[Developer] Web API playback queue route

[flash110]

The Web API is lacking a public endpoint to fetch an authenticated users current queue. The addition of this would expand the creative possibilities developers would have at their disposal, without it a big chunk of what the Web API was designed to provide is simply not there.

[FlashRumpfi]

I also have a use case where I'd like to query the next upcoming tracks in the queue. It shoule work similar to endpoint /me/player/recently-played

[matthijskooijma]

Adding this feature (and maybe also the related feature of *removing* an item from the playback queue) would allow a third-party implementation of https://community.spotify.com/t5/Idea-Submissions/Other-Prevent-playing-the-same-song-again-soon/idi... (skipping repeats of the same or similar song in the queue when playing an artist or artist radio or so).

Without this, one would have to poll the player whenever a song change is expected (since there is also no realtime event notifications AFAICS), and then skip to the next track *after* the duplicate song started playing, which is not really pretty (probably better than playing the full duplicate track, though).

[durush]

Just checking are there any updates on this feature? the ability to get a queue, remove from queue, reorder queue seem like  very trivial and important features for a queue based music streaming platform.

thanks!

[Luan]

Updated on 2022-09-11

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[PhilipTrauner]

Looks like this was silently rolled out recently: https://developer.spotify.com/console/get-queue/

Its limited to 20 tracks, but there don't appear to be any context-based restrictions in place (radio stations, autoplay) 👏

[matthijskooijma]

Cool, that's a good start. For the "skip duplicate" usecase I am thinking about this still leaves the issue that you cannot seem to remove tracks from the queue, but it is now a lot easier to know when a skip is needed in advance.

[wiiwiiw]

It would be great if we could read currently playing index in the queue. That way user could tap song in the queue to skip to it

[Josenzo]

Not sure who implemented the new endpoint: https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/#/operations/get-queue. But it is completely useless the way is designed right now.

Why is the endpoint also showing the tracks that are going to play next from the radio? The array must be empty if there are zero tracks on the queue.

Not only that, no boolean or parameter identifies if the track is from the actual Queue (Next in queue), or the tracks that are going to play from the playlist (Next from: My playlist). This is crazy.

The documentation does not explain how to get more than two items. No matter what, I always receive two tracks.

[FuelCell12]

This would be amazing for developers! I have a number of project ideas that rely on queue logic. Please consider beefing up the API!

[Luan]

Updated on 2025-03-01

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