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Discuss building apps with Spotify APIs and SDKs
Hey everyone, I've created this thread to share some updates to how quotas work for Development Mode apps on the Spotify Web API to help you better organize your projects. We've shared a Blog post that explains everything in detail. Here's the short ...
Hey everyone, I've created this thread to provide more insight on an upcoming change to how refresh tokens work for apps on the Spotify Web API. We've shared a blog post that explains what's changing and why. The short version: refresh tokens will no...
have tried for 2h now to get to my dashboard but the page keeps loading and then I get this message: Something went wrong, we could not load this dashboard page. Try again later. Please help! // alex
have tried for 2h now to get to my dashboard but the page keeps loading and then I get this message: Something went wrong, we could not load this dashboard page. Try again later. Plea...
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PlanPremiumCountryNetherlandsDeviceDesktopOperating SystemWindows 11 My Question or IssueI a m trying to create an app on https://developer.spotify.com/dashboard/createThe form shows, but after x seconds the form disappears and i get this error: We w...
Plan Premium Country Netherlands Device Desktop Operating System Windows 11 My Question or Issue I a m trying to create an app on https://developer.spotify.com/dashboard/create ...
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Hi,I'm building a social music app called Drop — small friend groups share songs during sessions to a specific prompt, and users can save songs they discover. I want to sync those saved songs to Spotify (either a custom playlist or Liked Songs).The p...
Hi, I'm building a social music app called Drop — small friend groups share songs during sessions to a specific prompt, and users can save songs they discover. I want to sync those saved s...
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Hello Spotify Developer Team,I hope you’re doing well. I’m currently working on my Dissertation Thesis, which involves building a non‑commercial application focused on music theory analysis. As part of my research, I need access to two deprecated Spo...
Hello Spotify Developer Team, I hope you’re doing well. I’m currently working on my Dissertation Thesis, which involves building a non‑commercial application focused on music theory analysis. As par...
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PlanPremium CountryPoland Operating SystemUbuntu 26.04My Question or IssueHey. I’ve been vibe coded an app that automatically adds songs to playlists based on what I have on Last.fm (link to github app is not allowed - Damn - user: Draqun repo: chopi...
Plan Premium Country Poland Operating System Ubuntu 26.04 My Question or Issue Hey. I’ve been vibe coded an app that automatically adds songs to playlists based on what I hav...
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PlanNot applicable - Spotify Web API developer appFree/PremiumNot applicableCountrySouth KoreaDeviceServer-side app on Google Cloud RunOperating SystemNode.js on Google Cloud RunMy Question or IssueHello,I’m developing a music web service using the S...
Plan Not applicable - Spotify Web API developer app Free/Premium Not applicable Country South Korea Device Server-side app on Google Cloud Run Operating System Node.js on Google Cloud Run M...
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PlanPremiumCountryFrance My Question or IssueHi Spotify Developer Support,I hope you're doing well. I'm reaching out because I've lost access to the audio_features endpoint on my personal app, and I'm not sure what triggered it.A bit of context: I bu...
Plan Premium Country France My Question or Issue Hi Spotify Developer Support, I hope you're doing well. I'm reaching out because I've lost access to the audio_features&n...
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It would be really helpful to include a new API endpoint to get song credits. Currently you can only retrieve the listed performers, but this doesn't include writers/producers/engineers.
It would be really helpful to include a new API endpoint to get song credits. Currently you can only retrieve the listed performers, but this doesn't include writers/producers/engineers.
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Hi everyone, I’m building a small indie Spotify web app where users connect Spotify, load their playlists, and play a music guessing game based on their playlist tracks. The app works fine for allowlisted users, but I just realized Development Mode i...
Hi everyone, I’m building a small indie Spotify web app where users connect Spotify, load their playlists, and play a music guessing game based on their playlist tracks. The app wor...
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PlanPremiumCountryUnited StatesDevice2023 Macbook ProOperating SystemMacOS 26.3.1 My Question or Issue We use the Spotify Embed to play podcasts alongside synchronized, timestamped transcripts. Our sync data has millisecond precision (e.g., a lyric l...
Plan Premium Country United States Device 2023 Macbook Pro Operating System MacOS 26.3.1 My Question or Issue We use the Spotify Embed to play podcasts alongside synchronized...
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PlanPremiumCountrySpain DeviceWindows computerOperating SystemWindows 11 My Question or IssueAll calls to GET /v1/audio-features return 403 Forbidden even with valid Authorization Code Flow tokens.
Plan Premium Country Spain Device Windows computer Operating System Windows 11 My Question or Issue All calls to GET /v1/audio-features return 403 Forbidden even with valid A...
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I am seeing different behavior between playback started through the Spotify iframe API and playback started through the embedded player’s own controls. Environment:- Spotify Premium account- Logged into Spotify in the same browser- Desktop browser- S...
I am seeing different behavior between playback started through the Spotify iframe API and playback started through the embedded player’s own controls. Environment: - Spotify Premium accoun...
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How do we access a podcast's ratings spread through the API? Not just the total number of ratings and the average of them all, but the full spread, like in an array that shows how many 1-star, 2-star, 3-star, 4-star, and 5-star ratings there are for ...
How do we access a podcast's ratings spread through the API? Not just the total number of ratings and the average of them all, but the full spread, like in an array that shows how many 1-star, 2-star...
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There used to be a way to apply for production access instead of development access for the API, but I can't find how to do that. I even signed up as a paying user, but that didn't change anything about my dashboard UI.
There used to be a way to apply for production access instead of development access for the API, but I can't find how to do that. I even signed up as a paying user, but that didn't change anything ab...
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Plan: PremiumCountry: UKDevice: Windows PCOperating System: Windows 11My Question or Issue:I'm trying to migrate my own followed playlists into playlists I own, purely for personal library organisation. I have around 450 followed playlists I want to ...
Plan: Premium Country: UK Device: Windows PC Operating System: Windows 11 My Question or Issue: I'm trying to migrate my own followed playlists into playlists I own, purely f...
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I'm building ShortSync, a tool that lets creators distribute short-form vertical videos across multiple platforms from a single upload. A few of our podcaster users have asked about adding Spotify Clips support. I've looked through the Web API docs a...
I'm building ShortSync, a tool that lets creators distribute short-form vertical videos across multiple platforms from a single upload. A few of our podcaster users have asked about adding S...
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PlanPremiumCountryUK My Question or IssueI've set up Spotify authentication with my NextJS app via Supabase. When I authenticate I keep getting errors relating to the email address not being verified. Here's the callback URL I receive: http://localho...
Plan Premium Country UK My Question or Issue I've set up Spotify authentication with my NextJS app via Supabase. When I authenticate I keep getting errors relating to the email address n...
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Hi everyone,My name’s Daniel, and I wanted to share a passion project I built this summer: SpotiSnake. It’s a mashup of the classic Snake game with Spotify. You search an album, play Snake, and each apple reveals a piece of the album artwork. Every f...
Hi everyone, My name’s Daniel, and I wanted to share a passion project I built this summer: SpotiSnake. It’s a mashup of the classic Snake game with Spotify. You search an album, play Snake, and eac...
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I'm building a running app that uses the Spotify App Remote SDK to control playback during a run (pause, resume, volume ducking for audio cues) but makes zero calls to the Web API during the actual app session. The only potential Web API touchpoint I...
I'm building a running app that uses the Spotify App Remote SDK to control playback during a run (pause, resume, volume ducking for audio cues) but makes zero calls to the Web API during the actual a...
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Hello everyone! I have a little problem because the support advised me to write a topic here and hopefully some moderator will help me with that. Usually you can create 3 widgets in the Dashboard, I had 3 but I delete accidentally one of my widgets c...
Hello everyone! I have a little problem because the support advised me to write a topic here and hopefully some moderator will help me with that. Usually you can create 3 widgets in t...
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