main.py

sp = spotipy.Spotify(
    auth_manager=SpotifyOAuth(
        scope="playlist-modify-private",
        redirect_uri="http://example.com",
        client_id=YOUR UNIQUE CLIENT ID,
        client_secret= YOUR UNIQUE CLIENT SECRET,
        show_dialog=True,
        cache_path="token.txt"
    )
)
user_id = sp.current_user()["id"]
date = input("Which year do you want to travel to? Type the date in this format YYYY-MM-DD: ")
song_uris = ["The list of", "song URIs", "you got by", "searching Spotify"]

playlist = sp.user_playlist_create(user=user_id, name=f"{date} Billboard 100", public=False)
# print(playlist)

sp.playlist_add_items(playlist_id=playlist["id"], items=song_uris)

As of October 2025, this code is working as attended for everyone reference

import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import spotipy
from spotipy.oauth2 import SpotifyOAuth
import os
from dotenv import load_dotenv

load_dotenv()

user_input = input('Which year do you want to travel to? Type the date in this format YYYY-MM-DD: ')

headers = {'User-Agent': 'MY USER AGENT'}

site_html = requests.get(f'https://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100/{user_input}/', headers=headers).text
soup = BeautifulSoup(site_html, features='html.parser')

top_100 = soup.select('li ul li h3')
top_100_list = [songs.text.strip().replace('\n', '').replace('\t', '') for songs in top_100]

#print(top_100_list)
sp = spotipy.Spotify(
    auth_manager=SpotifyOAuth(
        client_id=os.getenv('SPOTIFY_CLIENT_ID'),
        client_secret=os.getenv('SPOTIFY_CLIENT_SECRET'),
        scope='playlist-modify-private',
        cache_path='token.txt',
        redirect_uri='http://127.0.0.1:9090',
        show_dialog=True,
        username='g35k',
))
user_id = sp.current_user()["id"]

song_uris = []
year = user_input.split('-')[0]
print(year)
for song in top_100_list:
    result = sp.search(q=f'track:{song} year:{year}', type='track')
    print(result)
    try:
        uri=result['tracks']['items'][0]['uri']
        song_uris.append(uri)
    except IndexError:
        print(f'{song} not found')


playlist = sp.user_playlist_create(user=user_id, name=f'{user_input} Billboard 100', public=False)


sp.playlist_add_items(playlist_id=playlist['id'], `items=song_uris)```

I believe struggling to understand the API document is a benefit, Learning happen best when struggling lol.

I think now the billboard is only giving list to subscribers

PLEASE I NEED HELP WHY THIS CODE DOESN'T WORK FOR ME?

import requests from bs4 import BeautifulSoup import spotipy from spotipy.oauth2 import SpotifyOAuth

CLIENT_ID = "9067a23713c34ea68d7276265816c720" CLIENT_SECRET = "334e6b70064546b092ad6b355ec171db"

url = "https://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100/"

date = input("Which year do you want to travel to? Type the date in this Format YY-MM-DD.")

response = requests.get(f"{url}{date}") web = response.text

soup = BeautifulSoup(web, "html.parser")

musics = soup.find_all("h3", "a-no-trucate") music_titles = [] for music in musics: title = music.get_text().strip() music_titles.append(title)

sp = spotipy.Spotify( auth_manager=SpotifyOAuth( scope="playlist-modify-private", redirect_uri="http://example.com", client_id=CLIENT_ID, client_secret=CLIENT_SECRET, show_dialog=True, cache_path="token.txt" ) )

user_id = sp.current_user()["id"]

song_uris = [] year = date.split("-")[0] for song in music_titles: result = sp.search(q=f"track:{song} year:{year}", type="track") # print(result) # print("space\n\n") try: uri = result["tracks"]["items"][0] song_uris.append(uri) except IndexError: print(f"{song} doesn't exist in Spotify. Skipped.")

Creating a new private playlist in Spotify

playlist = sp.user_playlist_create(user=user_id, name=f"{date} Billboard 100", public=False) print(playlist)

Adding songs found into the new playlist

sp.playlist_add_items(playlist_id=playlist['id'], items=song_uris)

print(playlist['id'])

It didn't work because you didn't target the "uri". Note what you did:

uri = result["tracks"]["items"][0] instead:
uri = result["tracks"]["items"][0]["uri"]