I'm trying to get the Spotify API working with AngularJS. I'm getting an invalid redirect URI error at the authorization stage (https://developer.spotify.com/web-api/authorization-guide/).
I have added the redirect_uri in the white list and it works when I have a URI such as
http://localhost:3000
but it doesn't work when I have a URI with a hash
http://localhost:3000/#/main
The reason I want to use the latter URI is because with the former I get a URI which I can't get the parameters from via angular
http://localhost:3000/<parameters returned from spotify>/#/main)
whereas I'd expect the URI to be like this:
http://localhost:3000/#/main/<parameters returned from spotify>
Any help would be much appreciated, thanks.
There are several ways you can do it. I recommend you to have a look at the possan/webapi-player-example, which is built using AngularJS and uses a PostMessage
to communicate between the redirect URI (callback.html
) and the Angular app (app.js
).
If PostMessages is not an option, you can try this:
- Start a loop to check a certain key on
localStorage
- Open the login page in a popup.
- From the callback page, write in
localStorage
the data you get back from Spotify (i.e. access_token
, refresh_token
, expires_in
).
- Close the popup after a couple of seconds
- The loop should have realised about the new value being written in localStorage.
The previous flow, although a bit more complex, works well in environments such as iOS devices where it is sometimes impossible to communicate between the callback page and the "main" page properly.