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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...
Get Recommendations takes in parameters such as min/target/max of the following: acousticness, danceability, energy, instrumentalness, key, liveness, loudness, mode, speechiness, tempo, time_signature As well as seed track/artist/genre. Question: How...
Get Recommendations takes in parameters such as min/target/max of the following: acousticness, danceability, energy, instrumentalness, key, liveness, loudness, mode, speechiness, tempo, time_s...
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None of the below information is required. However, the more you provide the easier it will be for us to try and help.PlanFree/PremiumCountry Device(iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016)Operating System(iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,e...
None of the below information is required. However, the more you provide the easier it will be for us to try and help. Plan Free/Premium Country Device (iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macb...
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hello,recently, i have finished writing the major code for an app that uses spotify API. however, there is an issue i must solve before publishing the website. when logged into accounts that arent mine, i get 403 errors when i make a get request to r...
hello, recently, i have finished writing the major code for an app that uses spotify API. however, there is an issue i must solve before publishing the website. when logged into accounts that arent ...
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PlanPremiumCountryUSA->JapanMy Question or IssueI am trying to retrieve all my playlists, and I noticed that Spotify is not returning any of the playlists I've moved since my move to Japan. Is there some way to fix this?
Plan Premium Country USA->Japan My Question or Issue I am trying to retrieve all my playlists, and I noticed that Spotify is not returning any of the playlists I've moved since my move to Jap...
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Hi,recently I'm using Player endpoints from the Web API and I'm wondering why functionality like "Play Item" is missing. Only the "Add Item to Playback Queue" and "Skip To Next" endpoints are available, while simply playing the song (like pressing th...
Hi, recently I'm using Player endpoints from the Web API and I'm wondering why functionality like "Play Item" is missing. Only the "Add Item to Playback Queue" and "Skip To Next" endpoints ar...
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Am i allowed to make a Discord Bot using Spotifys API when i check that all using users have Spotify Premium? Or is it still against the TOS?
Am i allowed to make a Discord Bot using Spotifys API when i check that all using users have Spotify Premium? Or is it still against the TOS?
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When I try to find the track using an ISRC code, the response doesn't include the genre of the album and artist.
When I try to find the track using an ISRC code, the response doesn't include the genre of the album and artist.
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Hi,I recently made an app using Python using the Spotify API, and I am trying to upgrade the quota of the app. My website: http://marcow125.pythonanywhere.com/I was rejected for "Metadata, cover art and audio content must be accompanied by a link bac...
Hi, I recently made an app using Python using the Spotify API, and I am trying to upgrade the quota of the app. My website: http://marcow125.pythonanywhere.com/ I was rejected for "Metadata,...
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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...
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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&...
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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...
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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...
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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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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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