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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...
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...
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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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My Question or IssueI have been reading through the Widget Terms of Use and have some queries around some of the language used: "Section III: Licenses and Permissions3. 3. License to Spotify. You grant to us a paid-up, royalty-free, non-exclusive, wo...
My Question or Issue I have been reading through the Widget Terms of Use and have some queries around some of the language used: "Section III: Licenses and Permissions 3. 3. License to Spo...
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I'm not a developer, but in order to find a track I've heard on Spotify I've decided to search for it with Python + Spotipy. track = "Thursday" results = sp.search(q="track:" + track, type="track") So far so good. However, that JSON doesn't return th...
I'm not a developer, but in order to find a track I've heard on Spotify I've decided to search for it with Python + Spotipy. track = "Thursday" results = sp.search(q=...
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PlanPremiumCountryNorwayOperating SystemWindows and Ubuntu 18 My Question or IssueHi! I am delivering a master thesis on music recommendation based on content-based filtering. In that sense I am required to use the spotify api to both get audio featu...
Plan Premium Country Norway Operating System Windows and Ubuntu 18 My Question or Issue Hi! I am delivering a master thesis on music recommendation based on content-based filtering. In...
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PlanPremiumCountryArgentinaDevice(iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016)Operating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueI'm trying to make a GET request to the Spotify Web API for a track using simple JavaScript (I don't know curl), but it...
Plan Premium Country Argentina Device (iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016) Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue I'm trying to make a GET request to the Spo...
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I'm making a react-native app with the Spotify API, I'm using the Authorization Code Flow & and I'm on Development mode with only one user added in "Users and access" on my Spotify dashboard: my tester, who is a part of my Spotify Premium Duo. The ap...
I'm making a react-native app with the Spotify API, I'm using the Authorization Code Flow & and I'm on Development mode with only one user added in "Users and access...
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I've been trying to get some tracks' genres. I already know the genres are available under a track's album, but when I try to get the genres of the album, I only get an empty array in JSON (example below). {'album_type': 'album', 'artists': [{'extern...
I've been trying to get some tracks' genres. I already know the genres are available under a track's album, but when I try to get the genres of the album, I only get an empty array in JSON (example b...
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I would like to search for items not within Spotify's global universe of items, but rather only within the context of a given playlist. While I could implement a search myself if I had access to all items of a playlist at once, it would require me to...
I would like to search for items not within Spotify's global universe of items, but rather only within the context of a given playlist. While I could implement a search myself if I had acces...
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https://developer.spotify.com/console/get-users-available-devices/I want do discover my Chromecast and nest home but they wont show up unless already playing music. how would I go around this and make them available without having to start playback t...
https://developer.spotify.com/console/get-users-available-devices/ I want do discover my Chromecast and nest home but they wont show up unless already playing music. how would I go around this and m...
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When trying to fetch artist's top track or albums I'm trying to use the /artists/id/albums and /artists/id/top-tracks endpoints. In the documentation for /artists/id/albums it states that we can provide limit value so that only a number of albums wil...
When trying to fetch artist's top track or albums I'm trying to use the /artists/id/albums and /artists/id/top-tracks endpoints. In the documentation for /artists/id/albums i...
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I just want to pull metadata from songs via the Spotify Web API. Is it possible to do this for commercial purposes?
I just want to pull metadata from songs via the Spotify Web API. Is it possible to do this for commercial purposes?
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Hi, this is ANNMS from https://www.annmsmusic.com/I have a question about the play count. Recently Wix has released a new app for Spotify, which, unlike the standard embed which can play max 15 seconds, can play the entire soundtrack.My question is, ...
Hi, this is ANNMS from https://www.annmsmusic.com/ I have a question about the play count. Recently Wix has released a new app for Spotify, which, unlike the standard embed which can play max 15 s...
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PlanPremiumCountryUnited States I represent an organization [unnamed at the moment] that plans on integrating spotify's APIs for their events. I wanted to ask a few questions while scouting the APIs to make sure I have the legalities in order. I have...
Plan Premium Country United States I represent an organization [unnamed at the moment] that plans on integrating spotify's APIs for their events. I wanted to ask a few questions w...
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We are making an app where user can search for all albums, tracks and artists on Spotify. The Spotify search API does not provide any endpoint to get all albums or artists present in its stock, so we make use of the search end point to query albums t...
We are making an app where user can search for all albums, tracks and artists on Spotify. The Spotify search API does not provide any endpoint to get all albums or artists present in its stock, so we...
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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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