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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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me/episodes is full of null episodes

Whenever a playlist is removed from a feed, the 'stub' is left behind in me/episodes, causing significant bloat overtime of completely broken and performance hindered feeds. My last query for my episodes has most of the episodes now as null. I still ...

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Whenever a playlist is removed from a feed, the 'stub' is left behind in me/episodes, causing significant bloat overtime of completely broken and performance hindered feeds.   My last query fo...

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Error 429, leading to Disabled and Blocked app

Hi guys, I have been working on a web app that basically creates a playlist for a users. Recently my app has been blocked, I believe the issue stems from making too many API request in a short period of time and not handling the retries correctly. I ...

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Hi guys, I have been working on a web app that basically creates a playlist for a users. Recently my app has been blocked, I believe the issue stems from making too many API request in a short period...

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Persistent 429 (due to 502s) on playlist_add_items due to audiobook "chapter" type

PlanPremiumCountryFranceDeviceDesktopOperating SystemWindows 11 Hi fellow developers and Spotify API team,I wanted to share a challenging issue I recently debugged with the Spotify Web API, hoping it might help others and provide some feedback. DISCL...

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Plan Premium Country France Device Desktop Operating System Windows 11   Hi fellow developers and Spotify API team, I wanted to share a challenging issue I recently debugged with the S...

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Seeking Guidance on Commercial Use of Spotify Web API for Voice-Controlled App

Hello, I have developed a voice-controlled application that utilizes the Spotify Web API to allow users to control playback through voice commands. I am interested in understanding the possibilities and requirements for distributing or monetizing thi...

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Hello,   I have developed a voice-controlled application that utilizes the Spotify Web API to allow users to control playback through voice commands. I am interested in understanding the possi...

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Commercial license request
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Superuser Contribution INVALID_CLIENT: Insecure redirect URI

Hello everyone,I'm new to the Spotify API and I'm currently trying to complete the OAuth authorization flow for my web application. After being redirected to the Spotify login page, I log in, but instead of getting redirected to my app's callback URL...

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Hello everyone, I'm new to the Spotify API and I'm currently trying to complete the OAuth authorization flow for my web application. After being redirected to the Spotify login page, I log in, but i...

LambertSpot

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403 Error from /v1/audio-features on All Requests

I'm building a Spotify app using the Web API. I can authenticate, access my profile, and fetch playlists successfully. However, all requests to /v1/audio-features return a 403 Forbidden — even for valid, known track IDs (e.g., Eminem’s “Lose Yourself...

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I'm building a Spotify app using the Web API. I can authenticate, access my profile, and fetch playlists successfully. However, all requests to /v1/audio-features return a 403 Forbidden — even for va...

Ximzend

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Audio Features
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Playlist filter

PlanFree/PremiumCountrySri lankaDevice(iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016)Operating System(iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.) My Question or IssueThis is recommendation. Can you add filter for play list that can be filter songs dep...

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Plan Free/Premium Country Sri lanka Device (iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016) Operating System (iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.)   My Question or Issue This...

ribezaz

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MusicRecommendations
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Spotify api returning incorrect us aer access token after apple login

PlanFree/PremiumCountryCanadaDeviceiphone 16, M3 proOperating SystemIOS, MacOS My Question or Issue Hi everyone,I’m running into a strange issue with Spotify OAuth in my Next.js app. The flow works perfectly when logging into Spotify with a regular u...

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Plan Free/Premium Country Canada Device iphone 16, M3 pro Operating System IOS, MacOS   My Question or Issue   Hi everyone, I’m running into a strange issue with Spotify OAuth i...

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API Access
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Spotify OAuth Scope Parameter Not Included In Authorisation URL

Hi everyone,I’m working on integrating Spotify OAuth login into my React app. I want to request multiple scopes including user-read-email, user-read-private, and user-follow-read. However, when I build the authorization URL and redirect the user to S...

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Hi everyone, I’m working on integrating Spotify OAuth login into my React app. I want to request multiple scopes including user-read-email, user-read-private, and user-follow-read. However, when I b...

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metrics return "<5" instead of the actual number

Hello, we are using the https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/ads-api/reference/v3.0/createAsyncReport endpoint to retrieve information from the user account, and sometimes when retrieving metrics instead of obtaining an actual number, the API ...

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Hello,   we are using the https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/ads-api/reference/v3.0/createAsyncReport endpoint to retrieve information from the user account, and sometimes when retrie...

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Spotify Access without register user

Currently, I have created app in spotify developer account and added myself as userand I am able to fetch the data. Now in production I dont want to regester every user to fetch the data. Currently If I not add the user in the app of spotify , its th...

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Currently, I have created app in spotify developer account and added myself as userand I am able to fetch the data. Now in production I dont want to regester every user to fetch the data. Currently I...

Ximzend

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SongFetch

Greetings, I have an app built that allows users of SongFetch, to search Spotify using their Spotify credentials and to voice search song titles and/or artists at Spotify then plays on their available media player. It is in development mode at Spotif...

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Greetings,  I have an app built that allows users of SongFetch, to search Spotify using their Spotify credentials and to voice search song titles and/or artists at Spotify then plays on their a...

SongFetch

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How to Logout? Is it possible?

I’m working on an application using the Spotify API, and I’ve encountered an issue when trying to switch between different user accounts during the OAuth login process.Here’s the scenario:I successfully logged into Account A, went through the OAuth f...

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I’m working on an application using the Spotify API, and I’ve encountered an issue when trying to switch between different user accounts during the OAuth login process. Here’s the scenario: I suc...

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App status changed to Disabled and blocked

PlanPremium My Question or IssueHi, my app was working fine, but suddenly started to get 429 to all API requests, and the app status is "Disabled and blocked". No emails were sent as a warning or notification of that change. Would you please advise m...

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Plan Premium   My Question or Issue Hi, my app was working fine, but suddenly started to get 429 to all API requests, and the app status is "Disabled and blocked". No emails were sent as a w...

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Development of an independent app on Windows 11

I've noticed that Spotify runs a Microsoft Edge window on Windows 11, instead of using a Spotify's proprietary app. It would be cool if you develop an independent app for Windows 11, an .exe installer file that I could download, like a media player, ...

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I've noticed that Spotify runs a Microsoft Edge window on Windows 11, instead of using a Spotify's proprietary app. It would be cool if you develop an independent app for Windows 11, an .exe installe...

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Issue with Save Tracks for Current User

There is an issue with endpoint Save Tracks for Current User. Let's add 5 tracks by request: A, B, C, D, E. The result will be in any order, but not in the order of the request. It could be B, C, E, A, D or C, A, B, D, E - it doesn't matter what the ...

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There is an issue with endpoint Save Tracks for Current User.   Let's add 5 tracks by request: A, B, C, D, E. The result will be in any order, but not in the order of the request. It could be ...

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Solved!! How can I get the BPM of the current playing song?

Im trying to make a game that uses spotify as a backend feature but for that I somehow need to eb able to get the BPM of the current song playing. I already got the current song playing printing finished but I have no clue how to get the bpm because ...

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Im trying to make a game that uses spotify as a backend feature but for that I somehow need to eb able to get the BPM of the current song playing. I already got the current song playing printing fini...

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Consistent 404 from /v1/recommendations despite valid requests, tokens, and seeds

PlanPremiumCountry Device(Macbook Pro 2021)Operating System(MacOS Sequoia 15.3) My Question or IssueHi Spotify Dev Team and Community,I'm currently working on a music discovery project using the Spotify Web API and have run into a persistent issue wi...

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Plan Premium Country   Device (Macbook Pro 2021) Operating System (MacOS Sequoia 15.3)   My Question or Issue Hi Spotify Dev Team and Community, I'm currently working on a music ...

Ximzend

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API access on premium accounts

Im developing and Spotify app that shows the user current song playing and the top artists, this use of the API requires the users account to be premium, my account and tow other of some colleagues are premium. The issue is that when i try to request...

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Im developing and Spotify app that shows the user current song playing and the top artists, this use of the API requires the users account to be premium, my account and tow other of some colleagues a...

Ximzend

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An error occurred while processing the Spotify callback.

PlanFreeMy Question or IssueI am able to redirect to spotify after clicking allow, I am getting {"message":"An error occurred while processing the Spotify callback.","success":false,"error":{"code":"ERR_NON_2XX_3XX_RESPONSE","timings":{"start":174797...

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Plan Free My Question or Issue I am able to redirect to spotify after clicking allow, I am getting  {"message":"An error occurred while processing the Spotify callback.","success":false,"e...

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