topic Re: 403 You cannot create a playlist for another user in Spotify for Developers

403 You cannot create a playlist for another user

brett33 — Tue, 08 Nov 2022 04:24:06 GMT

I run an iOS app called LineupSupply -

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/lineupsupply-playlist-maker/id1631703551 which allows users create playlists. For a majority of users there is no issue. However some issues on shared family plans (Spotify Duo and other premium family plans) have issues creating playlists. They receive the error

"You cannot create a playlist for another user. (status code: 403)"

My code calls the /v1/me endpoint and passes in the resulting user id to the v1/users/user_id/playlists endpoint.

For the majority of users this works, but I have reports from some users that they receive this error. All of the ones who have reported the issue are on a family plan type of account.

Re: 403 You cannot create a playlist for another user

brett33 — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 00:59:29 GMT

This is no longer an issue for me. I'm not seeing a way to delete the post

Re: 403 You cannot create a playlist for another user

leshmoo — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 12:52:28 GMT

How did you solve it in the end? It does not work for me.

Re: 403 You cannot create a playlist for another user

schnabler — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 19:28:00 GMT

yeah. i'm also pretty stuck with this. anyone figured out why this is happening?

Re: 403 You cannot create a playlist for another user

zzzrod — Sat, 28 Oct 2023 21:52:42 GMT

I think one reason why you'd get this error is if you attempt to decode the user id from UTF-8 to ASCII, a simple user id change of (for example) `débug` to `debug` would result in that error (based on my experience).

If you parse the user id prior to making the API call, try to store it raw and see if you get a different error, like this for example:

"URI::InvalidURIError: URI must be ascii only"

I'm still looking for a solution.

Re: 403 You cannot create a playlist for another user

suresh375 — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 07:22:51 GMT

how to resolve above issue