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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...
We have been getting this error from the API for the last 8 hours (it also shows on the spotify api test page). Can anyone tell if this is being investigated?https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/player/devices{ "error": { "status": 503, "message": "Service ...
We have been getting this error from the API for the last 8 hours (it also shows on the spotify api test page). Can anyone tell if this is being investigated? https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/playe...
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I have found out that the reference documentation for the Spotify Web API is sourced by the OpenAPI specification file from https://developer.spotify.com/_data/documentation/web-api/reference/open-api-schema.yml. While using the Spotify Web API for t...
I have found out that the reference documentation for the Spotify Web API is sourced by the OpenAPI specification file from https://developer.spotify.com/_data/documentation/web-api/referen...
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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 IssueHi everyone! I wanted to know how to extract all hip-hop related playlists. I tried to access...
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 ever...
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I, along with many others, would like to see a Web API endpoint for checking if a playlist contains() a given track, as posted here on this github issue tracker. This would be useful for prompting the user if they would like to skip adding a duplicat...
I, along with many others, would like to see a Web API endpoint for checking if a playlist contains() a given track, as posted here on this github issue tracker. This would be useful for prompting th...
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So I can play music on playlists. I can't play music that I search up or any albums recommended to me. If I add music then I can play them on my PC. Also my PC's application doesn't connect to spotify on my phone. My web browser works perfectly fine.
So I can play music on playlists. I can't play music that I search up or any albums recommended to me. If I add music then I can play them on my PC. Also my PC's application doesn't connect to spotif...
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Hey, So much like the title says, I've done some research and figured I would need to request approval from spotify before making commercial use out of my web-based API app. However, while I did find the google forms link from a forum, I can't find t...
Hey, So much like the title says, I've done some research and figured I would need to request approval from spotify before making commercial use out of my web-based API app. However, while I...
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For a few weeks or even months, I'm regularly getting 503 Service Unavailable in my requests. Seems to be mostly when accessing any of thehttps://api.spotify.com/v1/me/player endpoints. I think it prominently started after the issues back in Septembe...
For a few weeks or even months, I'm regularly getting 503 Service Unavailable in my requests. Seems to be mostly when accessing any of the https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/player endpoints. I think it ...
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When I've created a Blend with others, my proportion of songs are way less than their's (I've like 5-10 songs on the blend and they have like 20-30). Is there a particular reason why this happens?
When I've created a Blend with others, my proportion of songs are way less than their's (I've like 5-10 songs on the blend and they have like 20-30). Is there a particular reason why this happens?
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Bothhttps://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/#/operations/get-track and https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/#/operations/get-several-tracks indicate that a track artist's genres should be returned as par...
Both https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/#/operations/get-track and https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/#/operations/get-several-tracks&...
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I deleted my old account and created a new one for a fresh start...However, I can't change my new account's email to the older one, and my email seems to be still taken even after the 16 days that I must wait...I even tried to check if the email is r...
I deleted my old account and created a new one for a fresh start... However, I can't change my new account's email to the older one, and my email seems to be still taken even after the 16 days that ...
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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.) The "Noon Pacific" app is a Spotify supported curated app of music that is no longer working. I was wonderin...
Plan Free/Premium Country Device (iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016) Operating System (iOS 10, Android Or...
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I have a script that runs periodically which gets followed artists for my personal account. Suddenly, it stopped working today because the server responds with HTTP 502 { "error": { "status": 502, "message": "Request was not transferred" }}It fails e...
I have a script that runs periodically which gets followed artists for my personal account. Suddenly, it stopped working today because the server responds with HTTP 502 { "error": { "status": 502...
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I'm currently working in the UX/UI field and trying to become an UX/UI designer. As a new learner I'm just trying to redraw the Spotify's music page from the screenshot that I took from my Xiaomi Mi 10T phone and I realize a design problem. The minut...
I'm currently working in the UX/UI field and trying to become an UX/UI designer. As a new learner I'm just trying to redraw the Spotify's music page from the screenshot that I took from my ...
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Hello, I simply want to show what spotify song is playing on my stream - how can I do that?I know my client ID and secret but not the redirect URI that I have to create in "edit Settings" in spotify developer dashboard - please help. KR D
Hello, I simply want to show what spotify song is playing on my stream - how can I do that? I know my client ID and secret but not the redirect URI that I have to create in "edit Settings" in...
Spotify Star
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I finally completed my discord bot after a lot of work and tried to request an extension so people could use it, but it got refused and this was the reason:However, building an integration with Discord is not permitted according to our terms and cond...
I finally completed my discord bot after a lot of work and tried to request an extension so people could use it, but it got refused and this was the reason: However, building an integration with Dis...
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Hi! This morning I got rejected for a quota extension from Spotify for these reasons:Metadata, cover art and audio content must be accompanied by a Spotify logo and a link back to the applicable artist, album, track, or playlist on the Spotify Servic...
Hi! This morning I got rejected for a quota extension from Spotify for these reasons: Metadata, cover art and audio content must be accompanied by a Spotify logo and a link back to the applicable a...
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Spotify also running my own channel through anchor app I want to subscribe and present this channel as spotify executive how can I do that. And the free music that is available at a premium of 45 is free music without copy right. How can I use this m...
Spotify also running my own channel through anchor app I want to subscribe and present this channel as spotify executive how can I do that. And the free music that is available at a premium of 45 is...
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PlanPremiumCountryJapan Operating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueHi, I wanna change cover image of playlist by API of URL below.https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/#/operations/upload-custom-playlist-cover But this doc...
Plan Premium Country Japan Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue Hi, I wanna change cover image of playlist by API of URL below. https://developer.spotify.c...
Spotify Star
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Good morning. I created this morning a program in python which, giving in input the URI of an album, gives me back the list of the tracks present in that album (using the Spotify API).Following I continued the program in order to download the feature...
Good morning. I created this morning a program in python which, giving in input the URI of an album, gives me back the list of the tracks present in that album (using the Spotify API). Following I c...
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https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/#/operations/get-users-saved-audiobooks. Using the documentation linked above, I'm trying to make an API request to get the current users saved audiobooks.However this constantly returns H...
https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/#/operations/get-users-saved-audiobooks. Using the documentation linked above, I'm trying to make an API request to get the cur...
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