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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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Spotify Extension Request - Unable to upload video and files showing app flow.

While trying to submit the extension request, we're getting a 504 gateway timeout while uploading the media to show the app functionality and flow, kindly help us in the same as we are unable to move forward with the application.

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While trying to submit the extension request, we're getting a 504 gateway timeout while uploading the media to show the app functionality and flow, kindly help us in the same as we are unable to move...

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Tracks played with Web Playback SDK don't appear in recent history

Hello!I recently noticed that if I play a track with the Web Playback SDK, it won't appear in the me/player/recently-played API endpoint results.I seem to remember that this was the case before. Has this recently been changed?In any case, are the tra...

Music Fan

Hello! I recently noticed that if I play a track with the Web Playback SDK, it won't appear in the me/player/recently-played API endpoint results. I seem to remember that this was the case befo...

Mordicus

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Requesting Playback Completion Information from the Spotify API

My ideaI am trying to create an app for fun, that counts how many hours I've listened to each song I hear in Spotify when the app is running.My Question or IssueCan't I request from Spotify API, if a person listened to the full song or not!Because I ...

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My idea I am trying to create an app for fun, that counts how many hours I've listened to each song I hear in Spotify when the app is running. My Question or Issue Can't I request from Spotify API...

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Get all editorial playlists from Spotify through the API

I am working on a web application fro which I need to have a list of all the editorial playlists of Spotify. I could successfully grab editorial playlists using "spotify" as user ID, but even using an offset, I am not able to get more that 1377 playl...

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 I am working on a web application fro which I need to have a list of all the editorial playlists of Spotify. I could successfully grab editorial playlists using "spotify" as user ID, but even u...

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Spotify DevOps Question - API, Playlist, IP, Metadata

PlanPremiumCountryUSA My Question or IssueI am looking at creating a website for sharing playlist and podcast exclusively for spotify. Looking over the legal terms and what is allowed I had a couple questions before continuing here, or moving to anot...

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Plan Premium Country USA   My Question or Issue I am looking at creating a website for sharing playlist and podcast exclusively for spotify. Looking over the legal terms and what is allowe...

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Adding html title tag into embedded iframe

Hello, is there any way, to automatically generate html title tag into iframe of embedded content? Page speed is suggesting this as accessibility aprovements.Thank you

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Hello,   is there any way, to automatically generate html title tag into iframe of embedded content?  Page speed is suggesting this as accessibility aprovements. Thank you

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Why aren't I allowed to create an voice controlled Spotify SDA?

PlanPremiumCountryAnyDeviceAnyOperating SystemAny My Question or IssueI was reading through the Spotify Developer Policy when I came across this in Section III:"Do not create a voice-enabled SDA that enables a user to control Spotify with their voice...

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Plan Premium Country Any Device Any Operating System Any   My Question or Issue I was reading through the Spotify Developer Policy when I came across this in Section III: "Do not cr...

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Inquiry about API rejection reasons

Dear Spotify Support,I am reaching out to inquire about the recent rejection of our API application due to "1.Modifies any Spotify visual content, e.g. cropping album artwork, overlaying images on album artwork, placing their brand/logo on album artw...

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Dear Spotify Support, I am reaching out to inquire about the recent rejection of our API application due to "1.Modifies any Spotify visual content, e.g. cropping album artwork, overlaying images o...

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Android authentication failing since I was granted quota extension

I recently applied and was granted a quote extension for my app. Ever since then it seems no users can authenticate via the Android Spotify app remote. The code is all correct to the best of my knowledge and was working fine for me before.val connect...

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I recently applied and was granted a quote extension for my app. Ever since then it seems no users can authenticate via the Android Spotify app remote.   The code is all correct to the best of...

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[DEVELOPER][ANGULAR][WEB] Spotify Web SDK Player does not show up on page

I've been trying to implement the Spotify Web Player on Angular, following this tutorial on the Spotify Documentation Page (although it is shown in React). My goal is to have a web player like the one here at the bottom of the page Although I'm getti...

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I've been trying to implement the Spotify Web Player on Angular, following this tutorial on the Spotify Documentation Page (although it is shown in React). My goal is to have a web player like t...

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Solved!!Superuser Contribution 401 error on all PUT requests

PlanPremiumCountryAustraliaDeviceDesktop, Windows 10, Chrome My Question or IssueHi, I'm making a react web app using Axios for fetch requests. My app already correctly sets a token and receives data from API endpoints such as 'https://api.spotify.co...

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Plan Premium Country Australia Device Desktop, Windows 10, Chrome   My Question or Issue Hi, I'm making a react web app using Axios for fetch requests. My app already correctly sets a to...

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Documentation mistake or bug

This authorization request works for me in php-curl: $ch = curl_init(); //Escribo endpoint el indicado por api curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://accounts.spotify.com/api/token'); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); //IMPORTANTE ES UN...

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This authorization request works for me in php-curl:       $ch = curl_init(); //Escribo endpoint el indicado por api curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://acc...

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App retrieves my data for other users instead of theirs

My Question or Issue I've been trying to write some code that requires a user's playlist using the Spotify API. It works fine when I run the code on my computer and with my login details, but when I get my teacher to run it on their computer with the...

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My Question or Issue   I've been trying to write some code that requires a user's playlist using the Spotify API. It works fine when I run the code on my computer and with my login details, bu...

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Help - How to restore to a snapshot of a playlist

Plan - Family PremiumCountry - CanadaDevice - Any Operating System - Windows 10My Question or Issue I'm looking to restore a playlist that was modified up to a week ago.Shared with family. I've never used Spotify for Developers, Web API.Just learned ...

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Plan - Family Premium Country - Canada Device - Any Operating System - Windows 10 My Question or Issue   I'm looking to restore a playlist that was modified up to a week...

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"Granted quota extension" for years... but nobody can connect now?

I have an app, been granted a quota extension for some 6 years. This month, nobody can connect but me. So it's behaving like there is no quota extension. It's rm-spot.com.Any others experiencing this? When I connected to my dashboard this month, I sa...

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I have an app, been granted a quota extension for some 6 years.  This month, nobody can connect but me.  So it's behaving like there is no quota extension.  It's rm-spot.com. Any ...

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Clarification on Developer Terms - Building Profiles of Users

Do not analyze the Spotify Content or the Spotify Service for any purpose, including without limitation, creating new or derived listenership metrics, benchmarking, functionality, usage statistics, user metrics, or building profiles of users, includi...

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Do not analyze the Spotify Content or the Spotify Service for any purpose, including without limitation, creating new or derived listenership metrics, benchmarking, functionality, usage statistics, u...

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Do streams via Web API count?

Hello, We are currently planning a fan portal for a client, and one feature that the client has requested is the ability for fans to listen to his songs through the portal. We plan to use https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api for this p...

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Hello,   We are currently planning a fan portal for a client, and one feature that the client has requested is the ability for fans to listen to his songs through the portal. We plan to use ht...

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Question about artist genre classification

Hi everyone! I'm new here, don't know much about development so it might be a silly question. Is there any information about how it works the artist genre classification? I'm trying to understand how it works and specially if there's a way to manuall...

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Hi everyone! I'm new here, don't know much about development so it might be a silly question. Is there any information about how it works the artist genre classification? I'm trying to understand how...

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{"error":{"status":404,"message":"Invalid username"}} Error (Nodejs)

PlanFree/Premium CountryTurkey LanguageNodejs My Question or Issue From this code: const express = require('express') const app = express() var client_id = 'asd'; var client_secret = 'asd'; // Base64 encoding of the client_id and client_secret var en...

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Plan Free/Premium   Country Turkey   Language Nodejs   My Question or Issue   From this code:           const express = require('express'...

Ximzend

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API Invoke-RestMethod - Only active device shown

Hi, in powershell, when i get devices on my premium account, i see device only when Spotify app is opened on them. How do i get the ID of "another device"?Thanks!

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Hi, in powershell, when i get devices on my premium account, i see device only when Spotify app is opened on them.  How do i get the ID of "another device"? Thanks!

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