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- Verify your email address if you haven't done so already.
- Click on the **Create app** button.
- In the **App name** & **App description** fields, you may put whatever you want.
- In the **Redirect URI** field, add `http://localhost/callback/`.
- In the **Redirect URI** field, add `http://127.0.0.1:{PORT}/callback/`. Replace `{PORT}` with any open ports on your local machine.
- Agree with Spotify's TOS and click **Save**.
- Click on the **Settings** button.
- Take note of the **Client ID** & **Client Secret**.

#### 2. Intermediary Steps 🛠️

```
https://accounts.spotify.com/authorize?client_id={CLIENT_ID}&response_type=code&scope=user-read-currently-playing,user-read-recently-played&redirect_uri=http://localhost/callback/
https://accounts.spotify.com/authorize?client_id={CLIENT_ID}&response_type=code&scope=user-read-currently-playing,user-read-recently-played&redirect_uri=http://127.0.0.1:{PORT}/callback/
```

- Copy and paste the above link into your browser.
- Replace `{CLIENT_ID}` with the **Client ID** you got from your Spotify application.
- Vist the URL.
- Log in if you're not already signed in.
- Click **Agree**.
- After you get redirected to a blank page, retrieve the URL from your browser's URL bar. It should be in the following format: `http://localhost/callback/?code={CODE}`.
- After you get redirected to a blank page, retrieve the URL from your browser's URL bar. It should be in the following format: `http://127.0.0.1:{PORT}/callback/?code={CODE}`.
- Take note of the `{CODE}` portion of the URL.
- Head over to <a href="https://base64.io">base64.io</a>.
- Create a string in the form of `{CLIENT_ID}:{CLIENT_SECRET}` and encode it to base 64.
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-X POST \
-H "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded" \
-H "Authorization: Basic {BASE_64}" \
-d "grant_type=authorization_code&redirect_uri=http://localhost/callback/&code={CODE}" \
-d "grant_type=authorization_code&redirect_uri=http://127.0.0.1:{PORT}/callback/&code={CODE}" \
https://accounts.spotify.com/api/token
```

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