API into more readable way.

Prerequisites:

• php 8.1;
• http extension installed;

How to generate Spotify API keys:

• create an account on https://www.spotify.com
• go to https://developer.spotify.com/
• go to Dashboard section
• log in if needed
• create a new app
• go to the created app and copy keys

In order to use this repo, do the following:

• clone repository;
• run composer install;
• create .env file from .env.example
• pass these Spotify keys into .env file (SPOTIFY_CLIENT_ID and SPOTIFY_CLIENT_SECRET)
• run php artisan serve;

This is enough to use endpoints prefixed with /spotify

In order to enable search by genre functionality, do the following steps after the ones above:

• setup Mysql database locally;
• enter credentials in .env file;
• run php artisan migrate;
• run php artisan import:artists, which will import 7 example artists;

Swagger documentation:

• path = /api/docs;
• generate docs: php artisan l5-swagger:generate