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improve redirect wording and fix minor bugs
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@ -102,16 +102,18 @@ generate an authorization token that indicates that the user has granted
permission for your application to perform the given task. You will need to
register your app to get the credentials necessary to make authorized calls.
Even if your script does not have an accessible URL you need to specify one
when registering your application where the spotify authentication API will
redirect to after successful login. The URL doesn't need to work or be
accessible, you can specify "http://localhost/", after successful login you
just need to copy the "http://localhost/?code=..." URL from your browser
and paste it to the console where your script is running.
Even if your script does not have an accessible URL you will need to specify one
when registering your application which the Spotify authentication server will
redirect to after successful login. The URL doesn't need to be publicly
accessible, so you can specify "http://localhost/", and after succesfully
authenticating your app, you can simply copy the
"http://localhost/?code=..." URL from your browser and paste it to the
console where your script is running.
Register your app at
`My Applications
<https://developer.spotify.com/my-applications/#!/applications>`_.
<https://developer.spotify.com/my-applications/#!/applications>`_ and register the
redirect URI mentioned in the above paragragh.
*spotipy* supports two authorization flows:
@ -143,7 +145,7 @@ Call ``util.prompt_for_user_token`` method with the username and the
desired scope (see `Using
Scopes <https://developer.spotify.com/web-api/using-scopes/>`_ for information
about scopes) and credentials. This will coordinate the user authorization via
your web browser and ask for the SPOTIPY_REDIRECT_URI you were redirected to
your web browser and callback to the SPOTIPY_REDIRECT_URI you were redirected to
with the authorization token appended. The credentials are cached locally and
are used to automatically re-authorized expired tokens.