Announcements
From 28th September 2026, Community private messages will no longer be available. If you have any private messages you'd like to keep, please save or copy them using these steps before this date. Thank you.

Help Wizard

Step 1

NEXT STEP

API for controlling the local client

API for controlling the local client

Plan

Premium

Country

 

Device

Desktop

Operating System

Linux/Windows

 

My Question or Issue

I want to control the running spotify instance from another program (steamVR), and on Linux, I can use D-Bus, on Mac, there's applescript support, but how do I do this on Windows?

 

I really want to revive this https://github.com/rrkpp/SpotifyOverlay

 

Thanks for your time 🙂 

Reply
1 Reply

Welcome to the forum, @feitingen! We don't offer an SDK for the Windows desktop app yet. You might want to look at implementing the Web API, which can be used to control playback: https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/player/

Suggested posts

Let's introduce ourselves!

Hey there you,   Yeah, you! 😁   Welcome - we're glad you joined the Spotify Community!   While you here, let's have a fun game and get…

ModeratorStaff / Moderator/ 5 years ago  in Social & Random