Web Playback Deprecated?

dcaponi — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 21:57:14 GMT

Plan

Premium

Country

Device

Browser (Chrome)

Operating System

IOS

My Question or Issue

I'm trying to call up the web playback sdk to play songs in the browser. Following the guidance I created an access token with the following scopes (

streaming user-read-email playlist-read-private) and tried adding

app-remote-control and some of the playback state scopes

user-read-playback-state user-read-currently-playing user-read-playback-position.

None of the applied scopes seem to work as every time I load the web playback SDK I'm greeted with https://api.spotify.com/v1/melody/v1/check_scope?scope=web-playback 403 because "Token does not satisfy scope". I tried adding the web-playback scope but that seems to be deprecated as it's bounced back as an illegal scope.

So did the scopes change for using the web playback and the documentation isn't updated or is web playback not going to be a thing soon?

Re: Web Playback Deprecated?

Ximzend — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 17:21:24 GMT

Hi @dcaponi

Welcome to the Community, and thanks for your question!

To answer your question; the Spotify Web SDK is not deprecated.

According to the information on this page, you'll need the following scopes: streaming, user-read-email, and user-read-private. It seems you're missing the last one. Additionally, the other scopes you mentioned aren’t required if you're only using the Playback SDK.

I hope this clarifies things!

Cheers!

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