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Discuss building apps with Spotify APIs and SDKs
Hey everyone, I've created this thread to share some updates to how quotas work for Development Mode apps on the Spotify Web API to help you better organize your projects. We've shared a Blog post that explains everything in detail. Here's the short ...
Hey everyone, I've created this thread to provide more insight on an upcoming change to how refresh tokens work for apps on the Spotify Web API. We've shared a blog post that explains what's changing and why. The short version: refresh tokens will no...
I have developer "apps" that already have the quota extension that need additional OAuth scopes. I cannot find any way to request these. do I need to create an entirely new "app"?
I have developer "apps" that already have the quota extension that need additional OAuth scopes. I cannot find any way to request these. do I need to create an entirely new "app"?
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Hi, I'm making a small mobile app as a gift to a friend. The concept is: he enters some songs, it returns all playlists containing all of those songs. My plan was:- get all playlists for the least popular song (according to Spotify's Popularity field...
Hi, I'm making a small mobile app as a gift to a friend. The concept is: he enters some songs, it returns all playlists containing all of those songs. My plan was: - get all playli...
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PlanFreeCountryIndia Device(Dell Inspiron)Operating System(Windows 11) My Question or IssueI am currently implementing an authorization flow with PKCE, and I have encountered an issue. When making an API request to the `Start/Resume Playback` endpoin...
Plan Free Country India Device (Dell Inspiron) Operating System (Windows 11) My Question or Issue I am currently implementing an authorization flow with PKCE, and I hav...
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Subject Line: Query About Modifying Spotify Embed Player's Transparency and HeightPlan: PremiumCountry: United StatesDevice: Macbook Pro 2022 M2Operating System: macOS (specify your macOS version) I would like to know if it's permissible to modify th...
Subject Line: Query About Modifying Spotify Embed Player's Transparency and Height Plan: Premium Country: United States Device: Macbook Pro 2022 M2 Operating System: macOS (specify your macOS v...
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hi! i wanted to submit a quota extension request for my spotify application., but i'm kinda stumped on this "free demo/test account" thing. the main functionality of my application is that it generates recommendations based on your music listening ha...
hi! i wanted to submit a quota extension request for my spotify application., but i'm kinda stumped on this "free demo/test account" thing. the main functionality of my application is that i...
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I have an old app I created in 2019 and tried to submit a request for commercial license for using the playback API. Weeks gone by, no reply from Spotify, so I scraped the idea of playback API integration and monetize my app without it. I did not che...
I have an old app I created in 2019 and tried to submit a request for commercial license for using the playback API. Weeks gone by, no reply from Spotify, so I scraped the idea of playback API integr...
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PlanPremiumCountryFranceDevicePCOperating SystemWindows 11 My Question or IssueI can't download Spotify on my PC, I have Windows 11, and when i try to download it, it says " Unable to download spotify" and then it give me error 52 and error 4. Can so...
Plan Premium Country France Device PC Operating System Windows 11 My Question or Issue I can't download Spotify on my PC, I have Windows 11, and when i try to download it, it...
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PlanPremiumCountryUnited StatesDeviceMacbook ProOperating SystemiOS 10 My Question or IssueI have built out a web app running on localhost that works great and am trying to get it deployed. When swapping my environment variables for the redirect uri ...
Plan Premium Country United States Device Macbook Pro Operating System iOS 10 My Question or Issue I have built out a web app running on localhost that works great and am trying to g...
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Even if in the documentation is explicitly mentioned that "If a valid user access token is specified in the request header, the country associated with the user account will take priority over this parameter" (see https://developer.spotify.com/docume...
Even if in the documentation is explicitly mentioned that "If a valid user access token is specified in the request header, the country associated with the user account will take priority over this p...
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PlanFamilyCountryGermany Operating SystemWindows 11Server: Debian 12 (Apache2) Hello,i have a problem. I want to get the lyrics from the API "spclient.wg.spotify.com". But the Problem is: Sometimes it works, sometimes it dont. Sometimes I just get ju...
Plan Family Country Germany Operating System Windows 11 Server: Debian 12 (Apache2) Hello, i have a problem. I want to get the lyrics from the API "spclient.wg.spotify.com". B...
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Hi I m zack face issue on set up Profile React Anyone help me?
Hi I m zack face issue on set up Profile React Anyone help me?
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Hello fellow Spotify developers and music enthusiasts!Today, I'd like to propose an innovative idea that could significantly enhance our user experience on Spotify: the introduction of a "Uniqueness Score." This feature would analyze a user's listeni...
Hello fellow Spotify developers and music enthusiasts! Today, I'd like to propose an innovative idea that could significantly enhance our user experience on Spotify: the introduction of a "Uniquen...
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As the title suggests, the Recently Played Tracks endpoint has suddenly stopped returning any results. Trying from the Sporify Dev console also returns the same results. Has anyone else experienced this?
As the title suggests, the Recently Played Tracks endpoint has suddenly stopped returning any results. Trying from the Sporify Dev console also returns the same results. H...
Music Fan
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My Question or IssueI press the verify button at https://developer.spotify.com/dashboard, but I don't get an email.The other emails seem to be working, so it's probably an issue with the `.dev` email, as I've had the same issue a few times on other s...
My Question or Issue I press the verify button at https://developer.spotify.com/dashboard, but I don't get an email. The other emails seem to be working, so it's probably an issue with the `.dev` e...
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PlanPremiumCountry : France Device: HP desktop (dragonfly)Operating System: Windows 10 My Question or Issue: CTRL + A is not working any more on the windows app! How to get this corrected?The help section (ctrl + /) indicates it should still be avail...
Plan Premium Country : France Device: HP desktop (dragonfly) Operating System: Windows 10 My Question or Issue: CTRL + A is not working any more on the windows app! How...
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Is there a way to pull listening data from a geographic location (say a 5 mile area)? Or would one have to accumulate listening data over time and link it to an end-users location (with permission of course)?
Is there a way to pull listening data from a geographic location (say a 5 mile area)? Or would one have to accumulate listening data over time and link it to an end-users location (with permission of...
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Hi, I'm trying to do a GET request on /me/top/tracks but I get a 500 internal server error.I first do a POST request for a bearer token:curl --location --request POST 'https://accounts.spotify.com/api/token?grant_type=client_credentials&scope=user-to...
Hi, I'm trying to do a GET request on /me/top/tracks but I get a 500 internal server error. I first do a POST request for a bearer token: curl --location --request POST 'https://accounts.s...
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DeviceMac pro max m1 2022 My Question or IssueWe have different playlists that include only label releases. We run ads for those, so we want to know how many streams it's gathering daily, so we can cross data to know how effective they are. Today wha...
Device Mac pro max m1 2022 My Question or Issue We have different playlists that include only label releases. We run ads for those, so we want to know how many streams it's gathering daily...
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The challenge: I would like to automate following artists for whom I have an variable threshold of tracks liked (in my liked songs). Or rather, I would like to search my liked songs and match artists that I've liked more than say 5 times and give tho...
The challenge: I would like to automate following artists for whom I have an variable threshold of tracks liked (in my liked songs). Or rather, I would like to search my liked songs and matc...
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The search endpoint is returning different responses based on the bearer token given. When I use the bearer token generated by the web API documentation interface at https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/search - I get results...
The search endpoint is returning different responses based on the bearer token given. When I use the bearer token generated by the web API documentation interface at https://developer.spotify.co...
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