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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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Errors & warnings in Emebed Album and Single/s

Hi, We are about to launch a new website for a global pop band and the embedded "Preview music/embedded album" and its play icon is not visible on the staging site and subsequently the "embed album" is not working. Desktop version the Icon is gone an...

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  • Hi,  We are about to launch a new website for a global pop band and the embedded "Preview music/embedded album" and its play icon is not visible on the staging site and subsequently the "embed ...
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http://localhost:8888/login#error=state_mismatch

My Question or IssueWhen I click authenticate with spotify button in my application the URL returns this http://localhost:8888/login#error=state_mismatch. My spotify uri is this http://localhost:8888/callbackhttp://localhost:8888Not sure what to do i...

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  • My Question or Issue When I click authenticate with spotify button in my application the URL returns this http://localhost:8888/login#error=state_mismatch.  My spotify uri is this  ...
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Putting my Spotify clone app onto the Apple App Store - "Export Compliance Information" issue

Hey guys, I want to deploy my Spotify Clone onto the Apple App Store. My question is when it comes to the "Export Compliance Information", which tick to I select? I'm not familiar with encryption algorithms, nor do I know which one the Spotify API us...

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  • Hey guys, I want to deploy my Spotify Clone onto the Apple App Store. My question is when it comes to the "Export Compliance Information",  which tick to I select? I'm not familiar with encrypti...
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Upsteam dependency error, code 400 when trying to connect with web player

PlanPremiumCountryPolandDevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 After successfully obtaining the auth token and creating a player instance in my web app, I keep getting this network error when I call player.connect(): Request:Request URL:https://cpapi.spo...

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  • Plan Premium Country Poland Device PC Operating System Windows 10   After successfully obtaining the auth token and creating a player instance in my web app, I keep getting this network...
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Use of audio analysis features as machine learning input

As of 8 May 2023, version 9 of the Spotify Developer Terms and the new Developer Policy have come into effect. In particular, articles IV.2.a.i of the Developer Terms and III.14 of the Developer Policy explicitly forbid any use of the Spotify Content...

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  • As of 8 May 2023, version 9 of the Spotify Developer Terms and the new Developer Policy have come into effect.   In particular, articles IV.2.a.i of the Developer Terms and III.14 of the Devel...
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API to fetch Podcast Stats

My team and I are developing an analytics platform for digital creators and Spotify podcast analytics is one of the features we'd like to have.Specifically, I would like an API endpoint to fetch metadata on the performance of uploaded podcasts by a u...

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  • My team and I are developing an analytics platform for digital creators and Spotify podcast analytics is one of the features we'd like to have. Specifically, I would like an API endpoint to fetch me...
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play, togglePlay, pause does not work in iframe api

I have implementeed an iframe api on my website.Since some days, the play control functions do not work.I cannot call play, toogleplay, pause on the embedcontroller in JavaScript.It does neither work in the JavaScript Console. The functions have no e...

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  • I have implementeed an iframe api on my website. Since some days, the play control functions do not work. I cannot call play, toogleplay, pause on the embedcontroller in JavaScript. It does neithe...
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I need help on trying to input Spotify in an app I am getting created . What do I need to tell my developers

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  • I need help on trying to input Spotify in an app I am getting created . What do I need to tell my developers  
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Getting Most Recent Results when Searching for Podcast Episodes in the Spotify API

I pretend to get the most recent episodes for when their title or description contain some text like, for example, "tim ferriss". Is this possible? I managed to search for certain strings with Search for Item option but I can't figure out how to sort...

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  • ...earch for Item option but I can't figure out how to sort the results by publication datetime. Thanks in advance.
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react native open spotify app for authentication

PlanPremiumDeviceIOS / Android Hello, I would like to authorize my app on the spotify application and not on the web app, except that https://account.spotify.com does not open with the spotify application, what should I do. It already work with webap...

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  • Plan Premium Device IOS / Android   Hello,   I would like to authorize my app on the spotify application and not on the web app, except that https://account.spotify.com does not op...
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Solved!!Superuser Contribution Why is refreshing access token returning "invalid client"?

PlanPremiumCountryUKDeviceEdge browserOperating Systemwindows 10 My Question or IssueI always receive this error when I run my fetch call to refresh my access_token: {error: 'invalid_client', error_description: 'Invalid client'}I have checked my clie...

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  • Plan Premium Country UK Device Edge browser Operating System windows 10   My Question or Issue I always receive this error when I run my fetch call to refresh my access_token: {error: ...
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Dynamic CDN domains for images?

Gooday, I would like to ask if the CDN's where the images are hosted are always the same or change overtime? I'm using NextJS and need to whitelist these domains for my images.This is what I'm trying to do: https://nextjs.org/docs/api-reference/next/...

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  • Gooday,   I would like to ask if the CDN's where the images are hosted are always the same or change overtime?   I'm using NextJS and need to whitelist these domains for my images. Thi...
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504 during call to getMyRecentlyPlayedTracks

Hello, I'm currently facing an issue when I retrieve the recently played tracks of this user: "clement-hugger"The API returns a 504 error with no other information :{"error": {"status": 504,"message": "Service didn't reply before timeout"}}For the ot...

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  • Hello, I'm currently facing an issue when I retrieve the recently played tracks of this user: "clement-hugger" The API returns a 504 error with no other information : { "error": { "status": 5...
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Recently Played API return GATEWAY TIMEOUT ERROR

I'm working on an mobile application with Laravel backend, when I was creating APIs for mobile application I must have to get access token from SPOTIFY for that I setup Spotify web authentication to get access token. API flow with web authentication ...

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  • I'm working on an mobile application with Laravel backend, when I was creating APIs for mobile application I must have to get access token from SPOTIFY for that I setup Spotify web authentication to ...
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Elgato Stream Deck plugin not working with WIFI?

Hi there!I'm using the Streamdeck Spotify plugin (from Bar Raiders) to control my music. I recently found out that my internet, Starlink, keeps preventing me from allow it to work, I'm thinking spotify's API maaay have something to do with it? Like i...

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  • Hi there! I'm using the Streamdeck Spotify plugin (from Bar Raiders) to control my music. I recently found out that my internet, Starlink, keeps preventing me from allow it to work, I'm thinking s...
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API for finding list of user's playlists song appears in

Plan: PremiumCountry: USA My Question or IssueI'm trying to build a view where I can see a list of a user's playlists that a given song appears in. Currently, the only feasible approach given the existing API is to iterate through a user's playlists,...

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  • Plan: Premium Country: USA     My Question or Issue I'm trying to build a view where I can see a list of a user's playlists that a given song appears in. Currently, the only feasible a...
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Is it possible to access a basic API through the local client

From what I remember you could get a basic local api client setup in C#, but from what I can see it's not possible anymore. I don't want to peg Spotify endpoints every second just to get the currently playing song when said song is played locally. An...

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  • From what I remember you could get a basic local api client setup in C#, but from what I can see it's not possible anymore.   I don't want to peg Spotify endpoints every second just to get the...
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Artist Genres not being returned from /tracks route

Hey all! I'm making requests to the GET /tracks, and whereas the documentation here states that genres will be returned within the artists field, I'm seeing that's not the case in my responses. Is this no longer supported within the API?

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  • Hey all!   I'm making requests to the GET /tracks, and whereas the documentation here states that genres will be returned within the artists field, I'm seeing that's not the case in my respons...
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Connecting Spotify to a social media

Greetings, we are a young team of developers who are developing a social network. We would like to implement in our social network the functionality of integrating a user page with a spotify account and to display information about the music being li...

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  • Greetings, we are a young team of developers who are developing a social network. We would like to implement in our social network the functionality of integrating a user page with a spotify account ...
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