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Discuss building apps with Spotify APIs and SDKs
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...
I am encountering an issue with authorizing the user-top-read scope for my Spotify application. I have already included both the user-top-read and user-read-private scopes in my authorization request, but I continue to receive an "illegal scope" erro...
I am encountering an issue with authorizing the user-top-read scope for my Spotify application. I have already included both the user-top-read and user-read-private scopes in my authorization request...
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My 10 year old daughter was listening to All Hail King Julian’s soundtrack on Spotify. All Hail King Julian is a CHILDREN’s tv show on Kids Netflix. My daughter clicked on the song I Love Your Toes to listen to it. She then clicked on the musician’s ...
My 10 year old daughter was listening to All Hail King Julian’s soundtrack on Spotify. All Hail King Julian is a CHILDREN’s tv show on Kids Netflix. My daughter clicked on the song I Love Your Toes t...
Spotify Star
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We've spent a few days debugging an issue with the /playlists/ endpoint, as we couldn't find the common variable. We finally found the issue, and its less of a technical bug and more of an API inconsistency / missing documentation. What we were tryin...
We've spent a few days debugging an issue with the /playlists/ endpoint, as we couldn't find the common variable. We finally found the issue, and its less of a technical bug and more of an API incons...
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When submitting a new idea on https://community.spotify.com/t5/Ideas/ct-p/newideas, the process fails when using a single quote (') with the following error:"Oops... something went wrong there. Please try again."Using firefox 109.0.1 on Linux Mint.
When submitting a new idea on https://community.spotify.com/t5/Ideas/ct-p/newideas, the process fails when using a single quote (') with the following error: "Oops... something went wrong there. Ple...
Spotify Legend
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I have a Matrix LED Panel and I want to use it with the Spotify API. I know it's possible to grab the cover of the currently playing song. But is it also possible to get the "song progress" of the current song? In the end I would like to hang the pan...
I have a Matrix LED Panel and I want to use it with the Spotify API. I know it's possible to grab the cover of the currently playing song. But is it also possible to get the "song progress" of the cu...
Casual Listener
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I recently promoted my podcast website on Facebook and a few hundred people clicked my ad and visited my page, where I've embedded Spotify's episode player. I know many of these visitors played an episode because I can see downloads in my hosting pla...
I recently promoted my podcast website on Facebook and a few hundred people clicked my ad and visited my page, where I've embedded Spotify's episode player. I know many of these visitors played an ep...
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PlanFree/PremiumCountry Device(iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016)Operating System(iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.) My Question or IssueI have imbeded my spotify account to my website to offer background music but it only allows ...
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 have ...
Spotify Star
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PlanFree/PremiumCountryThe Netherlands DeviceIMAC 2021 VenturaOperating SystemSafari My Question or IssueAfter embedding the Spotify link into my Wordpress backend, still the Word VOORBEELD stays in the Buttom of the artist website.
Plan Free/Premium Country The Netherlands Device IMAC 2021 Ventura Operating System Safari My Question or Issue After embedding the Spotify link into my Wordpress backen...
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PlanPremiumCountryEcuador DeviceAPIOperating SystemHeroku My Question or IssueI have an app that was working 5+ months with no issues, now I'm getting 500/404 when retrieving current song and when playing a song, everything is in place so I would lov...
Plan Premium Country Ecuador Device API Operating System Heroku My Question or Issue I have an app that was working 5+ months with no issues, now I'm getting 500/404 when ret...
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My Question or IssueI am building a podcast web app in react and wanted to implement an on-site player. The app returns podcast clips. I can't seem to see if it is possible using the Spotify web api to embed a player of the podcast at the exact times...
My Question or Issue I am building a podcast web app in react and wanted to implement an on-site player. The app returns podcast clips. I can't seem to see if it is possible using the Spotify web a...
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The current embedded player of Spotify comes with a set of issues. 1. No Volume ControlThe embedded player is able to play music, but it is in no way possible to control the volume of the player. I have seen this create a very uncomfortable experienc...
The current embedded player of Spotify comes with a set of issues. 1. No Volume Control The embedded player is able to play music, but it is in no way possible to control the volume of the ...
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Is there an API that lets user fetch the timestamp at which the song has been scrubbed to the most?
Is there an API that lets user fetch the timestamp at which the song has been scrubbed to the most?
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PlanPremiumCountryMXOS W11 My Question or IssueI don't understand why in the StreamingHistory, some tracks have the field "msPlayed" with 0 as a value. Example: "endTime" : "2022-03-30 20:08", "artistName" : "Ludovico Einaudi", "trackName" : "Two Tre...
Plan Premium Country MX OS W11 My Question or Issue I don't understand why in the StreamingHistory, some tracks have the field "msPlayed" with 0 as a value. Example:...
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Wondering why there are two URLs and two IDs for the same podcast. I have several exmaples of this, but here is one: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6Zovhm9k4ZbBZhac2YMQvD https://open.spotify.com/episode/3AFGrYGhZTQpBeoCkIaquA Different URLs but th...
Wondering why there are two URLs and two IDs for the same podcast. I have several exmaples of this, but here is one: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6Zovhm9k4ZbBZhac2YMQvD ht...
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Included here are screenshots for Recently Played as provided by Spotify App and the API endpoint that provides the same data with limit set to 50. You can see that on the same date, the app has more songs. Why is this the case? Shouldn't all access ...
Included here are screenshots for Recently Played as provided by Spotify App and the API endpoint that provides the same data with limit set to 50. You can see that on the same date, the app has more...
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wenn ich Music höre verbindet sich irgendein gäret mit mein spotify acc und spielt irgendwelche music die ich nicht kenne
wenn ich Music höre verbindet sich irgendein gäret mit mein spotify acc und spielt irgendwelche music die ich nicht kenne
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Hello, Is it possible to get the playCount in the API? I cannot find it anywhere, yet the information is listed on the website. Have I missed it somewhere in the API responses? Many thanks.
Hello, Is it possible to get the playCount in the API? I cannot find it anywhere, yet the information is listed on the website. Have I missed it somewhere in the API responses? &nb...
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PlanPremium CountryCanada My Question or IssueIn the past few days we have been receiving a lot of 504 Gateway Timeout responses using the Spotify Web API. We are trying to send the following request: curl --header 'Authorization: Bearer ' "https://a...
Plan Premium Country Canada My Question or Issue In the past few days we have been receiving a lot of 504 Gateway Timeout responses using the Spotify Web API. We are trying to se...
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The new "Get the User's Queue" endpoint is pretty neat: https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/#/operations/get-queue However, it has a small problem that prevent it from being usable in all cases. You see, the queue will usual...
The new "Get the User's Queue" endpoint is pretty neat: https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/#/operations/get-queue However, it has a small problem that prevent it f...
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I am creating an open-source command-line tool that will be using Spotify API. For authorization flow I am using the PKCE flow with a client ID and a redirect URL. My understanding is that when I distribute my tool, both the client ID and the redirec...
I am creating an open-source command-line tool that will be using Spotify API. For authorization flow I am using the PKCE flow with a client ID and a redirect URL. My understanding is that when I dis...
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