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Add Spotify as a social connection

You will learn the following:

  • Use Spotify to authenticate users with OAuth

Before you start

Enabling OAuth with Spotify allows your users to sign up and sign in to your Clerk application with their Spotify account.

Caution

For development instances, Spotify requires users to be added to the app's allowlist in order to use Spotify as a social provider in your Clerk app. If they are not allowlisted, any API requests made with an access token associated with that user and the Spotify app will receive a 403 status code.

To make the setup process easier, it's recommended to keep two browser tabs open: one for the Clerk Dashboard and one for your Spotify Developer Dashboard.

Enable Spotify as a social connection in Clerk

  1. In the Clerk Dashboard, navigate to the SSO connections page.
  2. Select Add connection and select For all users.
  3. In the Choose provider dropdown, select Spotify.
  4. Ensure that both Enable for sign-up and sign-in and Use custom credentials are toggled on.
  5. Save the Redirect URI somewhere secure. Keep the modal and page open.

Create a Spotify app

  1. In the top-right of the Spotify Developer Dashboard, select Create app.
  2. Complete the required fields. For Redirect URIs, paste the Redirect URI that you saved from Clerk Dashboard.
  3. Select Save. You'll be redirected to your app's All Stats page.
  4. Select Settings.
  5. Save the Client ID and Client secret somewhere secure. To get the Client secret, select View client secret.

Set the Client ID and Client Secret in the Clerk Dashboard

  1. Navigate back to the Clerk Dashboard where the modal should still be open. Paste the Client ID and Client Secret values that you saved into the respective fields.
  2. Select Add connection.

Note

If the modal or page is no longer open, navigate to the SSO connections page in the Clerk Dashboard. Select the connection. Under Use custom credentials, paste the values into their respective fields.

Test your connection

The simplest way to test your connection is to visit your Clerk app's Account Portal, which is available for all Clerk apps out-of-the-box.

  1. In the Clerk Dashboard, navigate to the Account Portal page.
  2. Next to the Sign-in URL, select Visit. The URL should resemble:
  • For development – https://your-domain.accounts.dev/sign-in
  • For production – https://accounts.your-domain.com/sign-in
  1. Sign in with your connection's credentials.

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