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Test out the new Spotify for Developers

Hey everyone, A new version of the Spotify for Developers website is coming soon! The new site includes a major redesign along with some new features and content. A beta version of the new website is ready for testing and we would love to hear what y...

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Welcome to the Spotify for Developers board!

Welcome to the Spotify for Developers board! This forum is the place for conversations about Spotify's Web API, Web Playback SDK, Widgets, and other developer tools. Here you can ask questions about the Spotify platform, chat with other developers, a...

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Sugerencias de sistema

PlanFree/PremiumCountryChileDeviceiPhone 6sOperating SystemiOS 14 My Question or Issuehola, soy un alguien que usa la aplicación en Latinoamérica, y quería preguntarles por dos cosas, o más bien hacer dos propuestas que me gustaría que fuesen escucha...

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  • Plan Free/Premium Country Chile Device iPhone 6s Operating System iOS 14   My Question or Issue hola, soy un alguien que usa la aplicación en Latinoamérica, y quería preguntarles p...
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Rate Limit

I have a music app that has 30,000+ Spotify users. I'm facing limit problems because of Rate limiting. Is there a process for requesting an application to be whitelisted?

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  • I have a music app that has 30,000+ Spotify users. I'm facing limit problems because of Rate limiting. Is there a process for requesting an application to be whitelisted?   
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Solved!!Superuser Contribution How do I add a local track to a playlist through the web api?

CountryNetherlandsDeviceWeb API My Question or IssueI'm using the web api to make a site that enables users to create and fill Spotify playlists through the (pretty awesome) spotify web api. I couldn't find how to add a local track to the playlist th...

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  • Country Netherlands Device Web API   My Question or Issue I'm using the web api to make a site that enables users to create and fill Spotify playlists through the (pretty awesome) spotify ...
  • spotifyjosh
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Featured Playlist For Previous Years

Country: USQuestion: Wondering why featured playlists for past years (i.e. 1990) have most of their songs from 2019-2020? Tried pulling a US featured playlist (@ https://developer.spotify.com/console/get-featured-playlists/) with the following date: ...

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  • Country: US Question: Wondering why featured playlists for past years (i.e. 1990) have most of their songs from 2019-2020? Tried pulling a US featured playlist (@ https://developer.spotify.co...
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PKCETokenRequest and Spotify Agreement

Operating SystemWindows My Question or IssueHello, I am using the Spotify API to developer a Windows UWP application. I'm using the PKCE Authorization work flow. It works as follows:1. Start application2. User is asked to login to spotify3. After log...

  • Roadie
  • Operating System Windows   My Question or Issue Hello, I am using the Spotify API to developer a Windows UWP application. I'm using the PKCE Authorization work flow. It works as follows: 1....
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API Rate Limiting Changed?

PlanPremiumCountryCanadaDevicePCOperating SystemWin10 My Question or IssueI'm currently contributing to an open-source Spotify widget (https://github.com/dvx/lofi/) where the API is polled every second. We use the response to set the track progress, ...

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  • Plan Premium Country Canada Device PC Operating System Win10   My Question or Issue I'm currently contributing to an open-source Spotify widget (https://github.com/dvx/lofi/) where the...
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Get /playlists/{id}/tracks returns 1 null track when playlist is empty

The issue arose after using the web API to add and remove tracks several times, as well as sometimes removing them by hand in the IOS app. The API now returns data saying there are tracks present when NO tracks are present. This behavior is inconsist...

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  • The issue arose after using the web API to add and remove tracks several times, as well as sometimes removing them by hand in the IOS app. The API now returns data saying there are tracks present whe...
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Get /playlists/{id}/tracks returns 1 null track when playlist is empty

I am not sure how to reproduce this issue. The issue arose after using the web API to add and remove tracks several times, as well as sometimes removing them by hand in the IOS app. PlanPremiumUSA DeviceMac OSX, IOS, Web Player (API issue)I have mana...

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  • I am not sure how to reproduce this issue. The issue arose after using the web API to add and remove tracks several times, as well as sometimes removing them by hand in the IOS app.  Plan Pr...
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Connecting to Spotify's MediaBrowserService

I tried to connect to the Spotify's MediaBrowserService without success. What types of applications are on the whitelist? And what do I have to change in my application to get trusted? E/Spotify: [main] onGetRoot: IGNORING request from untrusted pack...

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  • I tried to connect to the Spotify's MediaBrowserService without success. What types of applications are on the whitelist? And what do I have to change in my application to get trusted?   E/Spo...
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getting [Error: {"message":"Cannot seek in song: [UNKNOWN]"}] error with the Android Remote SDK

I got the latest App update (25th Aug 2020) and this has been happening ever since. I am getting the following error when I seek in a song:[Error: {"message":"Cannot seek in song: [UNKNOWN]"}] Please help me out here!!! My app relies heavily on the s...

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  • I got the latest App update (25th Aug 2020) and this has been happening ever since. I am getting the following error when I seek in a song: [Error: {"message":"Cannot seek in song: [UNKNOWN]"}]&nbs...
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Does Web Playback SDK or spotify connect have a timeout feature?

PlanPremium CountrySweden DevicePC Operating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueI've implemented my own player using the Web Playback SDK, this together with propepr authentication that is refreshed using the refresh token and to test it I wanted t...

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  • Plan Premium   Country Sweden   Device PC   Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue I've implemented my own player using the Web Playback SDK, this togethe...
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Solved!!Superuser Contribution TrackID miss in playlist

hi all!With some songs, the TrackID (determined with track_window.current_track.id via iframe player) does not match the IDs in the songs in a playlist.So I can sometimes not show which track is currently active from a playlist. Example:Playlist ID: ...

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  • hi all! With some songs, the TrackID (determined with track_window.current_track.id via iframe player) does not match the IDs in the songs in a playlist. So I can sometimes not show which track is ...
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Superuser Contribution set endpoint to spotify with python, Help.

Hello everyone, I'm using Python to build a library to control Spotify's music (play, stop, volume) for my raspberry pi wall display. I've been trying for hours to figure out if there is a way that Spotify API will send me an automatic update to sock...

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  • Hello everyone, I'm using Python to build a library to control Spotify's music (play, stop, volume) for my raspberry pi wall display. I've been trying for hours to figure out if there is a way that S...
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Player endpoint not working?

So I have been trying to request the "/me/player" endpoint, but I keeping receiving no response, on my app and on the Spotify Dev Console. So I looked up on the browser console and I noticed some errors. I tried to get a new token, clean the cache, b...

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  • So I have been trying to request the "/me/player" endpoint, but I keeping receiving no response, on my app and on the Spotify Dev Console. So I looked up on the browser console and I noticed some err...
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Superuser Contribution Fetching followed playlists

PlanPremiumCountry DeviceHP Elitebook 840 (Google Chrome)Operating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueWhen calling the /v1/me/playlists endpoint with postman using the access token received after authenticating with "Refreshable user authorization:...

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  • Plan Premium Country   Device HP Elitebook 840 (Google Chrome) Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue When calling the /v1/me/playlists endpoint with postman usin...
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Spotify artist console help!

Hey there. I am trying to find my Spotify popularity ranking through the Spotify Console. Whenever I try to get a token in order to get my artist, it will not bring up my artist profile. It just brings me to a menu. How do I bring up my my artist inf...

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  • Hey there. I am trying to find my Spotify popularity ranking through the Spotify Console. Whenever I try to get a token in order to get my artist, it will not bring up my artist profile. It just brin...
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Spotify SDE Playlist Contents for use in Recommendation App

PlanFree/PremiumCountryTurkey Operating System(iOS, Android) My Question or Issue We have plans for using Spotify Developer API in our mobile app for ios and android platforms. Our app will be generating a Playlist by getting user's playlist from Spo...

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  • Plan Free/Premium Country Turkey   Operating System (iOS, Android)   My Question or Issue   We have plans for using Spotify Developer API in our mobile app for ios and androi...
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"Invalid username" when trying to list devices

Premium plan, using client credentials auth as this is the Node backend of an app hitting the API. Devices are Windows 10 laptop and tablet. Country is US. Trying to write a Node script to play music on a certain device. But I can't get devices to li...

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  • Premium plan, using client credentials auth as this is the Node backend of an app hitting the API. Devices are Windows 10 laptop and tablet. Country is US.   Trying to write a Node script to p...
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Search API does not fetch all tracks

Hello, We are using search API to fetch tracks and albums for a keyword.API I used: GET https://api.spotify.com/v1/searchIf you search the "Elevate" keyword in this, then the song "Elevate" by Drake does not show up in response of API. Can you please...

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  • Hello,   We are using search API to fetch tracks and albums for a keyword. API I used:   GET https://api.spotify.com/v1/search If you search the "Elevate" keyword in this, then th...
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"Save Tracks for User" example not working with cURL

I just tried to use the example in https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/library/save-tracks-user/ and this was not working as expected. I just did a copy/paste (and replaced my Authorization header of course) and I got an err...

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  • I just tried to use the example in https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/library/save-tracks-user/ and this was not working as expected.   I just did a copy/p...
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