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Discuss building apps with Spotify APIs and SDKs
Hey everyone, I've created this thread to share some updates to how quotas work for Development Mode apps on the Spotify Web API to help you better organize your projects. We've shared a Blog post that explains everything in detail. Here's the short ...
Hey everyone, I've created this thread to provide more insight on an upcoming change to how refresh tokens work for apps on the Spotify Web API. We've shared a blog post that explains what's changing and why. The short version: refresh tokens will no...
Plan PremiumCountry - USADevice DesktopOperating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue - Dashboard won't let me create more apps.
Plan Premium Country - USA Device Desktop Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue - Dashboard won't let me create more apps.
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PlanPremiumCountryUSAAppVibe SwipeMy Question or IssueI am building a spotify / tinder type app for adding songs to playlists by listening to a certain vibe and swiping left and right. I am not able to add the songs to any playlist because spotify is...
Plan Premium Country USA App Vibe Swipe My Question or Issue I am building a spotify / tinder type app for adding songs to playlists by listening to a certain vibe and swiping left and right. ...
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PlanPremiumCountryDenmarkDeviceMSIOperating SystemWindows 11 My Question or IssueWhen I hover over the "Creat App" buttun, it just says that I've reached my limit, but I've only created one, and back when I created it I was still able to create more,...
Plan Premium Country Denmark Device MSI Operating System Windows 11 My Question or Issue When I hover over the "Creat App" buttun, it just says that I've reached my limit, but I've o...
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Hi everyone,I’m working on a Spotify Web API app that uses the Client Credentials Flow to read public playlist metadata.Everything works fine with my own playlists, but for any other public playlist I get this error:{ "error": "Could not fetch playli...
Hi everyone, I’m working on a Spotify Web API app that uses the Client Credentials Flow to read public playlist metadata. Everything works fine with my own playlists, but for any other public playl...
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Hi,I am trying to integrate Spotify remote android sdk into my app for remote control and publish in my playstore, I am an individual developer without a website or firm, I have two questions.1. Can I have more than 5 users in development mode or do ...
Hi, I am trying to integrate Spotify remote android sdk into my app for remote control and publish in my playstore, I am an individual developer without a website or firm, I have two questions. 1. ...
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PlanPremiumCountryGermanyDevice(iPhone 14, Macbook Pro late 2021)Operating System(iOS 26.2) My Question or IssueApp Disabled: My Data Extractor - ID: e5eeb0e51e984a86b662478a71f4be88Dear Spotify Developer Support Team, I am writing with deep regret r...
Plan Premium Country Germany Device (iPhone 14, Macbook Pro late 2021) Operating System (iOS 26.2) My Question or Issue App Disabled: My Data Extractor - ID: e5eeb0e51e984a86b662478a...
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My Question or Issue I'm using the Spotify API to search tracks by name and artist, I have reach a special case where the name as the song is know is not strictly equals to the song name on Spotify: Song Name: Act I: Scene Two: I. Overture 1928Song N...
My Question or Issue I'm using the Spotify API to search tracks by name and artist, I have reach a special case where the name as the song is know is not strictly equals to the song name on ...
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Plan PremiumCountry PLDevice PCOperating System Windows 11 I have Spotify Premium, and I have a valid clientId and clientSecret. The problem is strange. I make a request to get an access_token. I receive it, but every other request I make returns a 4...
Plan Premium Country PL Device PC Operating System Windows 11 I have Spotify Premium, and I have a valid clientId and clientSecret. The problem is strange. I make a request to g...
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PlanPremiumCountryIndiaDeviceMacbook Air M3, 24GB RAM, 2024Operating System26.4 (25E246) My Question or IssueHi Spotify Team,I noticed that during small instrumental gaps (when no lyrics are playing), the player shows the “Sync” button even though I ...
Plan Premium Country India Device Macbook Air M3, 24GB RAM, 2024 Operating System 26.4 (25E246) My Question or Issue Hi Spotify Team, I noticed that during small instrumental ...
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PlanPremiumCountryUSA My Question or IssueI activated a premium account yesterday, but am still receiving a 403 error when calling the search endpoint. I've tried rotating the client secret just in case, but that doesn't help. Borrowing a token from ...
Plan Premium Country USA My Question or Issue I activated a premium account yesterday, but am still receiving a 403 error when calling the search endpoint. I've tried rotating the ...
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I tried to follow the instruction to create a web app using web api spotify but on callback I got "ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED", I tried every solutions I found on internet but it still the same. Any help ? (I tried on OPERA, CHROME and EDGE)
I tried to follow the instruction to create a web app using web api spotify but on callback I got "ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED", I tried every solutions I found on internet but it still the same. Any help...
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Hi everyone,I’m working in an automotive environment where we integrate the Spotify on Android Automotive OS and perform end-to-end (E2E) testing of infotainment features.As part of our testing, we need to validate real user flows, including login an...
Hi everyone, I’m working in an automotive environment where we integrate the Spotify on Android Automotive OS and perform end-to-end (E2E) testing of infotainment features. As part of our testing, ...
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I am trying to replicate the behaviour of the feature.fm presave feature. When I perform a presave action it takes me to a web page briefly which is the accounts.spotify.com/authorize page and then the spotify app opens up and shows that exact same p...
I am trying to replicate the behaviour of the feature.fm presave feature. When I perform a presave action it takes me to a web page briefly which is the accounts.spotify.com/authorize page and then t...
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PlanPremiumCountryUSADeviceTried on Linux desktop and Android phone Trying to post this again because my first post was auto-deleted for some reason... My Question or IssueRecently, when trying to complete the OAuth flow for my own app https://spotif...
Plan Premium Country USA Device Tried on Linux desktop and Android phone Trying to post this again because my first post was auto-deleted for some reason... My Question or Issu...
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I am struggling to get multi-word genre search working via the search endpoint.Using the Web API, I try to set q to genre:hard rock which gets converted to: search?q=genre%3Ahard+rock&type=artist This ends up giving a bunch of results with the word "...
I am struggling to get multi-word genre search working via the search endpoint. Using the Web API, I try to set q to genre:hard rock which gets converted to: search?q=genre%3Ahard+rock...
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Hello, I’m building/built a cross-platform music sharing tool - users paste a link from one streaming service and get the equivalent on every other platform. Groups, shared playlists, audio recognition. Live product, billing active, NZ company incorp...
Hello, I’m building/built a cross-platform music sharing tool - users paste a link from one streaming service and get the equivalent on every other platform. Groups, shared playlists, audio ...
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PlanPremiumCountryUSAThe endpoint is returning an empty list despite having played and currently playing songs on Spotify.https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/player/recently-playedTest it out here: https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/refere...
Plan Premium Country USA The endpoint is returning an empty list despite having played and currently playing songs on Spotify. https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/player/recently-played Test it...
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PlanFree/PremiumCountry DevicepcOperating System Windows 10 My Question or Issuei need to extend the number of users that can login with spotify on my web app, am building a "guess the song" game for me to play with my friends and i even bought spoti...
Plan Free/Premium Country Device pc Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue i need to extend the number of users that can login with spotify on my web app, am b...
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There is currently no endpoint to pin a playlist. This feature would be nice because I want my app to be able to pin a 'current playlist' for the user. This is something I do manually all of the time. The playlist creation endpoint and the https://de...
There is currently no endpoint to pin a playlist. This feature would be nice because I want my app to be able to pin a 'current playlist' for the user. This is something I do manually all of...
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The devicelist returned from Spotify is again and again malformed, messing up the name of the device. Other times the names are completely correct. I have not yet found the trigger for this. { "devices": [ { "id": "44be6fd55*****5c5d6e72ecb2acace96bd...
The devicelist returned from Spotify is again and again malformed, messing up the name of the device. Other times the names are completely correct. I have not yet found the trigger for this. ...
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