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Updating the Criteria for Web API Extended Access

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...

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Integrate Genres to My Extended Streaming History on Jupyter Notebook

Hello,I'm currently analyzing my extended streaming history and the data doesn't have a genre column. I'm using Python on a Jupyter Notebook/Google Colab for the analysis and the code read the JSON file as a table, as shown by the screenshot below. H...

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Hello, I'm currently analyzing my extended streaming history and the data doesn't have a genre column. I'm using Python on a Jupyter Notebook/Google Colab for the analysis and the code read the...

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Solved!! Adding Items to Playlist

We have received reports of our app users encountering an issue when trying to add items to their playlists on our platform. The issue seems to be related to an error in the track URI, as the response returned is always the following: Thanks

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We have received reports of our app users encountering an issue when trying to add items to their playlists on our platform. The issue seems to be related to an error in the track URI, as the re...

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Spotify not playing music on PC

PlanPremiumCountry USADeviceWindows PCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueFor some reason when I try to listen to music on the app on my pc it gives the "spotify cant play this right now" error but it will play podcasts. I reached out to s...

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  Plan Premium Country  USA Device Windows PC Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue For some reason when I try to listen to music on the app on my pc it gives t...

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Search endpoint is not working anymore

Simple as, search endpoint is at the moment not functional despite what is being displayed on the status page. It doesn't work on the playground/sandbox code in the docs, it doesn't work on the default example from the docs, it doesn't work using any...

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Simple as, search endpoint is at the moment not functional despite what is being displayed on the status page. It doesn't work on the playground/sandbox code in the docs, it doesn't work on the defau...

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Can the API be updated with more variables?

How easy is it to update the api with a new variable? Im requesting this below, becuase I built an app, but it would be great if I could add the "added by" field for updating a playlist. https://community.spotify.com/t5/Idea-Submissions/Add-quot-Adde...

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How easy is it to update the api with a new variable?  Im requesting this below, becuase I built an app, but it would be great if I could add the "added by" field for updating a playlist. &nbsp...

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For new feature in Spotify

My Question or Issue :Bring some such feature so that we can text our friends.on Spotify on Android,iOS in every device

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    My Question or Issue : Bring some such feature so that we can text our friends.on Spotify on Android,iOS in every device  

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Can't get access token for my app

PlanPremiumOperating System(Windows 10,etc.) My Question or IssueI'm trying to obtain an access token for my app. This is the type of cURL request I use to do it: curl -X POST "https://accounts.spotify.com/api/token" \ -H "Content-Type: application/x...

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Plan Premium Operating System (Windows 10,etc.)   My Question or Issue I'm trying to obtain an access token for my app. This is the type of cURL request I use to do it: curl -X POST "htt...

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Spotify Search API Issue - 404 not found

There currently seems to be an issue with the Search API - basic queries are suddenly and randomly returning "404 not found" errors.Sometimes the exact same query works after a few retries. The status page at https://status.spotify.dev does not yet r...

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There currently seems to be an issue with the Search API - basic queries are suddenly and randomly returning "404 not found" errors. Sometimes the exact same query works after a few retries. &nbs...

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Solved!! how long it takes spotify to approve an app

I am developing an app where user can generate playlist based on books. I have submitted my app for review on May 24, 2023. And no updates from the spotifywww.muzify.ai

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I am developing an app where user can generate playlist based on books. I have submitted my app for review on May 24, 2023. And no updates from the spotify www.muzify.ai

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Consistent 429 error after infinite loop bug

I had an infinite loop show up in my app that called spotify a ton of times. I fixed it quickly, but not my app is broken and my call (to get 'https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/playlists') is always returning a 429. What happened? How can I resolve this?

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I had an infinite loop show up in my app that called spotify a ton of times. I fixed it quickly, but not my app is broken and my call (to get 'https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/playlists') is a...

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Spotify stops on pc

PlanFree/PremiumCountryUSADeviceSamsung PCOperating SystemWindows 11, version 22H2 My Question or IssueSpotify (pc only) recently fails to respond or fails to find playlists. I have to reboot computer to get it going. Reinstalled app, no joy

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Plan Free/Premium Country USA Device Samsung PC Operating System Windows 11, version 22H2   My Question or Issue Spotify (pc only) recently fails to respond or fails to find playlists....

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Search endpoint return null owner

Today the search endpoint return playlist items with owner equal to null (screenshot).Yesterday, the owner was correct, not null.And Spotify playground on page gives correct owner right now.

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Today the search endpoint return playlist items with owner equal to null (screenshot). Yesterday, the owner was correct, not null. And Spotify playground on page gives correct owner right...

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Solved!! Global authetication for all web app users

I'm trying to implement the the spotify api in a way where the client doesn't need to have a spotify account to use my app. My apps scope would be limited to browsing data and listening to track previews which are features that are available to every...

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I'm trying to implement the the spotify api in a way where the client doesn't need to have a spotify account to use my app.   My apps scope would be limited to browsing data and listening to t...

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How do i get an access token in javascript?

I've been trying to develop a web app using the spotify api, but the documentation uses curl for api curls and I'm having a bit of trouble trying to figure out how to get an access token using javascript's fetch api. Any help will be appreciated.

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I've been trying to develop a web app using the spotify api, but the documentation uses curl for api curls and I'm having a bit of trouble trying to figure out how to get an access token using javasc...

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Not able to retrieve all user playlists from Spotipy API

PlanPremiumCountryCanadaDeviceHP LaptopOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueI am trying to scrap my playlist data using Pythons's Spotipy library but I am getting one incorrect playlist in the response. Please let me know how can I scrap my...

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Plan Premium Country Canada Device HP Laptop Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue I am trying to scrap my playlist data using Pythons's Spotipy library but I am getting o...

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Add "Added By" Variable to "Update Playlist Items"

Hey Spotify,Is it possible to add a variable, "Added By" to the body of the "Update Playlist Items" api endpoint ont he web-api?I'm trying to create a collaborative playlist so you can add specific users into that endpoint. It might be that its anoth...

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Hey Spotify, Is it possible to add a variable, "Added By" to the body of the "Update Playlist Items" api endpoint ont he web-api? I'm trying to create a collaborative playlist so you can add specif...

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Recently Played API return GATEWAY TIMEOUT ERROR

I'm working on an mobile application with Laravel backend, when I was creating APIs for mobile application I must have to get access token from SPOTIFY for that I setup Spotify web authentication to get access token. API flow with web authentication ...

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I'm working on an mobile application with Laravel backend, when I was creating APIs for mobile application I must have to get access token from SPOTIFY for that I setup Spotify web authentication to ...

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I want to analyse Spotify historical listening data

Is there any way to access anonymised global Spotify stats? There is a large upcoming public festival in France (fete de la musique) and I thought it would be interesting to look at music genre trends over the last 10 years.

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Is there any way to access anonymised global Spotify stats? There is a large upcoming public festival in France (fete de la musique) and I thought it would be interesting to look at music genre trend...

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Can't access Dev Dashboard

Hi, I'm facing the following new issue: I'm logged in into https://developer.spotify.com. If I now try to access the dashboard I have to accept new Developer Terms. But this doesn't work on any browser. I always get a popup message that an error is o...

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Hi, I'm facing the following new issue: I'm logged in into https://developer.spotify.com. If I now try to access the dashboard I have to accept new Developer Terms. But this doesn't work on any ...

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