topic Re: [Web API] Add WebSockets to the Web API for sending real-time events in Spotify for Developers

[Web API] Add WebSockets to the Web API for sending real-time events

iShibi — Thu, 27 May 2021 11:56:44 GMT

Add WebSockets to the Web API for sending real-time events like play, pause, skip and more. This way the users of the API will not have to make frequent requests for these kinds of data and will get the data when these events happens. This will really help library devs like me and will save a lot of unnecessary requests to your servers. I'll suggest making it on the line of Discords Gateway API.

Re: [Web API] Add WebSockets to the Web API for sending real-time events

FAME_O — Fri, 28 May 2021 12:40:13 GMT

I was just thinking this. This is holding Spotify dependent innovation behind. I'm working on a embedded system and if another streaming service had to offer web sockets, I would ditch Spotify. I would also have to tell my customers that my product wont work with Spotify.

Re: [Web API] Add WebSockets to the Web API for sending real-time events

iShibi — Wed, 02 Jun 2021 15:00:04 GMT

People have been asking for this from Spotify for years but they aren't responding. Someone had also posted it in the ideas page but it didn't get required votes, so they closed it. I really want Spotify to be friendly with their users but it seems Spotify doesn't like open-source that much. Their API docs have a lot of mistakes which could have been fixed if they had open-sourced it on GitHub. They should learn from Discord, I like Spotify but they are really binding hands of devs like me by not listening to the requests we are making.

Spotify just release the WebSockets for everyone 🙏

Re: [Web API] Add WebSockets to the Web API for sending real-time events

PackElend — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 10:44:02 GMT

Does the Discord API provide options when you connect Spotify with Discord? (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51528806/spotify-webhooks/51569606#comment134771655_51569606) as a workaround?

I found some old projects on GitHub but I don't think they allow to send real-time events

https://github.com/lrholmes/spotify-connect-ws (unlikely)
https://github.com/TooTallNate/node-spotify-web/ --> Web Player?

Re: [Web API] Add WebSockets to the Web API for sending real-time events

Peter_Schorn — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 05:54:40 GMT

It should also be noted that Spotify already has private web socket APIs that it uses for its native clients. All it needs to do is open-source and document them.