Is the API failing?

[KevinReagan]

I am a recent new developer, but I had my application working great just a couple of weeks ago.    Through the API, I had my application doing just about everything I wanted  (adjust volume, start a playlist, do previous and next track, pause, resume).   I took about 10 days off.  Now most things are not working.

It seems that my GET calls to the API work, but not PUTs.

Is anyone else having this problem?

[Ximzend]

What does your code do? How do you get an Access token, an with which Scopes?

[KevinReagan]

I don't remember which scopes I originally requested, but my application was working fully just 2 weeks ago.   Here are some clips from my code:

1. I am able to get the access token successfully

2. I am able to run GETs like get list of devices

3.  I am unable to run PUTs like set volume.   This worked two weeks ago.

Thank you for any help you can give me.

#*************************************************************************
# Get Spotify access token
#*************************************************************************
lUrl = f"https://accounts.spotify.com/api/token"
headers = {}
data = {}

# Encode as Base64
message = f"{gClientId}:{gClientSecret}"
messageBytes = message.encode('ascii')
base64Bytes = base64.b64encode(messageBytes)
base64Message = base64Bytes.decode('ascii')

headers['Authorization'] = f"Basic {base64Message}"

data['grant_type'] = "refresh_token"
data['refresh_token'] = gAuthorizationRefreshToken

res = requests.post(lUrl, headers=headers, data=data)

gToken = res.json()['access_token']

#*************************************************************************
# Get a list of devices
#*************************************************************************

lUrl = f"https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/player/devices"

headers = {
"Authorization": "Bearer " + gToken
}

res = requests.get(url=lUrl, headers=headers)
lres = json.dumps(res.json(), indent=2)

#*************************************************************************
# Set Volume
#*************************************************************************

print("Entered Volume Routine")

Volurl = f"https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/player/volume?volume_percent=" + str(ActionValue1) + "&device_id=" + gDevice

headers = {
"Authorization": "Bearer " + gToken
}

print(Volurl)
res = requests.put(url=Volurl, headers=headers)
print(res)

[Ximzend]

You can try to get a new token with the user-read-playback-state and user-modify-playback-state scopes.

[KevinReagan]

Thank you.  I will try that.   

[KevinReagan]

What is interesting is that I am not getting any kind of a security response.  I am getting a 404 error.   This made me think the API might have been down.

[jfk52917 · Accepted solution]

Could you maybe provide the response body that you're receiving alongside the 404? Might help.

[KevinReagan]

Thank you for asking for the response body.  I was only looking at the status code 404.   Here is the full response:

{
"error": {
status": 404,
"message": "Device not found"
}
}

But what is odd is that I know I specified the correct device id.   I captured the api string:

https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/player/volume?volume_percent=25&device_id=ac7607375393d07737dd2741baca...

And that is a valid device on my system.    I can see it when I query for my devices and I have double and tripled checked to see that the device id is correct..   Any idea why the API would return invalid device?

[KevinReagan · Accepted solution]

Well, the problem turned out to be that my speakers (Amazon Echo Devices) needed to be rebooted.  Once I did this, my code started working again.   Thank you all who made suggestions !!!