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Discuss building apps with Spotify APIs and SDKs
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...
i got a token by making a post request using the client credentials and{ 'grant_type':'client_credentials','scope': 'user-read-recently-played'} in header. as data for that post request. But when i use this token to get recently played tracks- https:...
i got a token by making a post request using the client credentials and { 'grant_type':'client_credentials', 'scope': 'user-read-recently-played'} in header. as data for that post request. ...
Spotify Star
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My Question or Issue I have made a Spotify clone with react integrated with the Spotify Api. The app only has a client side I have deployed the app to netlify. Upon pressing the login button on the homepage, the get request is sent to the API to auth...
My Question or Issue I have made a Spotify clone with react integrated with the Spotify Api. The app only has a client side I have deployed the app to netlify. Upon pressing the log...
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I am currently building a web application that uses the spotify web API and the web playback SDK. Part of this application is a frontend-side playlist (not spotify playlists). For this I react on 'player_state_changed' events to play the next track i...
I am currently building a web application that uses the spotify web API and the web playback SDK. Part of this application is a frontend-side playlist (not spotify playlists). For this I react on 'pl...
Music Fan
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PlanFree/PremiumCountryUSMy Question or Issue I'm working on a streaming application using the Spotify Web Player API. I'm running into an issue where accounts from the UK and Japan (and possibly anywhere outside US) cannot play tracks. If these memb...
Plan Free/Premium Country US My Question or Issue I'm working on a streaming application using the Spotify Web Player API. I'm running into an issue where accounts from the UK and Japan ...
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My application has been running successfully for weeks now, but randomly this morning it began throwing out this error when attempting to pull top songs from authenticated usersHTTP Error for GET to https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/top/tracks with Param...
My application has been running successfully for weeks now, but randomly this morning it began throwing out this error when attempting to pull top songs from authenticated users HTTP Error for ...
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Hi, I just noticed that the Search endpoint is not returning the same results as of yesterday. For example if I used this query before: ```track:Electric Fling artist:Stefano Breda``` it would respond with like 20 items similar to that search [amongs...
Hi, I just noticed that the Search endpoint is not returning the same results as of yesterday. For example if I used this query before: ```track:Electric Fling artist:Stefano Bred...
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PlanPremiumCountryUSDeviceHomeAssistant VM initiating playback to Google Home MiniOperating SystemLinux My Question or IssueI have been having an issue with initiating playback of the Discover Weekly Playlist from HomeAssistant. I finally narrowed th...
Plan Premium Country US Device HomeAssistant VM initiating playback to Google Home Mini Operating System Linux My Question or Issue I have been having an issue with initiating playba...
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When I send post-request /playlists/{playlist_id}/tracks via Google Apps Script Platform, occurs 500 or 502 errors with description: something went wrong or bad gateway. My application works correct in 2 years and dont changes in this part. But last ...
When I send post-request /playlists/{playlist_id}/tracks via Google Apps Script Platform, occurs 500 or 502 errors with description: something went wrong or bad gateway. My applica...
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PlanAPICountryNLDevice-Operating System- My Question or IssueAs of today the following request wil result in:Query: artist:"Joseph Haydn"+track:"Die Jahreszeiten (The Seasons), Hob.XXI:3: Der Sommer (Summer): Ach! das Ungewitter naht (Chorus)"https:/...
Plan API Country NL Device - Operating System - My Question or Issue As of today the following request wil result in: Query: artist:"Joseph Haydn"+track:"Die Jahreszeiten (The ...
Gig Goer
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I believe that there has been a regression in the way that the SPTAppRemotePlayerAPI.play method is handled. Previously it behaved just like the Web API variant, in that invoking it would clear the queue in addition to playing the requested track.As ...
I believe that there has been a regression in the way that the SPTAppRemotePlayerAPI.play method is handled. Previously it behaved just like the Web API variant, in that invoking it would clea...
Roadie
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I'm a university student. I want to use the data of the Spotify Web API (only audio features and analysis data of the tracks, not user data) for my research and graduation thesis.I don't use this commercially. How do I have to write about the citatio...
I'm a university student. I want to use the data of the Spotify Web API (only audio features and analysis data of the tracks, not user data) for my research and graduation thesis. I don't use this c...
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Hi, In my iOS application I am login user through SPTSessionManager and saving the given accessToken, refreshToken and expiration date. Later I refresh the access token 5 mins before the expiration. I want to play tracks using SPTAudioStreamingContro...
Hi, In my iOS application I am login user through SPTSessionManager and saving the given accessToken, refreshToken and expiration date. Later I refresh the access token 5 mins before the expir...
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My Question or IssueDoes the timestamp played_at refer to the time the track started playing, the time it finished playing or other? The documentation for this api call is unfortunately quite incomplete, it doesn't even say what it returns (ok it say...
My Question or Issue Does the timestamp played_at refer to the time the track started playing, the time it finished playing or other? The documentation for this api call is unfortunately qu...
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Hello, I'm not a pro developer but am skilled enough to be running API calls to collect ISRC codes for tracklists for a community-based online radio station. I've gotten it all working, requesting a token and running queries with it. My confusion is ...
Hello, I'm not a pro developer but am skilled enough to be running API calls to collect ISRC codes for tracklists for a community-based online radio station. I've gotten it all working...
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PlanPremiumCountryGB DeviceIt's dev APIOperating SystemN/A My Question or IssueLast 2-3 days I started observing a strange behaviour - I'm requesting all the saved tracks for a user and for some of requests the API returns an empty result even though...
Plan Premium Country GB Device It's dev API Operating System N/A My Question or Issue Last 2-3 days I started observing a strange behaviour - I'm requesting all the saved tra...
Newbie
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Hi, I'm trying to use the web API to search for songs and it seems like when I have some special characters in the search parameters it fails to find any songs. A very simple example of this is:```track:I'll Call You Mine artist:girl in red album:if ...
Hi, I'm trying to use the web API to search for songs and it seems like when I have some special characters in the search parameters it fails to find any songs. A very simple exampl...
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PlanPremiumCountryChileServiceSpotify Web API My Question or IssueI am trying to retrive search results using https://api.spotify.com/v1/search but it is not responding since this afternoon.
Plan Premium Country Chile Service Spotify Web API My Question or Issue I am trying to retrive search results using https://api.spotify.com/v1/search but it is not respo...
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Hi, I've found that the Authorization header doesn't follow the HTTP spec (https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7235#section-2.1). The spec says the scheme can be case insensitve, however Spotify's API expects it to be case-sensitive, that is, it...
Hi, I've found that the Authorization header doesn't follow the HTTP spec (https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7235#section-2.1). The spec says the scheme can be case insensitve, howeve...
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Is there a way that I can play back audio on a landing page using the SDK without it mirroring what's on my account? I'm really just looking to populate audio data and play audio content on the page using both the API and the SDK
Is there a way that I can play back audio on a landing page using the SDK without it mirroring what's on my account? I'm really just looking to populate audio data and play audio content on the page...
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Hi there,I’m developing an app that uses the Spotify Developer API. I wanted to ask about rough rate limits, as well as make a special request regarding monetising my app whilst using certain API endpoints.My app is a running app, designed to help yo...
Hi there, I’m developing an app that uses the Spotify Developer API. I wanted to ask about rough rate limits, as well as make a special request regarding monetising my app whilst using certain API...
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