How to call the Spotify API from C#

Question

I\'m trying to call the spotify API with C#. Unfortunately, I\'m already stuck with getting the access token

This is how I tried to get it:

Answer 1

Spotify API from C#

public string GetAccessToken()
    {
            SpotifyToken token = new SpotifyToken();
            string url5 = "https://accounts.spotify.com/api/token";
            var clientid = "your_client_id";
            var clientsecret = "your_client_secret";

            //request to get the access token
            var encode_clientid_clientsecret = Convert.ToBase64String(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(string.Format("{0}:{1}", clientid, clientsecret)));

            HttpWebRequest webRequest = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(url5);

            webRequest.Method = "POST";
            webRequest.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
            webRequest.Accept = "application/json";
            webRequest.Headers.Add("Authorization: Basic " + encode_clientid_clientsecret);

            var request = ("grant_type=client_credentials");
            byte[] req_bytes = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(request);
            webRequest.ContentLength = req_bytes.Length;

            Stream strm = webRequest.GetRequestStream();
            strm.Write(req_bytes, 0, req_bytes.Length);
            strm.Close();

            HttpWebResponse resp = (HttpWebResponse)webRequest.GetResponse();
            String json = "";
            using (Stream respStr = resp.GetResponseStream())
            {
                using (StreamReader rdr = new StreamReader(respStr, Encoding.UTF8))
                {
                    //should get back a string i can then turn to json and parse for accesstoken
                    json = rdr.ReadToEnd();
                    rdr.Close();
                }
            }
     return token.access_token;
}