2.11: Podcasts, shows and episodes

Added

• Support for shows/podcasts and episodes
• Added CONTRIBUTING.md

Changed

• Client retry logic has changed as it now uses urllib3's Retry in conjunction with requests Session
• The session is customizable as it allows for:
  • status_forcelist
  • retries
  • status_retries
  • backoff_factor
• Spin up a local webserver to auto-fill authentication URL
• Use session in SpotifyAuthBase
• Logging used instead of print statements

Fixed

• Close session when Spotipy object is unloaded
• Propagate refresh token error

2.10: Add to queue

Added

• Support for add_to_queue
  • Parameters:
    • track uri, id, or url
    • device id. If None, then the active device is used.
• Add CHANGELOG and LICENSE to released package

2.9: Extra parameters

Added

• Support position_ms optional parameter in start_playback
• Add requests_timeout parameter to authentication methods
• Make cache optional in get_access_token

2.8: Auto-refresh token

Added

• Support for playlist_cover_image
• Support after and before parameter in current_user_recently_played
• CI for unit tests
• Automatic token refresh
• auth_manager and oauth_manager optional parameters added to Spotify's init.
• Optional username parameter to be passed to SpotifyOAuth, to infer a cache_path automatically
• Optional as_dict parameter to control SpotifyOAuth's get_access_token output type. However, this is going to be deprecated in the future, and the method will always return a token string
• Optional show_dialog parameter to be passed to SpotifyOAuth

Changed

• Both SpotifyClientCredentials and SpotifyOAuth inherit from a common SpotifyAuthBase which handles common parameters and logics.

2.7.1

Changed

• PyPi release mistake without pulling last merge first

2.7: Upload covers

Added

• Support for playlist_tracks
• Support for playlist_upload_cover_image

Changed

• user_playlist_tracks doesn't require a user anymore

Deprecated

• Deprecated user_playlist and user_playlist_tracks

2.6.3

Fixed

• Fixed broken doc in previous version

2.6.2: 2x performance boost

Fixed

• Fixed broken examples in README, examples and doc

Changed

• Allow session keepalive (improves performance x2)
• Bump requests to 2.20.0

2.6.1: Minor fixes

Fixed

• Fixed inconsistent behaviour with some API methods when
  a full HTTP URL is passed.
• Fixed invalid calls to logging warn method

Removed

• mock no longer needed for install. Only used in tox.

2.6: Pull from Harrison97's fork

Added

• Support for playlist to get a playlist without specifying a user
• Support for current_user_saved_albums_delete
• Support for current_user_saved_albums_contains
• Support for user_unfollow_artists
• Support for user_unfollow_users
• Lint with flake8 using Github action

Changed

• Fix typos in doc
• Start following SemVer properly