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February 2026 Spotify for Developers update: thread

Hey everyone, I’ve created this thread to provide an open space for discussion, feedback, concerns or ideas on an upcoming update to Spotify for Developers access. We’ve shared a blog post that explains what’s changing and why. Please use this thread...

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Weird Spotify POST 500 Playback Error

I'm using Electron and WideVine to play with the Spotify Web Playback API and everything works fine, I start a song but then it plays only for about three seconds and then skips to the next track and so on. I get this Error about three times:POST htt...

Music Fan

I'm using Electron and WideVine to play with the Spotify Web Playback API and everything works fine, I start a song but then it plays only for about three seconds and then skips to the next track and...

Koteyk0o

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How do I know that my app token has been rate limited?

Plan: PremiumCountry: USDevice: Macbook Pro M2 Max Hello Everyone, I'm running some code using the spotipy package in python and was wondering how I could get the request_header that says what kind of error I may be receiving. When I run my code, it ...

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Plan: Premium Country: US Device: Macbook Pro M2 Max   Hello Everyone,  I'm running some code using the spotipy package in python and was wondering how I could get the request_header t...

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API Help
API Key
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Podcast player embed iframe behavior

PlanFreeCountryUSADeviceMacBook Pro M1, iPhone 11 Pro, iPadOperating SystemMacOS, iOSMy Question or Issueive embedded the Spotify player iframe into a Beaver Builder based Wordpress page. Works fine on desktop, but on iOS, when scrolling down to div ...

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Plan Free Country USA Device MacBook Pro M1, iPhone 11 Pro, iPad Operating System MacOS, iOS My Question or Issue ive embedded the Spotify player iframe into a Beaver Builder based Wordpress...

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Scopes ignored at the "Authorize" endpoint

I'm trying to connect my app to Spotify using Web API. When I do a GET request to Autohrize endpoint, I get redirected to login screen of Spotify.Code (dart) at "code_screenshot.png". Then, I put my mail and my pass (in the "login_screen.jpg"), but w...

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I'm trying to connect my app to Spotify using Web API. When I do a GET request to Autohrize endpoint, I get redirected to login screen of Spotify. Code (dart) at "code_screenshot.png".   ...

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Is there a way to retrieve the audio stream of a tune in order to play it on a bot discord?

PlanPremiumCountryFranceMy Question or IssueI'm in the process of creating a bot discord that would be linked to a Spotify premium account so that it could play music that comes from Spotify, but after going through the documentation, I couldn't find...

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Plan Premium Country France My Question or Issue I'm in the process of creating a bot discord that would be linked to a Spotify premium account so that it could play music that comes from Sp...

Ximzend

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Is making a visualizer allowed with the Spotify API?

I have read the Compliance Tips and I'm still not sure whether making a visualizer to go along with a Spotify music player is a supported use case. I would be generating the visuals with code according to song data from the Web API. No other copyrigh...

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I have read the Compliance Tips and I'm still not sure whether making a visualizer to go along with a Spotify music player is a supported use case. I would be generating the visuals with code accordi...

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Spotify API Inquiry

I am curious to start a personal project with Spotify. I have read the API documentation, but I wasn't able to find this specific API request type anywhere. Is it possible for the API to retrieve the #minutes a user has listened to a track/artist in ...

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I am curious to start a personal project with Spotify. I have read the API documentation, but I wasn't able to find this specific API request type anywhere. Is it possible for the API to retrieve the...

Ximzend

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Feature Request
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Documentation incorrect about GET /me/player/currently-playing?

The API documentation for these endpointshttps://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/get-information-about-the-users-current-playbackhttps://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/get-the-users-currently-playing-track...

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The API documentation for these endpoints https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/get-information-about-the-users-current-playback https://developer.spotify.com/documentation...

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Can't access API anymore, did I exceed limits?

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 Hi folks, I was starting to make a music search app and was able to keep querying the API fo...

Music Fan

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   ...

axion777

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api calls no longer working
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The player API returns HTTP response 202 instead of 204

The documentation about the play / pause functionality of the Web Player API (https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/pause-a-users-playback) lists 204 as the expected response to a successful request, but instead the API return...

Music Fan

  The documentation about the play / pause functionality of the Web Player API (https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/pause-a-users-playback) lists 204 as the expected r...

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SDA app status "blocked and disabled" randomly

PlanFree/PremiumCountryUSDeviceWeb BrowserOperating SystemWindows 10, MacOS, etc. My Question or IssueI am currently developing a web app, mostly for the purpose of playlist generation. I was going through the steps of complying with the Developer Po...

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Plan Free/Premium Country US Device Web Browser Operating System Windows 10, MacOS, etc.   My Question or Issue I am currently developing a web app, mostly for the purpose of playlist ...

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Documentation error on get-users-saved-tracks

Hello, There is a minor error in the API documentation of the `get-users-saved-tracks`:All examples are using the `v1/me/shows` API endpoint instead of `v1/me/tracks`.Not a roadblock. Just so it can be fixed. Have a nice day.

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Hello,   There is a minor error in the API documentation of the `get-users-saved-tracks`: All examples are using the `v1/me/shows` API endpoint instead of `v1/me/tracks`. Not a roadblock. ...

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can't accept ToS

PlanPremium My Question or Issuecan't accept ToS PUT https://api.spotify.com/webapi-provisioning/user-developer-info 502

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Plan Premium     My Question or Issue can't accept ToS   PUT https://api.spotify.com/webapi-provisioning/user-developer-info 502  

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Can't access Dev Dashboard

Hi, I'm facing the following new issue: I'm logged in into https://developer.spotify.com. If I now try to access the dashboard I have to accept new Developer Terms. But this doesn't work on any browser. I always get a popup message that an error is o...

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Hi, I'm facing the following new issue: I'm logged in into https://developer.spotify.com. If I now try to access the dashboard I have to accept new Developer Terms. But this doesn't work on any ...

max1061

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Start/Resume Playback API "uris" Question

Hello I am trying to use the Start/Resume playback endpoint to play a selection of tracks for the user in a certain order. However, I noticed that when I insert a JSON array of the track uris that I want to play, the order of the array is not preserv...

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Hello I am trying to use the Start/Resume playback endpoint to play a selection of tracks for the user in a certain order. However, I noticed that when I insert a JSON array of the track uris that I ...

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Spotify API to get artist total stream month and day wise

My Question or Issue I am trying to implement the spotify APIs into my site is there any way to get artist total stream data month wise? i searched for the same thing an there are some third party API which is providing the data i want but is there a...

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My Question or Issue   I am trying to implement the spotify APIs into my site is there any way to get artist total stream data month wise? i searched for the same thing an there are some third...

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Analytics
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SpotifyAPI use in app that also uses MusicKit

Im making an app for dancers that has a custom music player with some custom features but I want to cater both to the Spotify and Apple Music users/dancers out there. So, I was wondering if I can use the Spotify API to load a user’s library and contr...

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Im making an app for dancers that has a custom music player with some custom features but I want to cater both to the Spotify and Apple Music users/dancers out there. So, I was wondering if I can use...

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api.spotify.com dns lookup tooks ~30 seconds

Operating System(Ubuntu) My Question or Issue Hey, I just tried to request from Postman application to api.spotify.com, when Postman initial request to api.spotify.com dns lookup toks 30 seconds. When the postman caches dns, response returns immedite...

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Operating System (Ubuntu)   My Question or Issue   Hey,   I just tried to request from Postman application to api.spotify.com, when Postman initial request to api.spotify.com dn...

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dns
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Jupyter Kernel Freezes using spotipy

My Question or Issue I am using the spotify API for developers for school. I am doing a data cleaning class and the algorithm I have I do send a lot of requests but not enough to be considered a threat (as I believe). It works sometimes however, half...

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My Question or Issue   I am using the spotify API for developers for school. I am doing a data cleaning class and the algorithm I have I do send a lot of requests but not enough to be consider...

dckook10

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Bug/Error for your advertisement

PlanFreeCountryCanadaDeviceSpotify app on high-end computer on windows 10Operating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issueit is not really inconvenient for me but I was thinking about repporting it because I assume that ads are in part founding the app...

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  Plan Free Country Canada Device Spotify app on high-end computer on windows 10 Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue it is not really inconvenient for me but I was...

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"Windows" "Bug"
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