+#! /bin/python
+
+import requests, json, collections
+
+id = "censored"
+secret = "censored"
+Token = collections.namedtuple('token', ['access', 'refresh', 'err'])
+
+def refresh() :
+
+ authfile = open('./.auth', 'r+') # current refresh token is kept in .auth
+ rt = authfile.read().splitlines()[0];
+
+ params = {'client_id':id,
+ 'client_secret':secret,
+ 'grant_type':"refresh_token",
+ 'refresh_token':rt}
+
+ data = json.loads(requests.post(url = "https://accounts.spotify.com/api/token", data = params).text)
+ try:
+ authfile.write(data['refresh_token']); # refresh token is not updated if delta t < 3600ms
+ except:
+ pass
+ # print("Refresh token unchanged")
+ return(data['access_token']);
+
+header = {'Authorization': "Authorization: Bearer " + refresh()}
+response = requests.get("https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/player/recently-played", headers = header).text
+data = json.loads(response)
+# open('./sampleoutput.json', 'w').write(response); # for debugging
+print("\"" + data['items'][0]['track']['name'] + "\" by " + data['items'][0]['track']['artists'][0]['name']);