submitting a link to a discord bot and having it put it into a txt file #9974

You don't need the Spotify API just to store submitted links and randomly choose one.

For a small bot, you can append each submission to a text file:

import random
from discord.ext import commands

@bot.command()
async def submit(ctx, link: str):
if not link.startswith(
("https://open.spotify.com/", "https://spotify.link/")
):
await ctx.send("Please submit a Spotify link.")
return

with open("albums.txt", "a", encoding="utf-8") as f:
    f.write(link + "\n")

await ctx.send("Album submitted.")

Then randomly draw one:

@bot.command()
async def draw(ctx):
with open("albums.txt", "r", encoding="utf-8") as f:
albums = [
line.strip()
for line in f
if line.strip()
]

if not albums:
    await ctx.send("No albums have been submitted.")
    return

await ctx.send(random.choice(albums))

For a friend-group bot this is enough. If you later need to prevent duplicate submissions, track who submitted each album, or remove entries after drawing, SQLite would be a better next step than a text file.