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Cannot Create App For Developers

Hello Spotify Developer Support,

I am unable to create an application through the Spotify Developer Dashboard.

I have investigated the issue through Chrome DevTools and confirmed that Spotify's app-creation endpoint is returning HTTP 403 Forbidden.

Request:

POST /api/ws4d/v1/applications

HTTP Status:

403 Forbidden

The response from Spotify is:

{
"code": 7,
"message": "The calling principal (**bleep**) is not allowed to perform this action",
"details": []
}

This appears to be a Spotify backend IAM/service-account authorization issue rather than an invalid application configuration.

I have already tested the application with only Web API enabled and a valid HTTPS redirect URI.

Application: SocialSeed
Website: https://blackseed.io
Redirect URI: https://social.blackseed.io/api/music/spotify/callback

Could you please escalate this to the Spotify Developer Platform engineering team and check the permissions/provisioning for the application-creation service?

I can provide screenshots of the 403 response from Chrome DevTools if needed.

Thank you.

Screenshot 2026-08-27 at 12.14.53 PM.png

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Hi @billytorr 

Thank you for bringing this up to our attention.

This is being looked into, and I hope it is solved soon.
Cheers!

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