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Important: App review and quota extension waiting times

The Spotify for developers platform helps many bring their ideas to life. Whether it's a short term app helping an artist’s release or something more long term - there is always a chance of success. Things start to grow and then you might also need w...

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403 forbidden error on Spotify API

PlanPremiumClient ID04faea73cf99467b8c117a33870cd3bc My Question or Issue Hi team,I'm experiencing some 403 responses trying to connect to Spotify API, I've been checked my App Profile on Spotify App Dashboard and I've not seen any error, even I've r...

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  • Plan Premium Client ID 04faea73cf99467b8c117a33870cd3bc   My Question or Issue   Hi team, I'm experiencing some 403 responses trying to connect to Spotify API, I've been checked m...
  • Ximzend
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Solved!! API masthead/v1/masthead returns 400 status code

There is a new bug that I have encountered on the API endpoint "https://www.spotify.com/api/masthead/v1/masthead". Specifically, the issue occurs when the "market" query parameter is set to "in", it returns a HTTP status code of 400. I have provided ...

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  • There is a new bug that I have encountered on the API endpoint "https://www.spotify.com/api/masthead/v1/masthead". Specifically, the issue occurs when the "market" query parameter is set to "in", it ...
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Superuser Contribution storing lyrics from API

PlanFreeCountryRepublic of KoreaDeviceSamSung Galaxy S20 UltraOperating SystemAndroid Oreo My Question or IssueHi! We are learning Programming in SSAFY(https://www.ssafy.com/ksp/jsp/swp/swpMain.jsp, contact: **bleep** ). SSAFY stands for Samsung Soft...

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  • Plan Free Country Republic of Korea Device SamSung Galaxy S20 Ultra Operating System Android Oreo   My Question or Issue Hi! We are learning Programming in SSAFY(https://www.ssafy...
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Why can't I get the href of all of my playlists?

PlanPremiumCountryUSMy Question or IssueI created a dropdown menu that returns the href of the selected playlist: A lot of the playlists work, but there are some that don't return the href, such as this one: The playlist is public and is not collabor...

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  • ...ome that don't return the href, such as this one:   The playlist is public and is not collaborative.   I'm using this endpoint.   Has anyone experienced this issue before? T...
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Spotify Web Playback SDK device connection issue

DeviceiPhone 13, Windows, raspberrypiOperating SystemiOS 16, Windows 11, Raspbian My Question or IssueUnable to connect to web playback sdk on all but my iphone. The server launches with no errors: Starting the development server...Compiled successfu...

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  • Device iPhone 13, Windows, raspberrypi Operating System iOS 16, Windows 11, Raspbian   My Question or Issue Unable to connect to web playback sdk on all but my iphone. The server launches ...
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I would like to reapply for a quota extension and would like to know why it was denied.

PlanPremiumCountryJP I submitted my app Srive a couple of days back for a quota extension.My application was rejected, but the reason for the rejection is unclear.No email was sent, and the dashboard (https://developer.spotify.com/dashboard/applicati...

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  • Plan Premium Country JP   I submitted my app Srive a couple of days back for a quota extension. My application was rejected, but the reason for the rejection is unclear. No email was sent...
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Is the "Noon Pacific" music app still being supported by "Spotify"?

The "Noon Pacific" music app would allow you to "Like" songs which could then be found on "Like Songs" Spotify playlist. This app has been supported by Spotify, but for some reason the app crashes every time you try to open it. Trust me, I've tried "...

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  • The "Noon Pacific" music app would allow you to "Like" songs which could then be found on "Like Songs" Spotify playlist. This app has been supported by Spotify, but for some reason the app crashes e...
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Song Deletion Request, Privacy Questions

Hey Developer Community, We built a song recommender using Spotify's API, and one of our users requested us to remove their songs from our library due to privacy concerns.This means they wouldn't be found in the search field, and we wouldn't generate...

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  • Hey Developer Community,   We built a song recommender using Spotify's API, and one of our users requested us to remove their songs from our library due to privacy concerns. This means they w...
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I am getting a 502 Bad gateway error when trying to access the player API

When working on a C#/Blazor project that uses the SpotifyApi.Web nuget package (https://github.com/JohnnyCrazy/SpotifyAPI-NET) I am repeatedly getting a "SpotifyAPI.Web.APIException: Bad gateway" error. I am attempting to call the https://api.spotify...

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  • When working on a C#/Blazor project that uses the SpotifyApi.Web nuget package (https://github.com/JohnnyCrazy/SpotifyAPI-NET) I am repeatedly getting a "SpotifyAPI.Web.APIException: Bad gateway" err...
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Spotify Web API Request: GET Queue

There still seems to be no API endpoint for the queue is there any hope in getting one added?

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  • There still seems to be no API endpoint for the queue is there any hope in getting one added?
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API me/player/devices return status": 503, "message": "Service unavailable"

We have been getting this error from the API for the last 8 hours (it also shows on the spotify api test page). Can anyone tell if this is being investigated?https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/player/devices{ "error": { "status": 503, "message": "Service ...

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  • We have been getting this error from the API for the last 8 hours (it also shows on the spotify api test page). Can anyone tell if this is being investigated? https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/playe...
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Issues in the Spotify Web API reference documentation

I have found out that the reference documentation for the Spotify Web API is sourced by the OpenAPI specification file from https://developer.spotify.com/_data/documentation/web-api/reference/open-api-schema.yml. While using the Spotify Web API for t...

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  • I have found out that the reference documentation for the Spotify Web API is sourced by the OpenAPI specification file from https://developer.spotify.com/_data/documentation/web-api/referen...
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How to extract all playlist that is

PlanFree/PremiumCountry Device(iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016)Operating System(iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.) My Question or IssueHi everyone! I wanted to know how to extract all hip-hop related playlists. I tried to access...

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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 Hi ever...
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Playlist add items skip duplicates in Web API

I, along with many others, would like to see a Web API endpoint for checking if a playlist contains() a given track, as posted here on this github issue tracker. This would be useful for prompting the user if they would like to skip adding a duplicat...

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  • I, along with many others, would like to see a Web API endpoint for checking if a playlist contains() a given track, as posted here on this github issue tracker. This would be useful for prompting th...
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Why can't I play individual songs with premium but I can play playlists

So I can play music on playlists. I can't play music that I search up or any albums recommended to me. If I add music then I can play them on my PC. Also my PC's application doesn't connect to spotify on my phone. My web browser works perfectly fine.

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  • So I can play music on playlists. I can't play music that I search up or any albums recommended to me. If I add music then I can play them on my PC. Also my PC's application doesn't connect to spotif...
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Superuser Contribution Can't find commercial app integration request?

Hey, So much like the title says, I've done some research and figured I would need to request approval from spotify before making commercial use out of my web-based API app. However, while I did find the google forms link from a forum, I can't find t...

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  • Hey,   So much like the title says, I've done some research and figured I would need to request approval from spotify before making commercial use out of my web-based API app. However, while I...
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Solved!! 503 Service unavailable

For a few weeks or even months, I'm regularly getting 503 Service Unavailable in my requests. Seems to be mostly when accessing any of thehttps://api.spotify.com/v1/me/player endpoints. I think it prominently started after the issues back in Septembe...

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  • For a few weeks or even months, I'm regularly getting 503 Service Unavailable in my requests. Seems to be mostly when accessing any of the https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/player endpoints. I think it ...
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Curious how Blend distributes songs between two users

When I've created a Blend with others, my proportion of songs are way less than their's (I've like 5-10 songs on the blend and they have like 20-30). Is there a particular reason why this happens?

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  • When I've created a Blend with others, my proportion of songs are way less than their's (I've like 5-10 songs on the blend and they have like 20-30). Is there a particular reason why this happens?
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Track endpoints not returning all artist fields as documented

Bothhttps://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/#/operations/get-track and https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/#/operations/get-several-tracks indicate that a track artist's genres should be returned as par...

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  • Both https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/#/operations/get-track and https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/#/operations/get-several-tracks&...
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