https://community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-for-Developers/Confusion-regarding-developer-policy-on-analyzing-Spotify/m-p/5437991#M6617 <P><FONT color="#000000">Regarding the developer policy:&nbsp;</FONT></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><FONT color="#99CC00"><EM><STRONG>III. Some prohibited applications -&gt; 13.&nbsp;Do not analyze the Spotify Content or the Spotify Service for any purpose, including without limitation, <FONT color="#FF0000">creating new or derived listenership metrics, benchmarking, functionality, usage statistics, user metrics, or building profiles of users</FONT>, including for the purpose of targeting them with advertising or marketing.</STRONG></EM></FONT></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><FONT color="#000000">If I would like to create my own song chart based on my own metrics (that are not provided in Spotify API) inside my application, does this violate the rule as stated above?</FONT></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><FONT color="#000000">Help is very much needed as I could not find any answer across the internet. Thank you guys!</FONT></P> Sat, 01 Oct 2022 20:31:30 GMT JH96 2022-10-01T20:31:30Z https://community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-for-Developers/Confusion-regarding-developer-policy-on-analyzing-Spotify/m-p/5437991#M6617 <P><FONT color="#000000">Regarding the developer policy:&nbsp;</FONT></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><FONT color="#99CC00"><EM><STRONG>III. Some prohibited applications -&gt; 13.&nbsp;Do not analyze the Spotify Content or the Spotify Service for any purpose, including without limitation, <FONT color="#FF0000">creating new or derived listenership metrics, benchmarking, functionality, usage statistics, user metrics, or building profiles of users</FONT>, including for the purpose of targeting them with advertising or marketing.</STRONG></EM></FONT></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><FONT color="#000000">If I would like to create my own song chart based on my own metrics (that are not provided in Spotify API) inside my application, does this violate the rule as stated above?</FONT></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><FONT color="#000000">Help is very much needed as I could not find any answer across the internet. Thank you guys!</FONT></P> Sat, 01 Oct 2022 20:31:30 GMT https://community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-for-Developers/Confusion-regarding-developer-policy-on-analyzing-Spotify/m-p/5437991#M6617 JH96 2022-10-01T20:31:30Z https://community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-for-Developers/Confusion-regarding-developer-policy-on-analyzing-Spotify/m-p/5446751#M6775 <P>Anyone? It's really an important piece of information for developers to have a clear sense on the boundary of these rules and policies for the better development of Spotify third party services.</P> Wed, 19 Oct 2022 19:01:56 GMT https://community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-for-Developers/Confusion-regarding-developer-policy-on-analyzing-Spotify/m-p/5446751#M6775 JH96 2022-10-19T19:01:56Z