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Discuss building apps with Spotify APIs and SDKs
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...
PlanFree/PremiumCountryGermanyOperating SystemWindows 10,etc. My Question or IssueHey guys, anyone knows, why I dont get a new refresh token if I refresh a token?The example answer in the docs is:{access_token: 'BQBLuPRYBQ...BP8stIv5xr-Iwaf4l8eg',tok...
Plan Free/Premium Country Germany Operating System Windows 10,etc. My Question or Issue Hey guys, anyone knows, why I dont get a new refresh token if I refresh a token? The example an...
Music Fan
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I tried to create a simple app based on your basic example code "I get this error This functionality is restricted to premium users only" even though I have a premium subscription. PlanPremium FamilyCountryUKDevice(iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook...
I tried to create a simple app based on your basic example code "I get this error This functionality is restricted to premium users only" even though I have a premium subscription. Plan ...
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PlanFreeCountryGermanyDevice--Operating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueIm trying to get the current Songs, but it always responses with eroro 404 not found.I alr tried with using the API /current-playing but it responses the same error.const ax...
Plan Free Country Germany Device -- Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue Im trying to get the current Songs, but it always responses with eroro 404 not found. I alr trie...
Music Fan
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I've recently started working on a project and noticed this part in the developer policy: You must also follow the Branding Guidelines when naming your SDA. For example, the name should not begin with “Spot” or be confusing in sound or spelling to Sp...
I've recently started working on a project and noticed this part in the developer policy: You must also follow the Branding Guidelines when naming your SDA. For example, the name s...
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From Web Playback SDK doc: This SDK must not be used in commercial projects without Spotify's prior written approval. How can I contact Spotify and get this confirmation? We would like to implement native Spotify integration with our browser extensio...
From Web Playback SDK doc: This SDK must not be used in commercial projects without Spotify's prior written approval. How can I contact Spotify and get this confirmation? ...
Spotify Star
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Hey all! Noob here... I have 3 questions:1. Is the 'Getting Started with Android SDK' supposed to work on Android 14? I can't seem to get it to work on my system. 2. Would it still work even if instead of an AppCompatActivity you used a ComponentActi...
Hey all! Noob here... I have 3 questions: 1. Is the 'Getting Started with Android SDK' supposed to work on Android 14? I can't seem to get it to work on my system. 2. Would it still wo...
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Hosting personal events such as a wedding or a party, would this fall under commercial use? i.e NOT the wedding venue, but their client throwing a wedding and using the app I'm creating.
Hosting personal events such as a wedding or a party, would this fall under commercial use? i.e NOT the wedding venue, but their client throwing a wedding and using the app I'm creating.
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PlanPremiumCountrySweden DeviceDesktop/Browser Operating SystemLinux Mint 21.2 My Question or IssueI was playing around with the iFrame API and wanted to go back to the beginning of a song.Neither grabbing the progress bar and putting it to 0, or `Em...
Plan Premium Country Sweden Device Desktop/Browser Operating System Linux Mint 21.2 My Question or Issue I was playing around with the iFrame API and wanted to go bac...
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I've been developing an app that involves artist's genres. When I take make the request to get the genres from a specific artist, i got in return an alphabetically sorted array of the genres. My main problem is that, in most of the cases, there's one...
I've been developing an app that involves artist's genres. When I take make the request to get the genres from a specific artist, i got in return an alphabetically sorted array of the genres. My main...
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PlanFree/PremiumCountryUKOperating SystemiOS My Question or IssueI am developing a new iOS app, similar to TikTok and seeking to use the spotify API to allow users to connect their spotify account to their account and have an anthem autoplaying over ...
Plan Free/Premium Country UK Operating System iOS My Question or Issue I am developing a new iOS app, similar to TikTok and seeking to use the spotify API to allow users to con...
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Hey guys/ team , not sure if this is already raised but for quite some time now , to be honest probably since i have Spotify acc. noticing that Artists with same names are getting combined into one “Artist Profile” (example: search for artist Heaven ...
Hey guys/ team , not sure if this is already raised but for quite some time now , to be honest probably since i have Spotify acc. noticing that Artists with same names are getting combined into one “...
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The Web Playback SDK appears incompatible with React 18 as discussed here: link. Can this be documented for developer awareness? It's not fun to spend hours getting a player set up to realize you can't use it. Additionally, is there any roadmap for R...
The Web Playback SDK appears incompatible with React 18 as discussed here: link. Can this be documented for developer awareness? It's not fun to spend hours getting a player set up to realize you can...
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So have the embedded player on our newly released podcasts beacon.ai and it fails to load about half the time, ending up with just a blank box with the error "upstream request timeout". Have also had reports of a couple folks not being able to play o...
So have the embedded player on our newly released podcasts beacon.ai and it fails to load about half the time, ending up with just a blank box with the error "upstream request timeout". Have also had...
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Using the web developer console, the search endpoint is no longer returning results for genres that include spaces or hyphens. This worked before, and has been broken for about a week:
Using the web developer console, the search endpoint is no longer returning results for genres that include spaces or hyphens. This worked before, and has been broken for about a week: ...
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We've created a app, where we get user data from Spotify and Store that user data. For this case do we need to show a privacy policy to the end user stating that we get that user data from Spotify and store it in our application. Do we need to show a...
We've created a app, where we get user data from Spotify and Store that user data. For this case do we need to show a privacy policy to the end user stating that we get that user data from Spo...
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Hello everyone, we use the Spotify API for an internal project that allows us to build playlists - the values for the popularity of the artist and the track come from Spotify. What we noticed very quickly: the same artist often receives different pop...
Hello everyone, we use the Spotify API for an internal project that allows us to build playlists - the values for the popularity of the artist and the track come from Spotify. What we notice...
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For my application I need to validate the user's registration date in Spotify but it seems like that information is not present in get user endpoint in the web API. Can I get the registration date from somewhere else?
For my application I need to validate the user's registration date in Spotify but it seems like that information is not present in get user endpoint in the web API. Can I get the registration date fr...
Spotify Star
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I'm the maintainer of spotify-web-api-php and recently got a bug regarding the Get Currently Playing Track endpoint returning an empty body when nothing is playing at all and no device is active. However, the docs doesn't reflect this. While digging ...
I'm the maintainer of spotify-web-api-php and recently got a bug regarding the Get Currently Playing Track endpoint returning an empty body when nothing is playing ...
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In the "Moving Through It: Getting An Application Reviewed" document, there is the line: Implementing an intelligent caching mechanism within your extension can significantly reduce the reliance on frequent API calls. By storing and retrieving freque...
In the "Moving Through It: Getting An Application Reviewed" document, there is the line: Implementing an intelligent caching mechanism within your extension can significantly reduce the rel...
Roadie
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