[Developers] Player API: No mention about the Spotify Premium condition

[Solid_Tester]

My Question or Issue

Is there anywhere in the Web API documentation

a mentioning about needing to use a Premium account

in order to send (some of the) Player API requests ?

I have looked in the below sections:

1. the entire Player API documentation
2. the guide on Authorization Scopes  (particularly those about modifying user playback state)

How I've come to this observation

I discovered some requests from the Player API

DO NOT work without an obligatory Spotify Premium plan.

This happened ONLY AFTER I've run a request and got the below response body (excerpt):

"error": {

        "status": 403,

        "message": "Player command failed: Premium required",

...

Thank you.

[Breysn · Accepted solution]

You need to be more specific about which requests in particular lead to a 403 where you think they shouldn't.

Many of the API calls the documentation you linked to do in fact state that a premium subscription plan is required.

Like for example under "Start/Resume a User's Playback":  If the user making the request is non-premium, a 403 FORBIDDEN response code will be returned.

[Solid_Tester]

Indeed.

I had lost my focus after a longer period of Spotify tests (inside Postman).

Thank you, I will remove this post.