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Important: App review and quota extension waiting times

The Spotify for developers platform helps many bring their ideas to life. Whether it's a short term app helping an artist’s release or something more long term - there is always a chance of success. Things start to grow and then you might also need w...

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API or SDK or dodumentation for Car Thing?

Is there any technical documentation available for the Car Thing? I'd love to help enable the use of this device with bluetooth enabled computers / Spotify Connect hardware.Use case: Enable seamless multiuser experience without pairing to phones.Feat...

  • Casual Listener
  • Is there any technical documentation available for the Car Thing? I'd love to help enable the use of this device with bluetooth enabled computers / Spotify Connect hardware. Use case: Enable seaml...
  • Hubo
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Possible bug/inconsistency found in the "get album by id" operation

Hello, I am writing this post because I have found a possible bug/inconsistency in the API implementation. By using the endpoint “/v1/markets”, a list of all the available markets is returned. However, when testing the operation “get album by Id”, th...

  • Casual Listener
  • Hello, I am writing this post because I have found a possible bug/inconsistency in the API implementation. By using the endpoint “/v1/markets”, a list of all the available markets is returned. Howeve...
  • juaaloval
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Solved!! Can a backend fully control one Spotify account even though many users use it

PlanPremiumCountryDenmarkDevicePCOperating SystemWindows 11My Question or IssueWhat I need is only one Spotify account connected to my app and users of my app should be able to request songs to be added to the queue and then my backend would be the o...

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  • Plan Premium Country Denmark Device PC Operating System Windows 11 My Question or Issue What I need is only one Spotify account connected to my app and users of my app should be able to requ...
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Add Rspotify to the "Web API Libraries" page

I'm one of the maintainers of Rspotify, the most popular library for the Spotify API in the Rust programming language. Back in July of 2020, when the spotify/web-api repo was still used for tickets like this one, I asked the devs to add Rspotify to t...

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  • I'm one of the maintainers of Rspotify, the most popular library for the Spotify API in the Rust programming language.   Back in July of 2020, when the spotify/web-api repo was still used for ...
  • marioom
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API /views endpoint unauthorized discover playlists

Hello,I'm currently developing an app where I want to get the user's discover playlists. I did it by searching the user's library by name. The problems with this approach are: If you follow multiple lets say "Discover Weekly" playlists, they are indi...

  • Casual Listener
  • Hello, I'm currently developing an app where I want to get the user's discover playlists. I did it by searching the user's library by name. The problems with this approach are: If you follow multipl...
  • SaPropper
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Sporadic login failures

When logging in from our app, we're experiencing sporadic login failures. We see a generic error. Is anyone else experiencing this?Logging in from an Android Device.

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  • When logging in from our app, we're experiencing sporadic login failures. We see a generic error. Is anyone else experiencing this? Logging in from an Android Device.
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Need Premium web apis for app.

PlanPremiumCountryUs Device(All iOS & Android Devices)Operating System(iOS, Android) I want to integrate the web apis in my app on android and ios, Please can you confirm the premium plans of the apis executions.Actually currently I have used your ap...

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  • Plan Premium Country Us   Device (All iOS & Android Devices) Operating System (iOS, Android)   I want to integrate the web apis in my app on android and ios, Please can you co...
  • vivekD7
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Cannot request quota extension (unauthorized)

I don't know if this is the right place to put this, but there is maybe some error with spotify dev. I am trying to submit a quota extension request, but when I attach screenshots of my app or a screencast, I'm getting an 'unauthorized' error.

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  • I don't know if this is the right place to put this, but there is maybe some error with spotify dev. I am trying to submit a quota extension request, but when I attach screenshots of my app or a scre...
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Ambiguous error message - Error Domain=com.spotify.sdk.login Code=3

Hi, my IOS application just started not to work ever since the Spotify crash that happened earlier today. I'm not sure if it's because of that but I got this error code that I have searched the internet for but no one seems to have any info about it....

  • Casual Listener
  • Hi, my IOS application just started not to work ever since the Spotify crash that happened earlier today. I'm not sure if it's because of that but I got this error code that I have searched the inter...
  • downdrown
  • Casual Listener
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Am I allowed to use album art in a radio station app? (now playing + spotify album art)

Hi, I'm creating apps for a radio station and I'm wondering if I can use the Spotify API to show album art next to their live stream. The album art is visible in their 'now playing' interface. I know that we have to add the Spotify logo as stated in ...

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  • Hi, I'm creating apps for a radio station and I'm wondering if I can use the Spotify API to show album art next to their live stream. The album art is visible in their 'now playing' interface.  ...
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how to get approved for simple auth api for my website login ?

hello im new to this but im working on to separate apis, first one is so simple and i just need to move it from development mode, i dont know how to Request extension to allow users to login through Spotify auth. (its already built by my developer us...

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  •   hello im new to this but im working on to separate apis,  first one is so simple and i just need to move it from development mode, i dont know how to Request extension to allow users to...
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Get 429 lifted

Hi I've been working on a Spotify application for a school project and I didn't realize it was continuously sending requests. I need the assignment to work but now I have a Retry-After of 9.5 hrs. I think I fixed the issue now and wanted to know if t...

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  • Hi I've been working on a Spotify application for a school project and I didn't realize it was continuously sending requests. I need the assignment to work but now I have a Retry-After of 9.5 hrs. &...
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INVALID_CLIENT: Invalid client issue

PlanPremiumCountryUSAOperating SystemWindows 10My Question or IssueAny time I try to login and authorize using our app, I get this error "INVALID_CLIENT: Invalid client". This isn't an issue for anyone else working on the app. Any ideas?

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  • Plan Premium Country USA Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue Any time I try to login and authorize using our app, I get this error "INVALID_CLIENT: Invalid client". This isn't an ...
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High number of 503 errors again

The API endpoint that returns a user's top artists and tracks is returning a high number of 503 errors again!

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  • The API endpoint that returns a user's top artists and tracks is returning a high number of 503 errors again!
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Embed widget asci code encoding issue

PlanPremiumCountryRomaniaDeviceDesktopOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueI'm trying to embed some podcasts on my site and the titles are having some issues with the character encoding. They're displaying the apostrophes as ' and the & cha...

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  • Plan Premium Country Romania Device Desktop Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue I'm trying to embed some podcasts on my site and the titles are having some issues with t...
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Quota and Scope Extension Request

Hello Spotify Developers, I am a researcher at the University of Southampton working on a web application for conducting an academic survey on novel music recommendation interfaces. The application will be collecting the saved songs from a user’s Spo...

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  • Hello Spotify Developers,     I am a researcher at the University of Southampton working on a web application for conducting an academic survey on&...
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Authentication for Server Account

Howdy! So I'm in the middle of a potential Spotify project and I've hit a snag I should have expected but didn't. I'm looking to have a bot create playlists on a Spotify account. The initiation of this task will be cron job based, so I'm requiring no...

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  • Howdy!   So I'm in the middle of a potential Spotify project and I've hit a snag I should have expected but didn't. I'm looking to have a bot create playlists on a Spotify account. The initiat...
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Solved!! Top artists and tracks endpoint gives a 100% 503 error rate

When using the /me/top endpoints, it always returns a 503 error, even in the developer console. The Spotify desktop app is also broken due to that error:

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  • When using the /me/top endpoints, it always returns a 503 error, even in the developer console. The Spotify desktop app is also broken due to that error:    
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Keep getting a "'" error when apostrophes are supposed to display in embedded Spotify player

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 there,I've been getting an issue with one of my clients where two title tracks that are su...

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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 Hi th...
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Retrieving "What's new" items via API

Hi all. The "What's New" feature currently available in the mobile app is pretty useful. I like being able to see new songs/albums from followed artists right as they're pushed into Spotify without having to wait for Friday's Release Radar. I curate ...

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  • Hi all. The "What's New" feature currently available in the mobile app is pretty useful. I like being able to see new songs/albums from followed artists right as they're pushed into Spotify without h...
  • porazonycreeper
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