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Refresh token expiration: discussion thread

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...

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thlucas

Roadie

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February 2026 Spotify for Developers update: thread

Hey everyone, I’ve created this thread to provide an open space for discussion, feedback, concerns or ideas on an upcoming update to Spotify for Developers access. We’ve shared a blog post that explains what’s changing and why. Please use this thread...

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Kugelschreibert

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Superuser Contribution Comercial use of web api and or web sdk or embedded player

Hi there I am attempting to make a web application that is a guess the song game. Is there any way i could use the spotify api and web sdk or embedd the playlists to supply the small snippets of music to play somthing like 20-30 seconds of songs for ...

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Hi there I am attempting to make a web application that is a guess the song game. Is there any way i could use the spotify api and web sdk or embedd the playlists to supply the small snippets of musi...

Ximzend

Spotify Star

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Blank Login Screen using AuthenticationClient

PlanPremiumCountryUSA DevicePixel 3a Virtual Device (API 28)Operating SystemAndroid 9.0 Pie My Question or IssueI'm using the AuthenticationRequest and AuthenticationClient to connect a Spotify account to my app. After testing a few times with instal...

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Plan Premium Country USA   Device Pixel 3a Virtual Device (API 28) Operating System Android 9.0 Pie   My Question or Issue I'm using the AuthenticationRequest and AuthenticationC...

Ryuloki

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Superuser Contribution API: Number of Streams for a Track

DeviceAPI My Question or IssueI do not see any API commands to retrieve a track's total number of streams. BUT I am finding other third-party APIs and websites that can deliver number of streams. How are they doing this, if not the API?

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Device API   My Question or Issue I do not see any API commands to retrieve a track's total number of streams. BUT I am finding other third-party APIs and websites that can deliver number of...

AttackerGans

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I want to show the data on my spotify profile on my resource

I made it so that a person who is on the site can see his data by authorization via spotify and receiving a token. But how to make it so that by default - my data as the owner of the application (tracks, artists, etc.) will be shown.That is, if the u...

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I made it so that a person who is on the site can see his data by authorization via spotify and receiving a token. But how to make it so that by default - my data as the owner of the application (tra...

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All new releases (singles/albums) by country

Hello,I'm currently trying to return all new releases (singles+albums) in a specific country for the current month (or year). I am using R's spotifyr library and tried using the get_new_releases function. I'm after all daily releases for as many year...

Visitor

Hello, I'm currently trying to return all new releases (singles+albums) in a specific country for the current month (or year).    I am using R's spotifyr library and tried using the...

ddvoriashin

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Crawl All Data Without API KEY

I found a way to crawl all spotify data including all artists, all their songs, musics and ... without spotify developer account and without any constraint or being ban. I wanted to report this. how can I send my codes for you?

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I found a way to crawl all spotify data including all artists, all their songs, musics and ... without spotify developer account and without any constraint or being ban. I wanted to report this. how ...

MohammadM01

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Solved!! Entering the URL I was redirected to.

Hi all. I need help with my program. I am creating small GUI for my desktop APP (not commercial usage). I come to the "problem" that the Spotipy needs to enter the URL I was redirected to (not all the time), is there a way how to not needed it? Here ...

Regular

Hi all.  I need help with my program. I am creating small GUI for my desktop APP (not commercial usage).  I come to the "problem" that the Spotipy needs to enter the URL I was redirected ...

SandraHeinz

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Spotipy
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Get User's Playlists not returning "Old Collaborative Playlists"

PlanFree/PremiumCountryCanada My Question or IssueI'm working with the Get User's Playlists GET request and it appears that the request refuses to return collaborative playlists from before the recent update (collaborative == true in the response bod...

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Plan Free/Premium Country Canada   My Question or Issue I'm working with the Get User's Playlists GET request and it appears that the request refuses to return collaborative playlists from...

agier

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Showcase Our Talent - Students

I wanted to follow up on posts made 4 years ago about Spotify providing us with the ability to showcase our applications through showcases, competitions, or other alternative forms. From all the posts I have looked at, none have an update beyond this...

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I wanted to follow up on posts made 4 years ago about Spotify providing us with the ability to showcase our applications through showcases, competitions, or other alternative forms. From all the post...

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Retrieving a user's individual Release Radar or Discover Weekly playlist

I have an app that creates a playlist based on a user's Release Radar or Discover Weekly playlists. This app has been working fine for a long time, but as of sometime this week it seems to be malfunctioning (without any changes to my code). The way I...

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I have an app that creates a playlist based on a user's Release Radar or Discover Weekly playlists. This app has been working fine for a long time, but as of sometime this week it seems to be malfunc...

Ximzend

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content type error on POST method

PlanPremiumCountryZimbabweDeviceASUSOperating System Windows 11 My Question or IssueI am getting an error like this: { "error": "unsupported_grant_type", "error_description": "grant_type parameter is missing" } when I try to use the POST method to ge...

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Plan Premium Country Zimbabwe Device ASUS Operating System  Windows 11   My Question or Issue I am getting an error like this: { "error": "unsupported_grant_type", "error_des...

Ximzend

Spotify Star

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Player command failed: Restriction violated

PlanPremiumDeviceAsus Laptop, Brave browserOperating SystemWin 11 My Question or IssueI cant seem to figure out why specific songs will not play via the api. For example I list my liked songs which all play via spotify player, but on my project some ...

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Plan Premium Device Asus Laptop, Brave browser Operating System Win 11   My Question or Issue I cant seem to figure out why specific songs will not play via the api. For example I list m...

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Spotify Web API
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Error Code 403:Forbidden

I have developed an app using Spotify WebAPI.For submitting request for quota extension, I’m preparing a Spotify test account. This test account is a premium account as my service uses some of the APIs which are required users to be a premium user.Ev...

Regular

  I have developed an app using Spotify WebAPI. For submitting request for quota extension, I’m preparing a Spotify test account. This test account is a premium account as my service uses some...

angsumankar

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Issue : Invalid base62 id

PlanPremiumCountryFranceMy Question or IssueHello, after checkin an error on my app I found this error : { "error": { "status": 400, "message": "Invalid base62 id" }}So I tried on spotify playground and I still got the same error. I already checked t...

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Plan Premium Country France My Question or Issue Hello, after checkin an error on my app I found this error :  { "error": { "status": 400, "message": "Invalid base62 id" }} So I...

LambertSpot

Spotify

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Possible Bug
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429 error clarifications

Hi,The app I'm currently developing is still in testing phase, I don't have exceeded quote and have limited number of users that can test it. while testing edge cases of large volumes I have received error 429.My questions are:1)When user A uses my a...

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Hi, The app I'm currently developing is still in testing phase, I don't have exceeded quote and have limited number of users that can test it. while testing edge cases of large volumes I have receiv...

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429 response
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CreatePlaylist starting returning a 200 instead of 201 for successful results!

CreatePlaylist starting returning a 200 instead of 201 for successful results! This broke my application since I was looking for a 201.

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CreatePlaylist starting returning a 200 instead of 201 for successful results!  This broke my application since I was looking for a 201.    

NimrodYizhar

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Possible Bug
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[iOS] How to get authorisation code to generate access_token and refresh_token at backend web api?.

Hi, We are having some trouble implementing the IOS Spotify SDK. We use it in the context of user authorisation in order to get the `code`. We pass the `code` to our api (where it is transformed). Our api (nodejs) calls a spotify token endpoint and w...

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Hi,   We are having some trouble implementing the IOS Spotify SDK. We use it in the context of user authorisation in order to get the `code`. We pass the `code` to our api (where it is transfo...

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User or Artist?

I'm attempting to create a new app that will let you go to a landing page, follow an artist, and get a free .mp3 or other incentive. I'm a huge noob at API's but I chose "artist" here and added my URI and I got "true" back. When I tried user I got "f...

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I'm attempting to create a new app that will let you go to a landing page, follow an artist, and get a free .mp3 or other incentive.   I'm a huge noob at API's but I chose "artist" here and ad...

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