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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...
Calling the /v1/tracks endpoint will occasionally return a HTTP 500 error. The more ids are requested the more often 500 is returned.Example requests that will sometimes yield this error: https://api.spotify.com/v1/tracks/?ids=7DUY9yMOKsEndED75nhc7W%...
Calling the /v1/tracks endpoint will occasionally return a HTTP 500 error. The more ids are requested the more often 500 is returned. Example requests that will sometimes yield this error: ...
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PlanPremiumCountryBrazilDeviceMacbook Pro 2017Operating SystemmacOS 10.15 My Question or IssueHello,I am running an App that requires the user to authenticate with Spotify, and I am doing this according to the Authorization Code Flow. Most of the tim...
Plan Premium Country Brazil Device Macbook Pro 2017 Operating System macOS 10.15 My Question or Issue Hello, I am running an App that requires the user to authenticate with Spotif...
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Providing opportunities for credited (preferably Songview and Muso.ai to gain access to Spotify stream data similar to Spotify for Artists, but specific for composer and songwriter. PlanFree/PremiumCountry - Worldwide Deviceiphone, Samsung, android, ...
Providing opportunities for credited (preferably Songview and Muso.ai to gain access to Spotify stream data similar to Spotify for Artists, but specific for composer and songwriter. Plan ...
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I've created a Python program that stores my Discover Weekly automatically, but I'd like to specify the location for these newly-created Spotify playlists. I'm not sure if this is possible since it's not explicitly mentioned in the documentation, and...
I've created a Python program that stores my Discover Weekly automatically, but I'd like to specify the location for these newly-created Spotify playlists. I'm not sure if this is possible since it's...
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CountryUSDeviceN/A – developer app query My Question or IssueHi, Our company submitted an app called TIYA, a couple of weeks back for a quota extension. That was 14 days ago and we've not heard anything at all. Our coworker checked yesterday and noti...
Country US Device N/A – developer app query My Question or Issue Hi, Our company submitted an app called TIYA, a couple of weeks back for a quota extension. That ...
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I created a new playlist with create playlist API. After I called API to add tracks to the playlist. As a result I got 500 or 503 errorI'm using spotify-web-api-node package for Node.js
I created a new playlist with create playlist API. After I called API to add tracks to the playlist. As a result I got 500 or 503 error I'm using spotify-web-api-node package for Node.js
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Flow: I created playlist using create playlist API. After I'm adding track's to this playlist.As a result I got 500 or 503 error
Flow: I created playlist using create playlist API. After I'm adding track's to this playlist. As a result I got 500 or 503 error
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Hello Spotify, I'm working for a car manufacturer and we are working on an application that uses your Android SDK.The main purpose of the application is to play music through your application.Everything is working fine on Android mobile devices but n...
Hello Spotify, I'm working for a car manufacturer and we are working on an application that uses your Android SDK. The main purpose of the application is to play music through your app...
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PlanPremiumCountryUSA DeviceiPhone 11 ProOperating SystemiOS My Question or Issue We are authenticating with the Spotify app but get the following URL callback: smoresapp://spotify-login-callback/?spotify_version=8.7.38.1353#error=invalid_scope This ...
Plan Premium Country USA Device iPhone 11 Pro Operating System iOS My Question or Issue We are authenticating with the Spotify app but get the following URL callback:...
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PlanFree/PremiumCountryAustralia DeviceMacBook Pro (16-inch, 2021)Operating SystemOSX My Question or IssueI am using the web API from React using axios to get player information successfully by calling:https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/playerhttps://api....
Plan Free/Premium Country Australia Device MacBook Pro (16-inch, 2021) Operating System OSX My Question or Issue I am using the web API from React using axios to g...
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PlanPremiumCountryGermanyOperating System(Windows 11) My Question or Issue Hi, I'm using OAuth for my client side app made with Nextjs. I can make requests to the api after authentication with my account but other users cannot and the error is i get ...
Plan Premium Country Germany Operating System (Windows 11) My Question or Issue Hi, I'm using OAuth for my client side app made with Nextjs. I can make requests to the ...
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PlanPremiumCountrySwedenDeviceDesktop PCOperating SystemWindows 10 running Google Chrome My Question or IssueI'm having a hard time fully explaining this issue, but here goes! I'm doing a small hobby project that'll recommend users a random album fro...
Plan Premium Country Sweden Device Desktop PC Operating System Windows 10 running Google Chrome My Question or Issue I'm having a hard time fully explaining this issue, but here goes...
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Plan: FreeCountry: NetherlandsDevice: APII'm using the Spotify API and since about one day the service built on it doesn't work anymore. After some research I figured out that accesstokens are directly invalid. I'm able to obtain an accesstoken with ...
Plan: Free Country: Netherlands Device: API I'm using the Spotify API and since about one day the service built on it doesn't work anymore. After some research I figured out that accesstoke...
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so, i have coded an app using the Spotify api to reward users for streaming music on Spotify. user can be rewarded for any song, no exclusions. when requesting an upgrade to the API (so that i can make the app public) the response was: The Spotify Pl...
so, i have coded an app using the Spotify api to reward users for streaming music on Spotify. user can be rewarded for any song, no exclusions. when requesting an upgrade to the API (so that i can ma...
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Hi Spotify, I have an app where we are making millions of API calls a day and have over 200k active daily users. Who at Spotify can please help me get an enterprise API that has no limits. This is really crucial for us to keep growing. Please if anyo...
Hi Spotify, I have an app where we are making millions of API calls a day and have over 200k active daily users. Who at Spotify can please help me get an enterprise API that has no ...
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I was trying out this endpoint `/me/top/tracks`(https://developer.spotify.com/console/get-current-user-top-artists-and-tracks/) of spotify API. I wanted to know how frequently are these data updated.Are these data updated in real-time whenever the re...
I was trying out this endpoint `/me/top/tracks`(https://developer.spotify.com/console/get-current-user-top-artists-and-tracks/) of spotify API. I wanted to know how frequently are these data upd...
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Hey everyone, thank you for your help!My quota extension request has been "In review" for almost 2 weeks! Whereas usually the status will be either sent or reviewed, meanwhile, an extremely similar App concept has been announced, even taking the name...
Hey everyone, thank you for your help! My quota extension request has been "In review" for almost 2 weeks! Whereas usually the status will be either sent or reviewed, meanwhile, an extremely similar...
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PlanPremiumCountryIndiaDeviceChrome/Firefox LatestOperating SystemUbuntu 22.04 My Question or IssueThe Web Playback SDK has no state event for detecting the track end. Some workarounds are listed in https://github.com/spotify/web-playback-sdk/issues/...
Plan Premium Country India Device Chrome/Firefox Latest Operating System Ubuntu 22.04 My Question or Issue The Web Playback SDK has no state event for detecting the track end. Some w...
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PlanPremium CountryUnited States DeviceMacbook Pro, M1, 2020Operating SystemmacOS Monterey 12.2.1 My Question or IssueMy website plays music through the Web SDK, and until recently that was working well. We have not made any changes to our playback c...
Plan Premium Country United States Device Macbook Pro, M1, 2020 Operating System macOS Monterey 12.2.1 My Question or Issue My website plays music through the...
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PlanPremiumCountrySpainDeviceSmartphone Operating SystemLinuxMy Question or Issue Hey, how are you? I am trying to apply an algorithm to the frames coming from the CDN, because with higher loads of processing I can improve the audio quality experienc...
Plan Premium Country Spain Device Smartphone Operating System Linux My Question or Issue Hey, how are you? I am trying to apply an algorithm to the frames coming...
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