Spotify Web API
The Spotify Web API is a RESTful web service that provides programmatic access to Spotify's music catalog, user data, and playback controls. It allows developers to retrieve metadata about artists, albums, tracks, and playlists, as well as manage user libraries and control playback on Spotify clients. The API uses OAuth 2.0 for authentication and returns data in JSON format.
Developers should learn the Spotify Web API when building music-related applications, such as music recommendation engines, playlist generators, or integrations with streaming services. It's essential for creating apps that need to access Spotify's vast music database, analyze listening habits, or control playback programmatically, making it valuable for music startups, data analysis projects, and IoT devices with audio features.