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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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DJSHARON

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Birthday Special

I have been a member of Spotify for years.I had an idea for the creators of Spotify.Not sure if this is the right place to post this.We all are aware that Spotify Premium gives you the best advances, like no ads and the freedom to play any song at th...

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I have been a member of Spotify for years. I had an idea for the creators of Spotify. Not sure if this is the right place to post this. We all are aware that Spotify Premium gives you the best adv...

katiebugsy99

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No popularity field on Album search

I am hitting this endpoint: https://api.spotify.com/v1/search?q=Beatles&type=album,artist,trackI am expecting the response to contain albums, tracks, and artists that are found given the specified query. From that response, I am gathering a list of r...

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I am hitting this endpoint: https://api.spotify.com/v1/search?q=Beatles&type=album,artist,track I am expecting the response to contain albums, tracks, and artists that are found given the spec...

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Can I Create App To Alter The Original Song

Hi, I know we can create apps to do things, but I wonder if I can create an app that can stream the songs but with some change I made to the sound, like an app that makes my spotify songs with different effects I pick from. The original song goes thr...

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Hi,   I know we can create apps to do things, but I wonder if I can create an app that can stream the songs but with some change I made to the sound, like an app that makes my spotify songs wi...

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403 Insufficient Client Scope

Hi All,Im building a custom connector with Power Apps / power Automate, so i can recall the spotify api. The api works well when i have to get a playlist or search for a song, but when it comes to add a song to playlist i always get the error 403 - i...

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Hi All, Im building a custom connector with Power Apps / power Automate, so i can recall the spotify api. The api works well when i have to get a playlist or search for a song, but when it comes to ...

Ximzend

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Join saved tracks / audio features with Track response object

I've written an app with the Spotify API and with each track I display its audio features and whether or not it is a saved track. It would be nice if this data could be optionally combined with the Track response object. I imagine the option to join ...

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I've written an app with the Spotify API and with each track I display its audio features and whether or not it is a saved track. It would be nice if this data could be optionally combined with the T...

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Spotify API/Vercel Serverless Function/Flask - Auth Issues

Currently developing a website that lets you duplicate your playlists. However, when users log in, the playlist is automatically created on my account, and not the user account. I have tried to change more than 10 things, documentation, and more but ...

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Currently developing a website that lets you duplicate your playlists.    However, when users log in, the playlist is automatically created on my account, and not the user account.  ...

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Fetching track canvas

I recently came across this github repo that shows how to fetch a track's canvas, is this allowed or is it against the Developer Guidelines https://github.com/bartleyg/my-spotify-canvas/blob/master/api/canvases.js

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I recently came across this github repo that shows how to fetch a track's canvas, is this allowed or is it against the Developer Guidelines   https://github.com/bartleyg/my-spotify-canvas/blob...

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OAuth completely broken in Firefox

As the subject says, OAuth is totally broken in Firefox on Windows. This happens for the Community login, the Dev Dashboard, and PKCE flows that pop up a user login window. I'm not sure whether it's relevant, but the F12 browser dev console is full o...

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As the subject says, OAuth is totally broken in Firefox on Windows. This happens for the Community login, the Dev Dashboard, and PKCE flows that pop up a user login window.   I'm not sure whet...

zcorpan

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Solved!! Needs to Fix/Add/Re-approve Scopes

I am having an issue with several users that they are not able to successfully achieve their desired action. Here is the error that appears in my logs:HTTP Error for POST to https://api.spotify.com/v1/users/xxx(user_name)/playlists with Params: {} re...

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I am having an issue with several users that they are not able to successfully achieve their desired action.   Here is the error that appears in my logs: HTTP Error for POST to https://api.sp...

mashmia

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Connect SpotifyAppRemote when offline

PlanPremiumCountrySwitzerlandDevice(HTC U11, Samsung Galaxy S10e)Operating System(Android 9 / 12)VersionsSpotifyAppRemote: 0.7.2Spotify: 8.7.28.1217 My Question or IssueHi,I wonder if it is possible to establish the connection with SpotifyAppRemote t...

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Plan Premium Country Switzerland Device (HTC U11, Samsung Galaxy S10e) Operating System (Android 9 / 12) Versions SpotifyAppRemote: 0.7.2 Spotify: 8.7.28.1217   My Question or Issue ...

nicholaschum

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Artist albums endpoint ignores market parameter

I've been using the Artist Albums endpoint for a long time but it is now returning duplicates as it is ignoring the "market" parameter.eg https://api.spotify.com/v1/artists/5GxyeQagayzZOg4UwffQlD/albums?offset=0&limit=10&include_groups=album&market=G...

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I've been using the Artist Albums endpoint for a long time but it is now returning duplicates as it is ignoring the "market" parameter. eg https://api.spotify.com/v1/artists/5GxyeQagayzZOg4Uwff...

pawllo01

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Get Item's Market param not working

Get Item contains requests like "Get Playlist Items", "Get User's Saved Tracks", etc.When I send a "Get Playlist Items" request with Market "from_token", the "restriction" part is returned as expected. For example, when I change the Market to US or s...

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Get Item contains requests like "Get Playlist Items", "Get User's Saved Tracks", etc. When I send a "Get Playlist Items" request with Market "from_token", the "restriction" part is returned as ...

pawllo01

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Spotify Web API returns an error

Hi!We are using Spotify Web SDK in our system, with the intention of playing the music within our web application. The player itself is opened in a different browser tab, and we need to control it through the API. We create a playback device in the b...

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Hi! We are using Spotify Web SDK in our system, with the intention of playing the music within our web application. The player itself is opened in a different browser tab, and we need to control it ...

JaimeMytaverse

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Authorization issue w/ iOS

PlanFree/PremiumCountryUnited StatesDevice(iPhone/Android) We recently just published our application to the Google Play store, however, ran into an issue with publishing it to the App Store with our iOS version. The issue seems to be with the Client...

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Plan Free/Premium Country United States Device (iPhone/Android)   We recently just published our application to the Google Play store, however, ran into an issue with publishing it to the...

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Getting Artist Cover Art

My Question or IssueUsing the Spotify REST API, I was wondering if anyone had found a possible way to grab the large cover art the appears on an artists profile - this is different from their profile picture. It doesn't seem to be contained in the ar...

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My Question or Issue Using the Spotify REST API, I was wondering if anyone had found a possible way to grab the large cover art the appears on an artists profile - this is different from their profi...

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How would I go about making a now playing using the API?

Sorry for this kinda beginner question, but for my personal website I thought it would be a cool feature if I could add a part where it would show what song I am currently listening to for people to see. I thought the Spotify API could work for this,...

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Sorry for this kinda beginner question, but for my personal website I thought it would be a cool feature if I could add a part where it would show what song I am currently listening to for people to ...

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i can't login to my account in spotify for developer

PlanFreeCountryMoroccoOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issuei cant login to my account, it keeps redirect me to same pagepoc: https://imgur.com/a/yF9kKaY

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Plan Free Country Morocco Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue i cant login to my account, it keeps redirect me to same page poc: https://imgur.com/a/yF9kKaY 

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Ticketmaster integration allowed?

Hey! I was wondering (since in the guidelines is stated that no content from other services could be presented along with Spotify content) if it is allowed to use the ticketmaster API along with the Spotify one. Thanks in advance!

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Hey!   I was wondering (since in the guidelines is stated that no content from other services could be presented along with Spotify content) if it is allowed to use the ticketmaster API along ...

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Get the played time of a song

Hi, is there a way to get the heard duration of a song? At the moment, only the complete song duration is returned by the api. It would be very nice to be able to see if a song was listened 30 seconds, 2 minutes or the whole song. If I have missed so...

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Hi,    is there a way to get the heard duration of a song? At the moment, only the complete song duration is returned by the api.  It would be very nice to be able to see if a son...

hon-za

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Follow Playlist requires too much scope?

If I checked it correctly, currently `Follow Playlist` API requires BOTH `playlist-modify-public` and `playlist-modify-private` regardless of the request's "public" field. But I think it should require only one of those two scopes corresponding to th...

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If I checked it correctly, currently `Follow Playlist` API requires BOTH `playlist-modify-public` and `playlist-modify-private` regardless of the request's "public" field. But I think it should requi...

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