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Getting currently playing song with Spotipy gives error: "'Spotify' object has no attribute 'currently_playing'"

I'm programming a script that returns your currently playing song from Spotify.

I read the documentation from Spotify API and everything is working well but I have some problems trying to implement some modules.

For example here https://spotipy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ said that there's a module called currently_playing() but I get this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "spotify_test.py", line 21, in <module>
    current_song = sp.currently_playing()
AttributeError: 'Spotify' object has no attribute 'currently_playing'

By far, this is my code, it works well when I change the scope and the module to obtain the playlists of a user. So the token is not the problem.

import sys
import spotipy
import spotipy.util as util

if len(sys.argv) > 1:
    username = sys.argv[1]
else:
    print('Usage %s Username ' % (sys.argv[0],))
    sys.exit()

scope = 'user-read-currently-playing'

token = spotipy.util.prompt_for_user_token(
    username, scope, redirect_uri='http://127.0.0.1/callback')

if token:
    sp = spotipy.Spotify(auth=token)
    current_song = sp.currently_playing()

else:
    print("Can't get token for", username)


print(current_song)
Solution

  • Even if PyPi claims that the version of Spotipy is the latest there, 2.4.4, in fact, it is not. I noticed that after installing Spotipy with pip, its source code is different from the head of the master branch on the GitHub. And the PyPi version doesn't have the currently_playing method.

    What worked for me is to uninstall Spotipy by running pip uninstall spotipy and to install it again directly from GitHub:

    pip install git+https://github.com/plamere/spotipy.git@master