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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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Download Metadata

Are you able download metadata like Artist Names and Song Titles to use in the creation of my app. We do not need real time access to any data, so it would be easier if we could just download, for example a large list of artist names. Thank you.

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Are you able download metadata like Artist Names and Song Titles to use in the creation of my app.  We do not need real time access to any data, so it would be easier if we could just download, ...

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How would I use the "available_markets" in every playbackstatus call?

What is the reasoning behind the field "available_markets" everytime I get a playbackstatus, or a queue?If I'm playing a track it's implicitly available on my market...Seem a lot of unnecessary traffic but maybe Im missing something:''''''"available_...

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What is the reasoning behind the field "available_markets"  everytime I get a playbackstatus, or a queue? If I'm playing  a track it's implicitly available on my market... Seem a lot...

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Both chapter endpoints return 500 server error

Both of the chapter endpoints (get a chapter and get several chapters) return 500 Server error. Since I started using the API I haven't seen them work.

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Both of the chapter endpoints (get a chapter and get several chapters) return 500 Server error. Since I started using the API I haven't seen them work.

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"Required" field can be null

The documentation for this endpoint says the response is a page of SimplifiedAudiobook. The documentation also says the "total_tracks" field is required.The requests I've made for testing return null, however. This has happened with MANY other endpoi...

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The documentation for this endpoint says the response is a page of SimplifiedAudiobook. The documentation also says the "total_tracks" field is required. The requests I've made for testing return nu...

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Endpoint inconsistency for saving albums/audibooks and HTML returned

Sending a request to the /me/albums endpoint is simple enough: set the query and it works. Doing the same for the /me/audiobooks endpoint doesn't: an error is returned, but not a JSON error, no no no! An HTML page with a title, header and formatting ...

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Sending a request to the /me/albums endpoint is simple enough: set the query and it works. Doing the same for the /me/audiobooks endpoint doesn't: an error is returned, but not a JSON error, no no no...

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Get playlist items documented limit is incorrect

This isn't so much a help thread, but I couldn't find anywhere else to post this. The docs mention that limit is max 50 yet a limit of 100 works just fine. Example in the Request Sample:{ "href": "https://api.spotify.com/v1/playlists/3cEYpjA9oz9GiPac...

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This isn't so much a help thread, but I couldn't find anywhere else to post this. The docs mention that limit is max 50 yet a limit of 100 works just fine.   Example in the Request Sample: { ...

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A legal issue with a library name

Hi, I'd like to develop an open source library containing ClojureScript bindings for Spotify Web API called "Spojure". It is an obvious combination of the name of the service and the programming language. Can using this name be considered trademark i...

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Hi,   I'd like to develop an open source library containing ClojureScript bindings for Spotify Web API called "Spojure". It is an obvious combination of the name of the service and the program...

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Extended Quota request

How long does it take for a request to be looked at? I submitted my request nearly 2 weeks ago and it still hasn't been looked at. I'm worried that if it gets denied I would have to wait another few weeks.

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How long does it take for a request to be looked at? I submitted my request nearly 2 weeks ago and it still hasn't been looked at. I'm worried that if it gets denied I would have to wait another few ...

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Api returning 500 error

Hello, everyone! I'm trying to get my recently played tracks and I'm getting a 500 error. This is my code, let me know if I'm doing something wrong. Thank you very much! fetch("https://accounts.spotify.com/api/token?grant_type=client_credentials&clie...

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Hello, everyone! I'm trying to get my recently played tracks and I'm getting a 500 error. This is my code, let me know if I'm doing something wrong. Thank you very much!       &nbs...

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PlanFree/PremiumCountryMalaysiaDevice(Pc)Operating SystemMozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/(KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/Safari/ Edg/ My Question or IssueI used the same code on(Using the iFrame API | Spotify for Developers)however t...

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  Plan Free/Premium Country Malaysia Device (Pc) Operating System Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/(KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/Safari/ Edg/   My Question or Is...

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Volume control no longer working in Web Playback SDK

This was working until very recently (within the last day or 2). Now, any time I try to set the volume of the web player using this endpoint, it returns a 403 with the following body: { "error" : { "status" : 403, "message" : "Player command failed: ...

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This was working until very recently (within the last day or 2). Now, any time I try to set the volume of the web player using this endpoint, it returns a 403 with the following body:   { "...

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"Companion App" - where expected to put "Spotify Connect Instructions"

Hello, I am representing an OEM of the custom hardware with an accompanying app (almando.com) which can stream spotify. We are told to fulfil the "Companion App" requirements. https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/commercial-hardware/implementa...

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Hello,  I am representing an OEM of the custom hardware with an accompanying app (almando.com) which can stream spotify. We are told to fulfil the "Companion App" requirements.  https:/...

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Solved!!Superuser Contribution Unable to add users on dashboard

PlanPremiumCountryUSDeviceMac My Question or IssueI am unable to add new users to my recently created app. I see no prompt or button to do so. I continue to get a 403 error whenever I try access my app from another account.

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Plan Premium Country US Device Mac   My Question or Issue I am unable to add new users to my recently created app. I see no prompt or button to do so. I continue to get a 403 error whene...

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Superuser Contribution Track Start/Pause Events with Matomo

Is there any way to get callbacks from Embed iFrame API?I would like to track with Matomo Play and Stop events from embedded Spotify iFrames.

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Is there any way to get callbacks from Embed iFrame API? I would like to track with Matomo Play and Stop events from embedded Spotify iFrames.

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Bug with offset for method "Get User's Top Artists and Tracks"

How can I get 150 items from method "Get User's Top Artists and Tracks" with 3 request? My queries found a bug with the offset value and couldn't get more than 100 items. - If set limit 50 and offset 0 - response with 50 itemshttps://api.spotify.com/...

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How can I get 150 items from method "Get User's Top Artists and Tracks" with 3 request? My queries found a bug with the offset value and couldn't get more than 100 items.   - If set limit...

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Can we remove the Loading Screen when we start the Auth flow in android kotlin (compose)

When the native App written in kotlin starts I call this method always :- private fun sendAuthRequest() { val request = AuthorizationRequest.Builder( SpotifyConstants.SPOTIFY_CLIENT_ID, AuthorizationResponse.Type.TOKEN, SpotifyConstants.SPOTIFY_REDIR...

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When the native App written in kotlin starts I call this method always :-    private fun sendAuthRequest() { val request = AuthorizationRequest.Builder( SpotifyConstants.S...

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Various Number of Results

Hello everyone,I have encountered an issue with the Spotify API and need some help. When using the API request "https://api.spotify.com/v1/artists/61qDotnjM0jnY5lkfOP7ve/albums," I receive a total of 136 albums. However, when I check in the Spotify a...

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Hello everyone, I have encountered an issue with the Spotify API and need some help. When using the API request "https://api.spotify.com/v1/artists/61qDotnjM0jnY5lkfOP7ve/albums," I receive a total ...

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Design Changes

PlanFree/PremiumCountry Device(iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016)Operating System(iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.) My Question or Issue I need to make some design changes to our website . How do I go about doing this? Cannot fin...

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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  I...

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500 internal server error

i got a token by making a post request using the client credentials and{ 'grant_type':'client_credentials','scope': 'user-read-recently-played'} in header. as data for that post request. But when i use this token to get recently played tracks- https:...

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i got a token by making a post request using the client credentials and { 'grant_type':'client_credentials', 'scope': 'user-read-recently-played'} in header. as data for that post request.   ...

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Can we use playlist info as a prompt for a GPT model

In the developer policy it's stated that: "Do not use the Spotify Platform or any Spotify Content to train a machine learning or AI model or otherwise ingest Spotify Content into a machine learning or AI model." I understand that we can't train an AI...

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In the developer policy it's stated that:  "Do not use the Spotify Platform or any Spotify Content to train a machine learning or AI model or otherwise ingest Spotify Content into a machine lea...

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