Added documentation for windows users attempting to set environment variables (#822)

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Robinson Ibarra authored and GitHub committed 2022-06-18 23:30:07 +01:00
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@@ -5,10 +5,17 @@ If you would like to contribute to spotipy follow these steps:
### Export the needed environment variables
```bash
# Linux or Mac
export SPOTIPY_CLIENT_ID=client_id_here
export SPOTIPY_CLIENT_SECRET=client_secret_here
export SPOTIPY_CLIENT_USERNAME=client_username_here # This is actually an id not spotify display name
export SPOTIPY_REDIRECT_URI=http://localhost:8080 # Make url is set in app you created to get your ID and SECRET
# Windows
$env:SPOTIPY_CLIENT_ID="client_id_here"
$env:SPOTIPY_CLIENT_SECRET="client_secret_here"
$env:SPOTIPY_CLIENT_USERNAME="client_username_here"
$env:SPOTIPY_REDIRECT_URI="http://localhost:8080"
```
### Create virtual environment, install dependencies, run tests:
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@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ class SpotifyOAuth that can be used to authenticate requests like so::
print(idx, track['artists'][0]['name'], " – ", track['name'])
or if you are reluctant to immortalize your app credentials in your source code,
you can set environment variables like so (use ``SET`` instead of ``export``
you can set environment variables like so (use ``$env:"credentials"`` instead of ``export``
on Windows)::
export SPOTIPY_CLIENT_ID='your-spotify-client-id'