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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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Create report throwing an error

I am doing the following call, can someone please let me know what I am doing wrong here. POST: https://api-partner.spotify.com/ads/v1.4/adAccounts/ad-account-id/report BODY:{ "filters": { "report_datetime_range": { "report_start": "2022-12-01T00:00:...

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I am doing the following call, can someone please let me know what I am doing wrong here.   POST: https://api-partner.spotify.com/ads/v1.4/adAccounts/ad-account-id/report   BODY: ...

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Create Report
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Reading user library works for one account but not others

PlanFree, PremiumCountryUnited KingdomDeviceiPhone 12, iPhone SE, Dell LaptopOperating SystemWindows 10, iOS My Question or IssueI have developed a Django-based web app where the user logs in and the app displays saved songs. It works perfectly well ...

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Plan Free, Premium Country United Kingdom Device iPhone 12, iPhone SE, Dell Laptop Operating System Windows 10, iOS   My Question or Issue I have developed a Django-based web app where...

Ximzend

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Solved!! Receiving a 403 status when getting user's top items

From what I am reading it is a bad OAuth request, but I cannot identify what I am doing wrong. TIA! import { useEffect, useState } from "react"; import "./App.css"; import axios from "axios"; function App() { const CLIENT_ID = "501594440ad341babe6b49...

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From what I am reading it is a bad OAuth request, but I cannot identify what I am doing wrong. TIA!   import { useEffect, useState } from "react"; import "./App.css"; import axios from "...

Haikalin

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DBus Method for Like/Dislike current track.

The current DBus interface, while covering the basics - such as play/pause, stop, next, etc. - does not currently have a method to add/remove songs from "Liked" (equivalent to pressing the "Save to Your Library" heart button). Adding such an interfac...

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The current DBus interface, while covering the basics - such as play/pause, stop, next, etc. - does not currently have a method to add/remove songs from "Liked" (equivalent to pressing the "Save to Y...

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When to use spotify web playback sdk vs web api

Hi, I'm developing a music events listing web app using nextjs, and supabase as backend. I'm trying to add functionality where if a user uses spotify (and they have a premium account) to authenticate with my app, they can stream music directly from t...

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Hi, I'm developing a music events listing web app using nextjs, and supabase as backend. I'm trying to add functionality where if a user uses spotify (and they have a premium account) to authenticate...

FabGotbig

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Solved!! [SubFront][Partnership] Spotify payment API?

I would like to build a subscription management platform. Does Spotify have a billing API? The concept would be to consolidate users' monthly subscription payments for them. End User's would simply integrate their account to our platform, and we will...

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I would like to build a subscription management platform. Does Spotify have a billing API?   The concept would be to consolidate users' monthly subscription payments for them. End User's would...

Ximzend

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Top 100 Songs of 2022 playlist bug

PlanFree/PremiumCountry Device(iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016)Operating System(Android) My Question or IssueHi, when sharing my top 100 songs playlist link via messenger, it redirects the recipient to his own top 100 songs playlist...

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Plan Free/Premium Country   Device (iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016) Operating System (Android)   My Question or Issue Hi, when sharing my top 100 songs playlist...

AdamDamon

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502 Bad Gateway Issue for TransferPlayback api

Plan PremiumCountry Korea My Question or IssueDear Spotify,I have been using "Transfer Playback" api but it doesn't work sometimes.In the official api pages, same as in my own application, the api returns 502 Bad Gateway error and doesn't provide any...

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Plan  Premium Country  Korea   My Question or Issue Dear Spotify, I have been using "Transfer Playback" api but it doesn't work sometimes. In the official api pages, same ...

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Proposition for better performance of application

Hi, My name is Kamran Abbaszade, software engineer with over 7 years of experience and data scientist with close to 3 years of experience in Audio AI. I was working on new approach for better music genre classification and I developed an outstanding ...

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Hi,   My name is Kamran Abbaszade, software engineer with over 7 years of experience and data scientist with close to 3 years of experience in Audio AI.   I was working on new approach ...

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Small change to api error responses

I am currently trying out the console API for an application and so far going well, but I ran into an error message while trying the search endpoint: { "error" : { "status" : 400, "message" : "Missing parameter type" } } Now I finally found out what ...

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I am currently trying out the console API for an application and so far going well, but I ran into an error message while trying the search endpoint:     { "error" : { "status" : 4...

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Search

Hey..Was just thinking of one thing today when I was playing music in my library. Would be so nice to have a search function in the library. I mean in one of my library i have many songs. So it would be easy to find just one song in the library inste...

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Hey.. Was just thinking of one thing today when I was playing music in my library. Would be so nice to have a search function in the library. I mean in one of my library i have many songs. So it wou...

HalfNathan

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GTZAN Dataset - Music Genre Classification

PlanPremiumCountryIsraelOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueI am interested to get the analysis on the 1000 samples of music from the GTZAN Datasets which each is 30 seconds (not a whole track, track_id or song name). Is there a better way...

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Plan Premium Country Israel Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue I am interested to get the analysis on the 1000 samples of music from the GTZAN Datasets which each is 30 s...

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Upload Custom Playlist Cover with Python

My Question or IssueHi! I'm having trouble with uploading custom image to playlist cover. Here's my code: def add_playlist_cover(playlist_id, token): with open('cover.jpg', 'rb') as f: data = base64.b64encode(f.read()) auth_header = {"Authorization":...

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My Question or Issue Hi! I'm having trouble with uploading custom image to playlist cover. Here's my code:    def add_playlist_cover(playlist_id, token): with open('cover.jpg', 'rb'...

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The short URL to create Spotify playlists (playlist.new) is not working

If you go to playlist.new to create a new Spotify playlist, it will result in a certificate error. It says that the certificate (which was issued by Let's Encrypt) expired on June 12, 2022 at 04:16:14 UTC.Tried it with latest Chrome and latest Edge o...

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If you go to playlist.new to create a new Spotify playlist, it will result in a certificate error. It says that the certificate (which was issued by Let's Encrypt) expired on June 12, 2022 at 04:16:1...

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Some API calls currently don't support "locale" param

Some API calls currently don't support "locale" param. Calls with local content should have this "locale" param.Some calls such as Get User's Top Items, artist name, title name and album name should be localized. For now, if I included locale param, ...

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Some API calls currently don't support "locale" param. Calls with local content should have this "locale" param. Some calls such as Get User's Top Items, artist name, title name and album name ...

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Spotify Playback SDK - Stuck devices in Connect

Hi!My problem is really simple, but I have not been able to either find a solution or reach anyone at Spotify, who would be able to resolve this for me. Basically I was toying with Spotify Playback API a few weeks back and with each launch of my test...

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Hi! My problem is really simple, but I have not been able to either find a solution or reach anyone at Spotify, who would be able to resolve this for me. Basically I was toying with Spotify Playback...

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Copyright Help.

I am making a discord bot that plays music in VCs. I would like to know if i can do the following:- use Spotify for a discord bot made by me- cut out the ads since discord doesnt allow it

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  I am making a discord bot that plays music in VCs. I would like to know if i can do the following: - use Spotify for a discord bot made by me - cut out the ads since discord doesnt allow it

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Fans buying streaming or publishing rights

family plan Premiumscotland DeviceiPhone 12Operating SystemiOS Sorry this wasn’t meant for public viewing but I thought I was being smart by sending it as a complaint clearly all the major tech companies make it deliberately difficult to do this by e...

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family plan   Premium scotland   Device iPhone 12 Operating System iOS    Sorry this wasn’t meant for public viewing but I thought I was being smart by sending it as a c...

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Quata extension request

When submitting quata extension request, spotify ask for testable app. But without quata extension, only users listed in `Users and Access` can use my App. In this condition, I can not release my App to public. Therefore no testable app on Play store...

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When submitting quata extension request, spotify ask for testable app. But without quata extension, only users listed in `Users and Access` can use my App. In this condition, I can not release my App...

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Can I play whole music track from the spotify api into my custom android app?

PlanFree/PremiumCountry Device(iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016)Operating System(iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.) My Question or IssueHi, I am developing my android app in which I want to use spotify API so I have one doubt tha...

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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 Hi, I a...

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