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jake373 · 2023-11-15

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Premium

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United States

My Question or Issue

I'm using the Spotify API to develop an integration. I stopped working on it for a bit, and just started picking it back up today. Now, I get an HTTP 403 when making any request, with the error "Your client does not have permission to get URL ... from this server." (This is code that was working about a year ago.)

Even when making the most basic request from the "Request an access token" section of the "Getting started" guide, I get this error.

For example, for this request (client secret redacted on purpose):

curl -X POST "https://accounts.spotify.com/api/token" \
-H "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded" \
-d "grant_type=client_credentials&client_id=74945e5986c34168bc6231500f9dae05&client_secret=REDACTED"

I get this response:

<html><head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8">
<title>403 Forbidden</title>
</head>
<body text=#000000 bgcolor=#ffffff>
<h1>Error: Forbidden</h1>
<h2>Your client does not have permission to get URL <code>/api/token</code> from this server.</h2>
<h2></h2>
</body></html>

I tried making a new app in the developer dashboard, with a new Client ID and Client Secret, and am still running into the same issue.

Is it possible Spotify has banned my IP address? I can't think of another reason why this would be happening.

Edit: I tried making that exact same request from a different IP address, and it worked, so it really does seem like Spotify has banned my IP here. If someone from Spotify is able to help here, I can share the IP of my server with you over DM.

ohej · 2023-11-16

Hello! We're currently investigating this issue. Can you send a private message with the following info:

Your IP address
Hosting provider
A complete request/response (with headers) that is failing? Assuming you're getting HTTP 403?

You also mentioned that trying from a different IP, was this also from your hosting provider or?

Thanks!

felixmff · 2023-11-21

Same issue, here. Request works on local machine, but on vps fails. Is there another way to contact you? However, I am not able to send a private message.

Guestpectacular · 2023-11-21

I'm experiencing the same issue (403 forbidden error on Spotify API, v2) seems to be that Spotify API it's blocking us via IP, since I can make all API calls using my dev machine without any problem.

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