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Refresh token expiration: discussion thread

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...

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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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Kugelschreibert

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Get the played time of a song

Hi, is there a way to get the heard duration of a song? At the moment, only the complete song duration is returned by the api. It would be very nice to be able to see if a song was listened 30 seconds, 2 minutes or the whole song. If I have missed so...

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Hi,    is there a way to get the heard duration of a song? At the moment, only the complete song duration is returned by the api.  It would be very nice to be able to see if a son...

hon-za

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Follow Playlist requires too much scope?

If I checked it correctly, currently `Follow Playlist` API requires BOTH `playlist-modify-public` and `playlist-modify-private` regardless of the request's "public" field. But I think it should require only one of those two scopes corresponding to th...

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If I checked it correctly, currently `Follow Playlist` API requires BOTH `playlist-modify-public` and `playlist-modify-private` regardless of the request's "public" field. But I think it should requi...

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Developer Quota Mode User Authentication – Endpoints Not Returning 403 for Unauthenticated Users

I'm running into an issue with my Spotify-enabled web app where some users are able to enter the Spotify OAuth 2.0 flow without being authenticated on my developer dashboard. After the callback function and getting a user's access token, I currently ...

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I'm running into an issue with my Spotify-enabled web app where some users are able to enter the Spotify OAuth 2.0 flow without being authenticated on my developer dashboard. After the callback funct...

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Error 429 only on https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/playlists endpoint

PlanPremiumCountryUSAMy Question or Issue I'm trying to build a Spotify client using the Web API and the web playback sdk, but when I make an http request to the https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/playlists I get a 429 error despite only making one reques...

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Plan Premium Country USA My Question or Issue   I'm trying to build a Spotify client using the Web API and the web playback sdk, but when I make an http request to the https://api.spotify....

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Increasing the amount of songs offline

Hello everyone, I'm sure that the limit of 10,000 songs is frustrating, so I have an idea - after you finish to download 10,000, only than you'll be allowed to download the other 10,000 songs that you want, and all over again. For an example - if you...

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Hello everyone, I'm sure that the limit of 10,000 songs is frustrating, so I have an idea - after you finish to download 10,000, only than you'll be allowed to download the other 10,000 songs that yo...

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After signup as a new user I'm not allow to get access token using Next Auth

I'm working on new project as developer for educational purpose I had signup as a new user, I want get access to the API to fetch some information but I not allow to do so. After following all the guide of next Auth.PlanFreeCountry Device(HP laptop)O...

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I'm working on new project as developer for educational purpose I had signup as a new user, I want get access to the API to fetch some information but I not allow to do so. After following all the gu...

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[Web API] Add WebSockets to the Web API for sending real-time events

Add WebSockets to the Web API for sending real-time events like play, pause, skip and more. This way the users of the API will not have to make frequent requests for these kinds of data and will get the data when these events happens. This will reall...

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Add WebSockets to the Web API for sending real-time events like play, pause, skip and more. This way the users of the API will not have to make frequent requests for these kinds of data and will get ...

Peter_Schorn

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Quota extension refused : commercial SDAs

Hello lovely Spotify Community, I sent a request to extend my quota to put my app on the store. But I have received this message : This is a notification that your submission was not approved for the following reason(s) : The Spotify Platform can not...

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Hello lovely Spotify Community,  I sent a request to extend my quota to put my app on the store. But I have received this message :   This is a notification that your submission ...

Peter_Schorn

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How to make is possible for anyone to fetch my spotify data without auth flows

My goal is to display the song I'm currently listening to using the player endpoint on the api. The issue is that I would need to use one of the authorization flows to get this data, which shouldn't be necessary for anyone visiting the website (becau...

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My goal is to display the song I'm currently listening to using the player endpoint on the api. The issue is that I would need to use one of the authorization flows to get this data, which shouldn't ...

Peter_Schorn

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Web API endpoint for getting top 5 cities of any artist

PlanPremiumCountryAnyDeviceAnyOperating SystemAny My Question or IssueI'm thinking of making a service that matches young artists to venues in those cities where the most of their audience comes from. To do so, my service needs to know stats on top c...

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Plan Premium Country Any Device Any Operating System Any   My Question or Issue I'm thinking of making a service that matches young artists to venues in those cities where the most of ...

HJC55555

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403 Error returned from Create Playlist

PlanPremiumCountryUKDeviceMacBook Pro 2020Operating SystemBigSur 11 My Question or IssueHi Everyone, I am creating an app that uses Spotify's API within a react app, where you sign in with your spotify account using OAuth, from which I receive my acc...

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Plan Premium Country UK Device MacBook Pro 2020 Operating System BigSur 11   My Question or Issue Hi Everyone,   I am creating an app that uses Spotify's API within a react app,...

fireswan

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Solved!! Auth-Scope Redirect to App because users don't remember login.

Hi people, Some user feedback on my app is that they don't remember Spotify login to grant auth scope permissions. Is there a way to route users to the Spotify app, kinda like logging in with Facebook?

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Hi people,   Some user feedback on my app is that they don't remember Spotify login to grant auth scope permissions.   Is there a way to route users to the Spotify app, kinda like loggi...

mashmia

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How does the API prioritize factors in a recommendation?

For example, in the example args below, I've chosen several factors that don't align with the artist. The AP response may be empty. What should I do if I am more strict on the criteria than the artist? How do you recommend that the seed_artist/track/...

Music Fan

For example, in the example args below, I've chosen several factors that don't align  with the artist. The AP response may be empty.    What should I do if I am more strict on the cr...

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"Restricted to Premium Users" error but I am a premium user

PlanPremium Duo My Question or IssueI am trying to set up a spotify webpack SDK but my token will not work. I've set up the player as shown in the quick start guide and have tried the NPM library'react-spotify-web-playback'and in both files I get an ...

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Plan Premium Duo    My Question or Issue I am trying to set up a spotify webpack SDK but my token will not work. I've set up the player as shown in the quick start guide and have tried ...

EvanMcG

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Top 200 Tracks

Hi -I am new at the Spotify API development community.Is there an example or instructions of how to get a list of the Top 200 songs ? Output in a CSV containing information such as :titlerankdate (on or after 01/01/2021)artisturlregionchart (top 200)...

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Hi - I am new at the Spotify API development community. Is there an example or instructions of how to get a list of the Top 200 songs ?   Output in a CSV containing information such as : ti...

Peter_Schorn

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"https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/player" returning 500

"https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/player" just returning 500i have another implemented exect same and it did work. the endpoint is down

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"https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/player" just returning 500 i have another implemented exect same and it did work. the endpoint is down

Peter_Schorn

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The callback url makes the url with hash instead of querystring

Hi, following this docs:https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/general/guides/authorization-guide/ The flow works well, but is returning back with a hash:http://localhost:5000/callback#access_token=BQDt7fHXta65b... Instead of a queryString:http:...

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Hi, following this docs: https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/general/guides/authorization-guide/   The flow works well, but is returning back with a hash: http://localhost:5000/callb...

Peter_Schorn

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"User not registered in the Developer Dashboard" on user's requests

It seems that the API has been incorrectly reporting the "User not registered in the Developer Dashboard" error on every other request our users have been trying to make (while trying to retrieve their playlists, for example).This doesn't really make...

Gig Goer

It seems that the API has been incorrectly reporting the "User not registered in the Developer Dashboard" error on every other request our users have been trying to make (while trying to retrieve the...

Peter_Schorn

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Why spotify API do not accept games ?

I developed a spotify music guessing game, but i cant make it public, because of the terms of service ("Do not create a game, including trivia quizzes.")Why ? Can i make it public somehow ?

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  I developed a spotify music guessing game, but i cant make it public, because of the terms of service ("Do not create a game, including trivia quizzes.") Why ? Can i make it public somehow ?

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Adding a "play" or "state-changed" event to Embeds iframe API please.

Hi Spotify,I would like to ask you to add another event listener to your Embeds player iframe API please.Adding a "play" or "state-changed" event, as same as you got for your Web Playback SDK, and same as other players have as in Soundcloud/Mixcloud/...

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Hi Spotify, I would like to ask you to add another event listener to your Embeds player iframe API please. Adding a "play" or "state-changed" event, as same as you got for your Web Playback SD...

Gil_Goldshlager

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