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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...
My Question or IssueI want to know if there is an option to create a visual and functional design of my custom media player using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. that will involve implementing features such as play/pause controls, track progress bars, vol...
My Question or Issue I want to know if there is an option to create a visual and functional design of my custom media player using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. that will involve implementing features ...
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trying to make a lua that reads current playing (https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/player/currently-playing). now before this bs update that removed the easy button for getting bearer auth tokens with permissions you could set everything would work. now ...
trying to make a lua that reads current playing (https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/player/currently-playing). now before this bs update that removed the easy button for getting bearer auth tokens with pe...
Spotify Star
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i'm trying to get my bearer token for a lua i'm making that requires your bearer token to read what song you're listening to and print it, where the **bleep** do i find the button to get it with the user-read-currently-playing flag
i'm trying to get my bearer token for a lua i'm making that requires your bearer token to read what song you're listening to and print it, where the **bleep** do i find the button to get it with the&...
Spotify Star
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API for Ads does not return the Impressions metric which is an integral metric. It has been missing for over a month and no one has fixed it or acknowledged it yet. This is the second post about this issue. The previous post was posted with more deta...
API for Ads does not return the Impressions metric which is an integral metric. It has been missing for over a month and no one has fixed it or acknowledged it yet. This is the second post about this...
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I have been trying to get followers of an artist from different markets or countries. In return i get always the same numbers of followers, no matter how market or country i set as parameter, it always get the same value as return. That parameter doe...
I have been trying to get followers of an artist from different markets or countries. In return i get always the same numbers of followers, no matter how market or country i set as parameter, it alwa...
Spotify Star
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I have been developing a script to organize my music in a particular way. While I was figuring it out, I made API calls quite inefficiently. I eventually figured out how to be much more efficient, but I've been getting a mysterious "too many 429s" fo...
I have been developing a script to organize my music in a particular way. While I was figuring it out, I made API calls quite inefficiently. I eventually figured out how to be much more efficient, bu...
Casual Listener
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Hello, I have implemented a custom iframe api player on my website.It works fine. I want to shuffle and repeat all the tracks.Is it possible to set this with the iframe api or otherwise?The normal shuffle mode with the web-api is not working with the...
Hello, I have implemented a custom iframe api player on my website. It works fine. I want to shuffle and repeat all the tracks. Is it possible to set this with the iframe api or o...
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I am building an application that lets me fetch publicly available content for tracks and episodes given their ID. I don't require any login to my users since I don't need their data, but there's no way to access episode data without authorization (i...
I am building an application that lets me fetch publicly available content for tracks and episodes given their ID. I don't require any login to my users since I don't need their data, but th...
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PlanPremiumCountryFranceDeviceTested on multiple phone iOs/Android (currently Samsung A20)Operating SystemiOs/Android/Windows/Ubuntu/Mac My Question or IssueI'm facing a problem that i can't resolve, my my app app need the User to connect to Web Play...
Plan Premium Country France Device Tested on multiple phone iOs/Android (currently Samsung A20) Operating System iOs/Android/Windows/Ubuntu/Mac My Question or Issue I'm facing a prob...
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PlanFree/PremiumCountry Device(iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016)Operating System(iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.) My Question or Issue
Plan Free/Premium Country Device (iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016) Operating System (iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.) My Question or Issue
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PlanPremiumCountryIT, DE, AT DeviceSamsung Galaxy S20+Operating SystemAndroid 12.1 My Question or IssueWhen I use the Spotify webclient in the browser (tried with up-to-date Firefox, Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge) the "Recently Played" list is empty....
Plan Premium Country IT, DE, AT Device Samsung Galaxy S20+ Operating System Android 12.1 My Question or Issue When I use the Spotify webclient in the browser (tried with up-t...
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I have an application that simply searches Spotify. It does not retrieve any user data. I believe that this only requires 'client credentials' and does not require a refresh token. Indeed, I have this working (I am using a Java library right now - Sp...
I have an application that simply searches Spotify. It does not retrieve any user data. I believe that this only requires 'client credentials' and does not require a refresh token. Indeed, I have thi...
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I want to build an application as a gift, that has 2 functions:1) Show the Music I'm playing atm2) Synchronizing a Second account to my Music (after Button Press) (Both Spotify Premium Accounts) Like sessions, but using the Spotify API. Is this someh...
I want to build an application as a gift, that has 2 functions: 1) Show the Music I'm playing atm 2) Synchronizing a Second account to my Music (after Button Press) (Both Spotify Premium A...
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Edit: This was supposed to be an in-app idea. I'm new and posted this in the wrong place and can't seem to delete it. If interested, for the main post in the (hopefully this time) correct place, see https://community.spotify.com/t5/Idea-Submissions/S...
Edit: This was supposed to be an in-app idea. I'm new and posted this in the wrong place and can't seem to delete it. If interested, for the main post in the (hopefully this time) correct place, see ...
Regular
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PlanPremiumCountryUSA DeviceIPhone SE, IOS 16.1.1, IPad 5th generation IOS 16.3.1 Hi all! First of all I want to thank you for the cool API. I've developed a little app that loads tracks in an embedded player. It works great on my macbook pro chrome ...
Plan Premium Country USA Device IPhone SE, IOS 16.1.1, IPad 5th generation IOS 16.3.1 Hi all! First of all I want to thank you for the cool API. I've developed a little app that...
Spotify Star
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hello,i have been working on an app that uses spotify API and one of the things i need to do is get access to the top 25 tracks in a specified time range. the issue is that i keep getting a 403 error when i send get requests. i have spent hours tryin...
hello, i have been working on an app that uses spotify API and one of the things i need to do is get access to the top 25 tracks in a specified time range. the issue is that i keep getting a 403 err...
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PlanPremiumCountryUnited States My Question or IssueUsing the following code: using var client = new HttpClient(); client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Authorization = new AuthenticationHeaderValue("Basic", Convert.ToBase64String(System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.G...
Plan Premium Country United States My Question or Issue Using the following code: using var client = new HttpClient(); client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Authorization...
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So i have been working on an app for the past fiew days. I am now doing some testing for rate limits but the problem is i'm unable to see the retry-after time in the response when i get the error 429. So i can't do anithing about it and no matter how...
So i have been working on an app for the past fiew days. I am now doing some testing for rate limits but the problem is i'm unable to see the retry-after time in the response when i get the error 429...
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Plan: PremiumCountry: USOperating System: Windows 11 Hi all, I'm encountering this issue with a specific user that is already added to my app's allowlist. I have verified that the token exchange happens, and an initial request to https://api.spotify....
Plan: Premium Country: US Operating System: Windows 11 Hi all, I'm encountering this issue with a specific user that is already added to my app's allowlist. I have verified t...
Spotify Star
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I have previously had no issues with GET requests from /v1/playlists/ or /v1/playlists//tracks endpoints, but now I can't seem to GET from a search endpoint. I have the following code snippet for a GET search request: var responseApi = await fetch('h...
I have previously had no issues with GET requests from /v1/playlists/<playlist-id> or /v1/playlists/<playlist-id>/tracks endpoints, but now I can't seem to GET from a search endpoint...
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