Authentication Request

Add Authentication Request

Click on + Add requests and enter the request step name e.g. Authenticate with Spotify API.

Expand the Request section, from the drop-down change the request method to POST and enter the following URL:

https://accounts.spotify.com/api/token

In the Payload body section enter the following:

grant_type=client_credentials

Next, add two request headers with the following key/value pairings:

• CONTENT-TYPE: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
• AUTHORIZATION: Basic {{env.encoded_auth}}

Expand the Validation section and add the following extraction:

• Extract from Response body JSON $.access_token as access_token.

This will parse the JSON payload that is received from the Spotify API, extract the access token and store it as a custom variable.