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Step 1 - Scraping the Billboard Hot 100

Create a new project in PyCharm/VSCode/Jupyter.

Include a header when you make your request to billboard.com.

​ header = {"User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0;


Win64; x64; rv:131.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/131.0"}

Using what you've learnt about BeautifulSoup, scrape the top 100 song titles on that
date into a Python List.

Hint: Take a look at the URL of the chart on a historical date:


https://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100/2000-08-12

In order to create a playlist in Spotify you must have an account with Spotify. If you don't already
have an account, you can sign up for a free one here: http://spotify.com/signup/

Once you've signed up/ signed in, go to the developer dashboard and create a new Spotify App:

https://developer.spotify.com/dashboard/

Once you've created a Spotify app, copy the Client ID and Client Secret into your Python project.
Spotify uses OAuth to allow third-party applications (e.g. our Python code) to access a Spotify
user's account without giving them the username or password. We'll explore OAuth more in later
modules on web development, but if you want you can read more about it here:
https://developer.okta.com/blog/2017/06/21/what-the-heck-is-oauth

Authenticating with Spotify is quite complicated, especially when you want to access a user's
account. So instead, we're going to use one of the most popular Python Spotify modules -
Spotipy to make things easier.

Using the Spotipy documentation, figure out how to authenticate your Python project with
Spotify using your unique Client ID/ Client Secret.

Use http://example.com as your Redirect URI. You're looking to get the current user id (your
Spotify username). As per the documentation, make sure you set the redirect URI in the Spotify
Dashboard as well.

Using the Spotipy documentation, create a list of Spotify song URIs for the list of song
names you found from step 1 (scraping billboard 100).
HINT 1: You need your own Spotify app Client ID and Secret, the ones in the image above won't
work.

HINT 2: This is the method you'll need:


https://spotipy.readthedocs.io/en/2.13.0/#spotipy.oauth2.SpotifyOAuth

HINT 3: Try passing the Client ID and Secret directly into the SpotifyOAuth() constructor instead
of using export or set.

HINT 4: You need the "playlist-modify-private" scope in order to create a private playlist on
Spotify.

HINT 5: If successful, you should see the page below show up automatically (be sure to click
Agree):
Then it will take you to the page below, example.com and you need to copy the entire URL in the
address bar:

Finally, you need to paste the URL into the prompt in PyCharm:
Now if you close PyCharm and restart, you should see a new file in this project called token.txt

5. Get the user id of the authenticated user (your Spotify username).

HINT 1: You'll need this method:


https://spotipy.readthedocs.io/en/2.13.0/#spotipy.client.Spotify.current_user

HINT 2: The output of the above method is a dictionary, look for the value of the "id" key.

HINT 3: If you see the error "HTTP Error for GET to


https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/ with Params: {} returned 403 due
to User not registered in the Developer Dashboard" double check you are
passing a username during the authorisation flow.

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