Fetching Spotify Featured Content

If you wish to access content that's featured and/or curated by Spotify there are a number of methods available to achieve that.

Getting a list of new releases

Note: This method is only available to extended quota apps.

$releases = $api->getNewReleases([
    'country' => 'se',
]);

foreach ($releases->albums->items as $album) {
    echo '<a href="' . $album->external_urls->spotify . '">' . $album->name . '</a> <br>';
}

Getting a list of featured playlists

$playlists = $api->getFeaturedPlaylists([
    'country' => 'se',
    'locale' => 'sv_SE',
    'timestamp' => '2015-01-17T21:00:00', // Saturday night
]);

foreach ($playlists->playlists->items as $playlist) {
    echo '<a href="' . $playlist->external_urls->spotify . '">' . $playlist->name . '</a> <br>';
}

Getting a list of Spotify categories

Note: This method is only available to extended quota apps.

$categories = $api->getCategoriesList([
    'country' => 'se',
    'locale' => 'sv_SE',
    'limit' => 10,
    'offset' => 0,
]);

foreach ($categories->categories->items as $category) {
    echo '<a href="' . $category->href . '">' . $category->name . '</a><br>';
}

Getting a single Spotify category

Note: This method is only available to extended quota apps.

$category = $api->getCategory('dinner', [
    'country' => 'se',
]);

echo '<a href="' . $category->href . '">' . $category->name . '</a>';

Getting a category's playlists

$playlists = $api->getCategoryPlaylists('dinner', [
    'country' => 'se',
    'limit' => 10,
    'offset' => 0
]);

foreach ($playlists->playlists->items as $playlist) {
    echo '<a href="' . $playlist->href . '">' . $playlist->name . '</a><br>';
}

Getting list of markets where Spotify is available

Note: This method is only available to extended quota apps.

$markets = $api->getMarkets();

print_r($markets);

Please see the method reference for more available options for each method.