Cannot search for track, artist, or album

When I try to use these commands:
spotify play track [song name]
spotify play artist [artist name]
spotify play album [album name]

It will just return

Searching albums for [album I entered]
No results found for [album I entered]

And similarly for track and artist searches.

I am using macOS High Sierra Version 10.13.2
What could the cause for this issue?

[sharma0611]

Spotify has upgraded their search api to require authorization. You need to create a client-id & client-secret; toss it to their accounts API; it returns a token. You need to use this limited time token to then authorize your search (client credentials auth process). To work around it, you can make a local hack that uses python and https://github.com/plamere/spotipy to perform the authorization, get the token, & then feed it to spotifycontrol (thats what I've done for the time being at least).

[zachgibson]

@sharma0611 Do you have a repo for this?

[sharma0611]

Yes. https://github.com/sharma0611/SpokenWord/tree/master/scripts has an updated spotify_ctrl script that uses a token created by another script in the same directory, spotify_auth.py. To run both, you need to add your credentials to a config.cfg file in the main repo. It's ugly but you can adapt it to your needs.

[zachgibson]

Nice, I’ll have to play around with that. Thanks for sharing. 🙌