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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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acorn221

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Confusion regarding developer policy on analyzing Spotify Content or Service

Regarding the developer policy: III. Some prohibited applications -> 13. Do not analyze the Spotify Content or the Spotify Service for any purpose, including without limitation, creating new or derived listenership metrics, benchmarking, functionalit...

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Regarding the developer policy:    III. Some prohibited applications -> 13. Do not analyze the Spotify Content or the Spotify Service for any purpose, including without limitation...

JH96

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Looking for website embed feature

I want to add Spotify to the webpage and link it to a specific playlist of podcasts relevant to website services. Is there any code I can insert into my webpage? If there is a way, please suggest a way to implement it. Looking for help in this regard...

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I want to add Spotify to the webpage and link it to a specific playlist of podcasts relevant to website services. Is there any code I can insert into my webpage? If there is a way, please suggest a w...

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Ability to retrieve track language

The Track Web API provides a lot of useful information and more can even be retrieved from the Get Audio Analysis endpoint. A track additionally has a lot of metadata flags such as the explicit flag but there is no language attribute on the track obj...

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The Track Web API provides a lot of useful information and more can even be retrieved from the Get Audio Analysis endpoint. A track additionally has a lot of metadata flags such as the explicit flag ...

confessfrog

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Search artists / tracks and display on User Profile

Hi team, I have a social network app on IOS / Android. I want users to search through artists and songs and then select a few to display them on their profile. Wanted to check what is the best way to implement the search functions? I can think of two...

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Hi team,   I have a social network app on IOS / Android. I want users to search through artists and songs and then select a few to display them on their profile.    Wanted to check...

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Solved!! Beginner Project

Hi there,I’m currently wanting to build a website that matches users with songs based on a “music personality test” that asks questions similar to the Spotify’s song features they add to tracks (like danceability and acousticness) to then search the ...

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Hi there, I’m currently wanting to build a website that matches users with songs based on a “music personality test” that asks questions similar to the Spotify’s song features they add to tracks (li...

nathanbobell

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Solved!! Authorization Code Flow from stand-alone application

I want to play tracks for a user from a stand-alone application on a Windows computer. This application is written in Java. There doesn't appear to be a way to do the Authorization Code Flow for a user for this configuration. It looks like that can o...

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I want to play tracks for a user from a stand-alone application on a Windows computer. This application is written in Java. There doesn't appear to be a way to do the Authorization Code Flow for a us...

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Solved!!Superuser Contribution Is there a way to disable the buttons on the Spotify banner?

Hi! We have an app that used the old Spotify SDK to stream music, and are now migrating to the new SDK. Our app tries to do playlist curation itself, and as such we want people to use the next/previous buttons in our app. However with the new SDK we ...

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Hi!   We have an app that used the old Spotify SDK to stream music, and are now migrating to the new SDK.   Our app tries to do playlist curation itself, and as such we want people to u...

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Is there a way to terminate the player when our app closes.

Hello! We have an app that used the old Spotify SDK to stream music. We are now migrating to the new SDK, but we have not been able to find a way to terminate the Spotify player when the app closes. Instead users need to close our app, and then close...

Casual Listener

Hello!   We have an app that used the old Spotify SDK to stream music.   We are now migrating to the new SDK, but we have not been able to find a way to terminate the Spotify player whe...

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Add a search Music Page inside my website

Country United States of America I love Spotify and I like doing this via Spotify My Question I'm a Dj and I try to build a page on my website for my clients so:1- They can search for a favorite Music and Add Music to the playlist of their Events on ...

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Country United States of America    I love Spotify and I like doing this via Spotify  My Question   I'm a Dj and I try to build a page on my website for my clients so: 1- Th...

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Solved!! share a playlist with other spotify users?

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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  

Ximzend

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Ads API create/update campaign

Hi Team,I am developer I can able to push the campaign into Spotify ad-studio using campaign ads api, But I wish I could do this for An artist's music on Spotify instead of A concert or artist merch, This is possible in Adstudio UI, because in ads ap...

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Hi Team, I am developer I can able to push the campaign into Spotify ad-studio using campaign ads api, But I wish I could do this for An artist's music on Spotify instead of A concert or a...

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502 Gateway in Start/Resume Playback

$headers = [ 'Authorization' => 'Bearer ' . $request->_token, 'Accept' => 'application/json', 'uris' => 'spotify:episode:' . $request->id, 'position_ms' => 0, ]; $res = $client->request('PUT', 'https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/player/play? device_id=' ....

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 $headers = [             'Authorization' => 'Bearer ' . $request->_token,             'Accept' => 'application/json', &nb...

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[Steam Deck][Linux][Partnership] Official support for Valve's Steam Deck

Hello Since the production and shipping for Valve's Steam Deck is currently on the uptick it seems prudent that Spotify should jump right in and produce an official version for the Deck and form a partnership with Valve. For those who might not have ...

Music Fan

Hello   Since the production and shipping for Valve's Steam Deck is currently on the uptick it seems prudent that Spotify should jump right in  and produce an official version for the Dec...

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No Amazing Slow Downer. No need for Premium Plan.

PlanFreeCountryUnited States DeviceMacBook Pro, iPadPro, iPhone 12proOperating SystemMacOS, iOS My Question or IssueIf I can’t use Spotify and Amazing Slow Downer together, I don’t need Spotify. I already know there will be no response by the company...

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Plan Free Country United States   Device MacBook Pro, iPadPro, iPhone 12pro Operating System MacOS, iOS   My Question or Issue If I can’t use Spotify and Amazing Slow Downer toge...

LionelDizneuf

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Superuser Contribution Autorize enpoint not working

Hello, I am trying to use the spotify public aPI, and for this I am trying to generate a token according to this documentation: https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/general/guides/authorization/code-flow/ The problem is that whenever I try to ...

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Hello,   I am trying to use the spotify public aPI, and for this I am trying to generate a token according to this documentation:   https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/general/g...

spotifyjosh

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Prevent playback api from making a new device every connect

I'm trying to create a web player but every time a user connects to the player it creates a new device. Is there a way to prevent this so every time a user connects it doesn't do this? Edit: Additionally I can't remove these web players. Even when I ...

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I'm trying to create a web player but every time a user connects to the player it creates a new device. Is there a way to prevent this so every time a user connects it doesn't do this?   &...

bennybtl

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Repo for the app-remote-SDK

Hi All,Per this 9/14/18 article, the App Remote SDK betas for iOS and Android were committed to Github at /spotify/ios-sdk and .../android-sdk, respectively. Were the respective versions of the 'Streaming SDK' also at those URLs and hence, the A.R. v...

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Hi All, Per this 9/14/18 article, the App Remote SDK betas for iOS and Android were committed to Github at /spotify/ios-sdk and .../android-sdk, respectively. Were the respective versions of the 'St...

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Superuser Contribution Get User Queue Doesn't Return Full Queue

Working on developing an application, and I have to use this endpoint: https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/#/operations/get-queue I need to obtain the full user queue, but what this endpoint returns is only the first 20 song...

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Working on developing an application, and I have to use this endpoint:   https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/#/operations/get-queue   I need to obtain the full...

Bhranthrok

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Dealing with HTTP Status 400, Code: -1

PlanPremiumCountryIndiaDeviceHP OmenOperating SystemWindows 11 My Question or IssueSo I recently started using Spotify's API through Spotipy library in Python for a school project.The objective of our project is to analyze the songs in Billboard HOT ...

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Plan Premium Country India Device HP Omen Operating System Windows 11   My Question or Issue So I recently started using Spotify's API through Spotipy library in Python for a school pr...

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(Mobile app) Discography display song list

PlanPremiumCountryUSA DeviceSamsung S21 PlusOperating SystemAndroid My Question or IssueWhy is the discography only available by album? People don't know what album has their favorite songs. Discography should have an option to view a list of all son...

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Plan Premium Country USA  Device Samsung S21 Plus Operating System Android    My Question or Issue Why is the discography only available by album? People don't know what albu...

alican_gultekin

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Discography View
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