return only user owned playlist spotify api

Question

I want to get a list of playlists that a user owns from Spotify.

I don't want any collaborative or shared playlist, just the playlists the user owns, and can update.

It its explained here how to get a user's playlist.

My code currently looks like this. the problem is that it returns all playlist's that the user has, inlacing ones they do not own, or share. Is there something simple i can do with the auth scope to get just the user's playlist, or do i have to loop through the result's and only put the playlist in the array if the owner matches the playlist owner?

app.get('/user-playlists', function(req, res){

    var options = {
        url: 'https://api.spotify.com/v1/me',
        headers: {
            'Authorization': 'Bearer ' + access_token
        },
        json: true
    };

    request-promise(options).then(function(body) {
        var userId = body.id;
        var options = {
            url: 'https://api.spotify.com/v1/users/' + userId + '/playlists',
            headers: {
                'Authorization': 'Bearer ' + access_token
            },
            json: true
        };
        return rp(options).then(function (body) {
            var playlists = body.items;
            res.json(playlists);
        });
    }).catch(function (err) {
        console.log(err)
    })
});

Michael Thelin Michael Thelin · Accepted Answer · 2016-12-08T16:44:57

You'd need to retrieve the user's username using the Get Current User's Profile, and filter out any playlist that doesn't have the same owner value as the user's id. There's no endpoint in the API to only retrieve playlists that the user has created.

return only user owned playlist spotify api

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