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</span></span><spanclass="token-line"style="color:#bfc7d5"><spanclass="token plain">var spotify = new SpotifyClient(config);</span></span></code></pre><buttontype="button"aria-label="Copy code to clipboard"class="copyButton_Ue-o clean-btn">Copy</button></div></div><p>The <code>IHTTPLogger</code> interface can be found <ahref="https://github.com/JohnnyCrazy/SpotifyAPI-NET/blob/master/SpotifyAPI.Web/Http/Interfaces/IHTTPLogger.cs"target="_blank"rel="noopener noreferrer">here</a>.</p><h2><aaria-hidden="true"tabindex="-1"class="anchor enhancedAnchor_2LWZ"id="simpleconsolehttplogger"></a>SimpleConsoleHTTPLogger<aclass="hash-link"href="#simpleconsolehttplogger"title="Direct link to heading">#</a></h2><p>The library ships with a simple console-based logger.</p><divclass="codeBlockContainer_K1bP"><divclass="codeBlockContent_hGly csharp"><pretabindex="0"class="prism-code language-csharp codeBlock_23N8 thin-scrollbar"style="color:#bfc7d5;background-color:#292d3e"><codeclass="codeBlockLines_39YC"><spanclass="token-line"style="color:#bfc7d5"><spanclass="token plain">var config = SpotifyClientConfig</span></span><spanclass="token-line"style="color:#bfc7d5"><spanclass="token plain"> .CreateDefault("YourAccessToken")</span></span><spanclass="token-line"style="color:#bfc7d5"><spanclass="token plain"> .WithHTTPLogger(new SimpleConsoleHTTPLogger());</span></span><spanclass="token-line"style="color:#bfc7d5"><spanclass="token plain"style="display:inline-block">
</span></span><spanclass="token-line"style="color:#bfc7d5"><spanclass="token plain">var spotify = new SpotifyClient(config);</span></span></code></pre><buttontype="button"aria-label="Copy code to clipboard"class="copyButton_Ue-o clean-btn">Copy</button></div></div><p>This logger produces a simple console output for debugging purposes:</p><divclass="codeBlockContainer_K1bP"><divclass="codeBlockContent_hGly text"><pretabindex="0"class="prism-code language-text codeBlock_23N8 thin-scrollbar"style="color:#bfc7d5;background-color:#292d3e"><codeclass="codeBlockLines_39YC"><spanclass="token-line"style="color:#bfc7d5"><spanclass="token plain">GET tracks/NotAnid []</span></span><spanclass="token-line"style="color:#bfc7d5"><spanclass="token plain">--> BadRequest application/json { "error" : { "status" : 400, "message" : "</span></span><spanclass="token-line"style="color:#bfc7d5"><spanclass="token plain"style="display:inline-block">
