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Updating the Criteria for Web API Extended Access

Hey, I created this thread to get your feedback on our blog post around changes to the Web API extended access criteria, which will take place on May 15th. Please share any of your thoughts on this change in the comments below. All of your feedback w...

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Superuser Contribution 400 Error from Get Recommendations

ContextI use the recommendations api all the time. In a new code base, it fails and I can't figure out why. The code is the same. Error messagespotipy.exceptions.SpotifyException: http status: 400, code:-1 - https://api.spotify.com/v1/recommendations...

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Context I use the recommendations api all the time. In a new code base, it fails and I can't figure out why. The code is the same.    Error message spotipy.exceptions.SpotifyException: ...

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Get Recommendations returns songs that don't fit the parameters requested.

CountryUSA My Question or IssueMaking a simple request to recommendations (using Spotipy) returns empty or inaccurate songs. My goal is to create a playlist filled with songs whose audio_features are as similar to the request as possible. However, yo...

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Country USA   My Question or Issue Making a simple request to recommendations (using Spotipy) returns empty or inaccurate songs. My goal is to create a playlist filled with songs whose audio...

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Where To Find Spotify API Refresh Token

PlanPremiumCountryUnited StatesDeviceDesktopOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueSo I'm a streamer on Twitch, and I like to listen to Spotify while I stream. I recently added this Spotify Playing Now extension to my Twitch channel, and in o...

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Plan Premium Country United States Device Desktop Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue So I'm a streamer on Twitch, and I like to listen to Spotify while I stream. I rece...

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Spotify API only works with my account even after I added Users

My Question or IssueRecently I have made an app using the Spotify API that displays your top 5 songs and 5 recommendations. The app works great with my account, but it does not work with any other accounts even after I added them in the Dashboard.The...

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  My Question or Issue Recently I have made an app using the Spotify API that displays your top 5 songs and 5 recommendations. The app works great with my account, but it does not work with an...

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Get audio url of my own content

Hi! I am developing a mobile app that is intended access and display audio content from a specific program available on Spotify (our own program). To achieve this, I need to retrieve the download URLs for the audio content associated with this progra...

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Hi!  I am developing a mobile app that is intended access and display audio content from a specific program available on Spotify (our own program). To achieve this, I need to retrieve the dow...

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Unable to create app in Spotify Developer

I cannot create an app. I get an error message "Something went wrong, we were not able to create your app. Please try again later." I've tried multiple times over the course of the day and used several browsers. I've tried resetting my password and v...

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I cannot create an app. I get an error message "Something went wrong, we were not able to create your app. Please try again later." I've tried multiple times over the course of the day and used sever...

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Autoskip mixed tracks

Can we please have a Setting under preferences to skip tracks that belong to a mixed album / dj set? It's hard on the ears to listen a 1 minute track that has no beginning or end. Itunes (the Steve Jobs era) had this setting under their preferences 1...

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Can we please have a Setting under preferences to skip tracks that belong to a mixed album / dj set? It's hard on the ears to listen a 1 minute track that has no beginning or end.   Itunes (th...

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Get Playback State shows timestamp 0 and progress_ms 0

PlanFree/PremiumCountryGermanyDevice(iPhone 14 Pro) My Question or IssueI'm building actually a IOS Shortcut which opens Spotify when CarPlay starts.After the Step that Spotify was opend i try to get the Playback State via https://api.spotify.com/v1/...

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  Plan Free/Premium Country Germany Device (iPhone 14 Pro)   My Question or Issue I'm building actually a IOS Shortcut which opens Spotify when CarPlay starts. After the Step that...

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Permission is missing for Player devices API

Have an oauth application that authenticates with the users Spotify account. Trying to make the following API call but we keep getting Permission is missing error: https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/get-a-users-available-de...

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Have an oauth application that authenticates with the users Spotify account. Trying to make the following API call but we keep getting Permission is missing error: https://developer.spotify.com/docum...

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Application Disabled and Blocked

Hi, My Provider API app has been disabled and blocked, it's not clear who should I contact to make an appeal. My client id is 98333c95bcc54c70881c36d1958eb38e Thanks in advance

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Hi,   My Provider API app has been disabled and blocked, it's not clear who should I contact to make an appeal.  My client id is 98333c95bcc54c70881c36d1958eb38e   Thanks in ...

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Issues with volume

Ive have premium for years now, im in the us and have an iPhone 12 thats fully updated. When i use spotify my volume randomly gets very quiet even on max volume and then randomly turns back up. I don’t have this issue with any other apps and i don’t ...

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Ive have premium for years now, im in the us and have an iPhone 12 thats fully updated. When i use spotify my volume randomly gets very quiet even on max volume and then randomly turns back up. I don...

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Solved!! Issue with the Search API Route

I'm not sure if there was a recent change that caused this bug, but when I pass in an Artist's name into the search query, a different artist pops up as the first index. This did not happen before, and I've done the same search on the actual API docu...

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I'm not sure if there was a recent change that caused this bug, but when I pass in an Artist's name into the search query, a different artist pops up as the first index. This did not happen before, a...

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Cannot get user's queue(403: Forbidden request), can we not get the queue for free accounts?

For some reason, I can't seem to get the queue for this particular user, but my other user seems to work fine. Can we not get queue if the user is a free account? Some checks:I have this account in my Spotify Developer User ListI have the correct sco...

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For some reason, I can't seem to get the queue for this particular user, but my other user seems to work fine.   Can we not get queue if the user is a free account?   Some checks: I ha...

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Embedded music permissions

Hello everyone! My QuestionI am making a website for the gym that I will be a part of and I was wondering if is it allowed to embed Spotify music playlists on such website? Spotify Widget Terms of Usee. Please note that the Spotify Play Button may no...

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Hello everyone!   My Question I am making a website for the gym that I will be a part of and I was wondering if is it allowed to embed Spotify music playlists on such website?    ...

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Is Dashboard down?

I tried to login into developer platform, but the top right button keep showing login even after a successful login, and we I tried to open my project directly with the link it shows "Something went wrong, we could not load this dashboard page. Try a...

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I tried to login into developer platform, but the top right button keep showing login even after a successful login, and we I tried to open my project directly with the link it shows " Something w...

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Not able to create App in the Dashboard

PlanPremiumCountryIndiaDeviceLenovo IdeaPad Gaming 3 [i5 10300H, 16GB RAM, 1TB HDD 512GB SSD, GTX 1650]Operating SystemWindows 11 My Question or IssueI have been trying to create an App on Spotify to access the WebAPI, but have not been able to for a...

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Plan Premium Country India Device Lenovo IdeaPad Gaming 3 [i5 10300H, 16GB RAM, 1TB HDD 512GB SSD, GTX 1650] Operating System Windows 11   My Question or Issue I have been trying to cr...

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"This functionality is restricted to premium users only" error even though I have Premium account.

I'm receiving "This functionality is restricted to premium users only" error even though I Premium account. This code was working 1 year ago. I have created my Spotify account just now and cancelled the free trial and got a paid Premium Individual to...

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I'm receiving "This functionality is restricted to premium users only" error even though I Premium account. This code was working 1 year ago. I have created my Spotify account just now and cancelled ...

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Search doesn't work anymore on API

I have an app that searches for a specific artist to retrieve some information. However, I've encountered a peculiar issue when attempting to fetch an artist using the Spotify API. For instance, when I use the URL (https://api.spotify.com/v1/search?q...

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I have an app that searches for a specific artist to retrieve some information. However, I've encountered a peculiar issue when attempting to fetch an artist using the Spotify API.   For insta...

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Solved!! Playing a full track from external site without user login

Hello all. What I'm trying to do is use the Client Credentials Flow in the Web API to fetch track information for an artist. That part is not a problem. However, I'm also trying to play the track from a website I'm developing. The CCF is not appropri...

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Hello all.   What I'm trying to do is use the Client Credentials Flow in the Web API to fetch track information for an artist. That part is not a problem. However, I'm also trying to play the ...

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Spotify imbedded player for website not working

I imbedded an artist to my website and it works perfect on the desktop but on the mobile version, the "play on Spotify" button is dead and doesn't go anywhere.

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I imbedded an artist to my website and it works perfect on the desktop but on the mobile version, the "play on Spotify" button is dead and doesn't go anywhere.

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