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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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Spotify API with Ionic app

Hi, I was thinking to make a ionic app, the idea is using a form, the people enter a name of songs and using a query to spotify api get all the data of this song, can i make it? Thanks!

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  • Hi,   I was thinking to make a ionic app, the idea is using a form, the people enter a name of songs and using a query to spotify api get all the data of this song, can i make it?   Tha...
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Web Playback API - synchronizing User streams

Is it possible to stream a Spotify Playlist in a live room (host/guest format), where the host puts together a playlist and syncs the song currently playing across all Users in the room. Would this be possible if all Users in the room were logged int...

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  • Is it possible to stream a Spotify Playlist in a live room (host/guest format), where the host puts together a playlist and syncs the song currently playing across all Users in the room. Would this b...
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Solved!!Superuser Contribution v1/me/player/currently-playing returning 403

Plan - PremiumCountry - USOperating System - Mac OS My Question or Issue: When attempting to deploy my code, I keep receiving anHTTP Error for GET to https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/player/currently-playing message. I've searched around the internet an...

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  • Plan - Premium Country - US Operating System - Mac OS   My Question or Issue:   When attempting to deploy my code, I keep receiving an HTTP Error for GET to https://ap...
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Possible to get some Help or not. Need Help API code or something to embed Spotify page to your webs

PlanFree/PremiumCountry Device(iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016)Operating System(iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.) My Question or IssueNeed Help API code or something to embed Spotify page to your website and Spotify Code

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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 Need He...
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Bug in Check if Users Follow a Playlist endpoint

I'm getting inconsistent results when trying to check if a user follows a (public) playlist via the /v1/playlists/{playlist_id}/followers/contains endpoint. If I follow the playlist via the Spotify apps:making the request using my app's access token ...

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  • I'm getting inconsistent results when trying to check if a user follows a (public) playlist via the /v1/playlists/{playlist_id}/followers/contains endpoint.   If I follow the playlist v...
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me/player/recently-played -- not updating?

I'm noticing that the response from GET https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/player/recently-played does not reflect recent listening. In the response the most recent track was played at 2021-07-10T14:33:04.939Z and the account has been listening to music a...

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  • I'm noticing that the response from GET https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/player/recently-played does not reflect recent listening. In the response the most recent track was played at 2021-07-10T14:33:04...
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Superuser Contribution Web Playback SDK works locally but not on web server

I'm trying to test the web playback SDK with a slightly modified version of the Quickstart tutorial. I'm using Safari (I know this was not originally supported, but Safari added EME support about 15 months ago in version 13.1.) https://developer.mozi...

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  • I'm trying to test the web playback SDK with a slightly modified version of the Quickstart tutorial.   I'm using Safari (I know this was not originally supported, but Safari added EME support ...
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Follow button

I'm using the Spotify follow button (it's an iFrame element) in a simple website. When a user clicks the link, their default browser opens and they're prompted to login. However if I you go directly to the url specified in as an attribute in the iFra...

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  • I'm using the Spotify follow button (it's an iFrame element)  in a simple website.  When a user clicks the link, their default browser opens and they're prompted to login.  However if ...
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Superuser Contribution Web Playback SDK should work on iOS 13.4+ but it does not

I'm aware that when it was released, the Web Playback SDK did not support Safari on the desktop or mobile devices due to the lack of support for Encrypted Media Extensions and/or Widevine for DRM. However, as you can see on the Mozilla developer page...

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  • ...ome apps like Noon Pacific have figured it out but I can't find anything publicly documenting how to do this.
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Superuser Contribution Response code Forbidden

PlanPremiumCountryBelgiumDeviceWindows desktopOperating SystemWindows 10 We integrated the Spotify Web API into our system. For approx 2 months everything was working fine until last week.I see a lot of errors on the calls we do. E.g Get user's avail...

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  • Plan Premium Country Belgium Device Windows desktop Operating System Windows 10   We integrated the Spotify Web API into our system. For approx 2 months everything was working fine unti...
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An API for the next track / queued tracks

My Question or IssueWhilst you can fetch user's playback history, you can't fetch the user's playback queue, from what I've been able to find.It would be super helpful to be able to query what the upcoming track is, or even the next few tracks. Spoti...

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  • My Question or Issue Whilst you can fetch user's playback history, you can't fetch the user's playback queue, from what I've been able to find. It would be super helpful to be able to query what th...
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Idea validation

Hi, I am working on creating an internal only (for the people of the company I work for) app. The idea is to have everyone who wants to participate auth once (via oauth). Then I will have a daily job that runs to tabulate the most popular steams by e...

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  • Hi, I am working on creating an internal only (for the people of the company I work for) app. The idea is to have everyone who wants to participate auth once (via oauth). Then I will have a daily job...
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[Desktop][Developer] Hide mouse/curser in full screen video mode

It would be great if the curser would hide automatically in full screen Video mode. When watching a video in full screen, the curser is always there – For me and some others, this is somewhat distracting. Most other video player are hiding the curser...

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  • It would be great if the curser would hide automatically in full screen Video mode.    When watching a video in full screen, the curser is always there – For me and some others, this...
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Error 429, how can I avoid rate limiting?

I have built a script that polls the user's current song around 1-3 times per minute (totaling ~4 times per song), since I am using this information elsewhere. I have reduced this as much as I can in order to avoid rate limiting, however, this is the...

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  • I have built a script that polls the user's current song around 1-3 times per minute (totaling ~4 times per song), since I am using this information elsewhere. I have reduced this as much as I can in...
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Spotify API (My user data)

Hello, I'm developing a personal website/developer profile and I'd like to display some user data from my own profile. Specifically, I'd like to display my all-time most listened to tracks and artists. Is there a way to display this information on my...

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  • Hello,   I'm developing a personal website/developer profile and I'd like to display some user data from my own profile. Specifically, I'd like to display my all-time most listened to tracks a...
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Superuser Contribution Getting 403 Error while Calling Web SDK APIs (Devices,Play,Pause etc) without information

Plan PremiumCountry IndiaDevice Macbook 16 inch + ChromeOperating System 11.3.1 (20E241) I have created an app in my account when I am login from the same account through Spotify logic is working fine. But when I trying from another "PREMIUM" account...

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  • Plan Premium Country India Device Macbook 16 inch + Chrome Operating System 11.3.1 (20E241)   I have created an app in my account when I am login from the same account t...
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Number of streams endpoint

My Question or Issue Hi thereI have been trying to integrate the number of streams of multiple songs( with country as a filter) into a system that generates a comparative list in the form of a chart that integrates a number of other variables too. Ho...

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  • My Question or Issue   Hi there I have been trying to integrate the number of streams of multiple songs( with country as a filter) into a system that generates a comparative list in the form ...
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Spotify recently played web api

I'm trying to get my most recent songs to display on my website and can't wrap my head around it. Has anyone figured this out? From what I've found it requires a user to login with tokens expiring after 1 hour. I'm using Vue (or specifically Nuxt) if...

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  • I'm trying to get my most recent songs to display on my website and can't wrap my head around it. Has anyone figured this out?   From what I've found it requires a user to login with tokens ex...
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Software architecture of Spotify

My Question or IssueI am doing a research project for university with the topic "software architecture of Spotify", since I am not developer myself I have big issues with describing the architecture (Microservices). Is there any picture or something ...

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  • My Question or Issue I am doing a research project for university with the topic "software architecture of Spotify", since I am not developer myself I have big issues with describing the architectur...
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