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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...
Hello!I'm planning to create a website where artists can submit their music to playlist curators for review, in exchange for a small fee paid by the artist. My question is: would this violate Spotify's terms and policies?I've noticed that platforms l...
Hello! I'm planning to create a website where artists can submit their music to playlist curators for review, in exchange for a small fee paid by the artist. My question is: would this violate Spoti...
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PlanFreeCountryIndiaDeviceAndroid DevicesOperating SystemAndroid My Question or Issuewe are trying to integrate Spotify Web APIs (Rest APIs) into our Android application. we are using Exo-player in our app for playback. we are using "client-credentia...
Plan Free Country India Device Android Devices Operating System Android My Question or Issue we are trying to integrate Spotify Web APIs (Rest APIs) into our Android application. we ...
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Hello!I want to build a social media app where people can the songs they listen to with their friends. At the moment the user would have to copy the song link from spotify and then insert it into my app. Then i would load the spotify embed preview pl...
Hello! I want to build a social media app where people can the songs they listen to with their friends. At the moment the user would have to copy the song link from spotify and then insert it into...
Music Fan
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Hey all — wondering if anyone else is seeing issues with the Get User's Top Artists endpoint when using the short_term time range? For context, we're using the /me/top/tracks endpoint with time_range=short_term, and while it was previously returning ...
Hey all — wondering if anyone else is seeing issues with the Get User's Top Artists endpoint when using the short_term time range? For context, we're using the /me/top/tracks endpoint ...
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Hi, For the past two days, I’ve been unable to create a new app in the Spotify Developer Dashboard.Every time I try, I receive the following error message: "Something went wrong, we were not able to create your app. Please try again later."I’ve tried...
Hi, For the past two days, I’ve been unable to create a new app in the Spotify Developer Dashboard. Every time I try, I receive the following error message: "Something went wrong, we were not able...
Casual Listener
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PlanPremiumDeviceall devices Operating Systemall OS'sMy Question or IssueI advised this before with no such luck, but can we think about adding an equalizer 1, 2, 3, etc. Having different equalizer settings that can be saved for different devices/or ...
Plan Premium Device all devices Operating System all OS's My Question or Issue I advised this before with no such luck, but can we think about adding an equalizer 1, 2, 3, etc. Having di...
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Hi everyone,We are a home and hotel automation company. We’ve recently introduced a feature where users can control their room ambiance using predefined scenes such as "Party Scene", "Morning Scene", and so on. When a user activates a scene like "Par...
Hi everyone, We are a home and hotel automation company. We’ve recently introduced a feature where users can control their room ambiance using predefined scenes such as "Party Scene", "Morning Scene...
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PlanFamilyCountryPolandDeviceAPI calls My Question or IssueI was about to create a small Python script that would simply analyze our family playlist (about 300-350 tracks) and build a table with filters where we could search for some happy tracks, sl...
Plan Family Country Poland Device API calls My Question or Issue I was about to create a small Python script that would simply analyze our family playlist (about 300-350 tracks) and bu...
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Expansion quotas have been restricted since May 15, but do we always have to have more than 250,000 MAUs? I can't submit for review due to 250,000 people even though I meet the criteria perfectly otherwise. Is this such an evil change? The documentat...
Expansion quotas have been restricted since May 15, but do we always have to have more than 250,000 MAUs? I can't submit for review due to 250,000 people even though I meet the criteria perf...
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Hi, My Question or IssueMy app is in react native however I am creating an expo module to use the android remote, but my issue is that my app isn't opening the auth flow, I thought it could be to do with passing in the wrong context but I'm not sure....
Hi, My Question or Issue My app is in react native however I am creating an expo module to use the android remote, but my issue is that my app isn't opening the auth flow, I thought it coul...
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I'm developing a Python application using the Spotipy library and attempting to implement the Authorization Code Flow to gain API access. I'm consistently running into an invalid_grant error during the token exchange step, and I've exhausted almost a...
I'm developing a Python application using the Spotipy library and attempting to implement the Authorization Code Flow to gain API access. I'm consistently running into an invalid_grant error during t...
Casual Listener
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Hey everyone I've been exploring ways to build smarter, AI-powered music experiences using the Spotify API. The idea is to combine listening behavior with external AI models (like mood detection or context prediction) to create ultra-personalized pla...
Hey everyone I've been exploring ways to build smarter, AI-powered music experiences using the Spotify API. The idea is to combine listening behavior with external AI models (like mood detecti...
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After the changes of the criteria of the wep API access in my app it wont let me apply for a quota extension request, even though my app matches the new criteria.
After the changes of the criteria of the wep API access in my app it wont let me apply for a quota extension request, even though my app matches the new criteria.
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I, after countless hours finally figured out how to allow someone to login, but after login, the url does not contain the access token or any subsequent information, all it says after the original redirect url is #unsupported_response_type.
I, after countless hours finally figured out how to allow someone to login, but after login, the url does not contain the access token or any subsequent information, all it says after the original re...
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Developing an application that pulls artist data. But I can even get to that point. Im trying to connect to authenticate with firebase and Im getting this error proccessing Spotify callback: 5 NOT_FOUND.Ive been trying for days and cant get past this...
Developing an application that pulls artist data. But I can even get to that point. Im trying to connect to authenticate with firebase and Im getting this error proccessing Spotify callback: 5 NOT_FO...
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My Question or IssueWe are looking to pull stats/data on number of followers, plays on our playlists. how can we get these stats from the API ?these are all public playlists on our channel. 31y67dlq2ud2ijmxo4dk4fnbq4nm
My Question or Issue We are looking to pull stats/data on number of followers, plays on our playlists. how can we get these stats from the API ? these are all public playlists on our channel. ...
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Hi all– I’m building an app that uses the Spotify Web API to fetch audiobook metadata from the /v1/audiobooks/{id} endpoint. For most audiobooks, the response includes the expected fields like title, name, authors, etc. However, for certain audiobook...
Hi all– I’m building an app that uses the Spotify Web API to fetch audiobook metadata from the /v1/audiobooks/{id} endpoint. For most audiobooks, the response includes the expected ...
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Whenever a playlist is removed from a feed, the 'stub' is left behind in me/episodes, causing significant bloat overtime of completely broken and performance hindered feeds. My last query for my episodes has most of the episodes now as null. I still ...
Whenever a playlist is removed from a feed, the 'stub' is left behind in me/episodes, causing significant bloat overtime of completely broken and performance hindered feeds. My last query fo...
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Hi guys, I have been working on a web app that basically creates a playlist for a users. Recently my app has been blocked, I believe the issue stems from making too many API request in a short period of time and not handling the retries correctly. I ...
Hi guys, I have been working on a web app that basically creates a playlist for a users. Recently my app has been blocked, I believe the issue stems from making too many API request in a short period...
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PlanPremiumCountryFranceDeviceDesktopOperating SystemWindows 11 Hi fellow developers and Spotify API team,I wanted to share a challenging issue I recently debugged with the Spotify Web API, hoping it might help others and provide some feedback. DISCL...
Plan Premium Country France Device Desktop Operating System Windows 11 Hi fellow developers and Spotify API team, I wanted to share a challenging issue I recently debugged with the S...
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