Spotify short link support to get track - missing

[rakeshparveen5]

To get the spotify track we can use the trackId , but now found that the official Spotify mobile app can create short links for the track. Same short links can't interpreted by this package Or please share the methods if there is any support for this.
Thanks

[rinukkusu]

@rakeshparveen5 For reference can you share how such a shortlink looks like?

I get this for instance, when I press share on a song, which seems to just include the track id:

https://open.spotify.com/track/4lSUnT4x3ilmPKL2USgxjy

Of couse there also are the Spotify URIs, but these also contain the track id or whatever entity it is, that is being shared:

spotify:track:6rqhFgbbKwnb9MLmUQDhG6

[rakeshparveen5]

The short link provided by spotify mobile app : https://spotify.link/hRkBrwub9xb

[rinukkusu]

Hmmm, I don't think there is an official API for that at the moment...

Edit: after some more research I found this - maybe it helps upvoting this issue https://community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-for-Developers/Give-us-an-endpoint-to-decode-new-shortened-share-links/td-p/5523686

[henryssunday]

@hayribakici if you add the following header to your head request: "User-Agent": "curl/7.79.1" then Spotify will return the real url of the track/album/whatever.
Example:

Future<String> getExpandedUri(String url) {
Dio dio = Dio();
    dio.options.followRedirects = true;
    dio.options.maxRedirects = 10;
    Response<void> response = await dio.head(url,
        options: Options(headers: {"User-Agent": "curl/7.79.1"}));
    if (response.statusCode == 200) {
      return response.realUri.toString();
    } else {
      throw Exception();
    }
}

[hayribakici]

@tomcruisesfronttooth thank you, however the solution requires the dio package. Since this library uses http, this issue is still blocked (see the above comment).

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@rinukkusu (out of curiosity) do we still need the labels unclear and spotify issue for this?

[hayribakici]

I have good news regarding this issue. There is a merged PR in dart-lang/http#1109, that introduces a new class BaseResponseWithUrl, which contains a redirected url in the response. I'll remove the blocked label, so this can be feature can be implemented. I'll create a new issue for this.

@rinukkusu could this redirection of the url be used to retrieve the redirect url from the oauth authorization? If so, than we could implement a more streamlined authorization.

[rinukkusu]

Maybe it could be used for that as well! I'm really not an oauth expert tbh and glad that this got implemented by community members that seem to know what they are doing 😆

[hayribakici]

Yeah, I am also no oauth expert 😅