Configuration

To configure the Spotify client functionality, the SpotifyClientConfig class exists.

var config = SpotifyClientConfig.CreateDefault("YourAccessToken");
var spotify = new SpotifyClient(config);

// is the same as

var spotify = new SpotifyClient("YourAccessToken");

We won't cover every possible configuration in this part, head over to the specific guides for that:

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HTTPClient Notes

One important part of the configuration is the used HTTPClient. By default, every time a SpotifyClientConfig is instantiated, a new HTTPClient is created in the background. For Web Applications that require a lot of different configs due to user based access tokens, it is not advised to create a new config from scratch with every HTTP call. Instead, a default (static) config should be used to create a new config with a new access token.

Consider the following HTTP Endpoint:

public HttpResult Get()
{
  var config = SpotifyClientConfig.CreateDefault("YourAccessToken")
  var spotify = new SpotifyClient(config);
}

This creates a new HTTPClient every time a request is made, which can be quite bad for the performance. Instead, we should use a base config and use WithToken:

// somewhere global/static
public static SpotifyClientConfig DefaultConfig = SpotifyClientConfig.CreateDefault();

public HttpResult Get()
{
  var config = DefaultConfig.WithToken("YourAccessToken");
  var spotify = new SpotifyClient(config);
}

This way, a single HTTPClient will be used. For a real example, checkout the ASP.NET Example.