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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...
CountryIndiaMy Question or IssueHi, I am a student trying to build a small song recommendation project for my college. How can I get the authentic song dataset using the API?
Country India My Question or Issue Hi, I am a student trying to build a small song recommendation project for my college. How can I get the authentic song dataset using the API?
Spotify Star
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Yall should get rid of Spotify previews and add the HOLL song it is just so easer for everyone.
Yall should get rid of Spotify previews and add the HOLL song it is just so easer for everyone.
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PlanFreeCountrySwedenDeviceWeb APIOperating SystemUbuntu Linux My Question or IssueI'm writing a chat bot that observes a collaborative playlist and posts about updates. To keep the user experience good and interactive, the bot needs to know when the...
Plan Free Country Sweden Device Web API Operating System Ubuntu Linux My Question or Issue I'm writing a chat bot that observes a collaborative playlist and posts about updates. To k...
Spotify Star
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Hey all — I’m building a native iOS app that connects to the Spotify Web API to display audiobook metadata for books users already have saved in their library. We’ve implemented a hydration manager to avoid redundant API calls, but we’re still encoun...
Hey all — I’m building a native iOS app that connects to the Spotify Web API to display audiobook metadata for books users already have saved in their library. We’ve implemented a hydration manager t...
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PlanFreeCountryUSDeviceWeb API Spotify Page I am using the WEB API for developers using search by UPC: 889176232909 no longer takes information. It used to work 3 days ago. I got an error no response with this seaerch query=upc%3A889176232909&type=al...
Plan Free Country US Device Web API Spotify Page I am using the WEB API for developers using search by UPC: 889176232909 no longer takes information. It used to work 3 days ago. &...
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Hello everyone, I’m Héctor Pérez Ledesma, and I’ve watched in disbelief as Spotify’s latest Web API changes rolled out on May 15th—changes that feel less like responsible stewardship and more like a bulldozer running over the very community that made...
Hello everyone, I’m Héctor Pérez Ledesma, and I’ve watched in disbelief as Spotify’s latest Web API changes rolled out on May 15th—changes that feel less like responsible stewardship and mor...
Music Fan
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Hi Spotify Dev Support,I am in the US using a personal Premium Spotify account. I created an app in the developer dashboard, set up correct redirect URIs, deleted all .cache files, and authorized with multiple tester accounts in development mode. No ...
Hi Spotify Dev Support, I am in the US using a personal Premium Spotify account. I created an app in the developer dashboard, set up correct redirect URIs, deleted all .cache files, and authorized w...
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My Question or IssueAggregated reports endpoint behaves weirdly when the report_start and report_end are exactly 90 days apart and the granularity is set to LIFETIME. API v2 returns 'Invalid argument' error message, and API v3 returns "Unknown intern...
My Question or Issue Aggregated reports endpoint behaves weirdly when the report_start and report_end are exactly 90 days apart and the granularity is set to LIFETIME. API v2 returns 'Invalid argume...
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I'm using the web api to provide updates to a chat when songs are added or removed to a specific playlist. Today, I am polling every few minutes to look for any changes in the playlist. Is there any api to get a delta either by polling or by a hook?I...
I'm using the web api to provide updates to a chat when songs are added or removed to a specific playlist. Today, I am polling every few minutes to look for any changes in the playlist. Is there any ...
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PlanPremiumCountryUSDeviceBrowser (Chrome)Operating SystemIOS My Question or IssueI'm trying to call up the web playback sdk to play songs in the browser. Following the guidance I created an access token with the following scopes (streaming user-read...
Plan Premium Country US Device Browser (Chrome) Operating System IOS My Question or Issue I'm trying to call up the web playback sdk to play songs in the browser. Following the guida...
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Discovered an issue where the snapshot_id is not updated for the endpoint https://api.spotify.com/v1/users/{user_id}/playlists When fetching my Discovered Weekly playlist and comparing it to the cached one, they have the same snapshot_id, but when lo...
Discovered an issue where the snapshot_id is not updated for the endpoint https://api.spotify.com/v1/users/{user_id}/playlists When fetching my Discovered Weekly playlist and comparing it to...
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Planfree/PremiumCountry Deviceios/androidOperating Systemwindows My Question or IssueA way to add an iframe on mobile app?I'm developing a mobile app with angular ionic and i just want to show a podcast on an individual page, full screen but I'm not ...
Plan free/Premium Country Device ios/android Operating System windows My Question or Issue A way to add an iframe on mobile app? I'm developing a mobile app with angu...
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Being a premium user I should be able to view all music releases. For a while now this has been switched to hand-picked releases that restricts what releases are available. PlanPremiumCountryAustralia DeviceMobile AppOperating SystemiOS , Android
Being a premium user I should be able to view all music releases. For a while now this has been switched to hand-picked releases that restricts what releases are available. Plan Premium Cou...
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PlanPremiumCountry Device(Macbook Pro 2021)Operating System(MacOS Sequoia 15.3) My Question or IssueHi Spotify Dev Team and Community,I'm currently working on a music discovery project using the Spotify Web API and have run into a persistent issue wi...
Plan Premium Country Device (Macbook Pro 2021) Operating System (MacOS Sequoia 15.3) My Question or Issue Hi Spotify Dev Team and Community, I'm currently working on a music ...
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When trying to use the authoriztion flow outlined in the docs, I navigate to:https://accounts.spotify.com/authorize?response_type=code&client_id=[MY_CLIENT_ID]&scope=user-read-private+user-modify-playback-state+streaming+playlist-read-prrivate+user-r...
When trying to use the authoriztion flow outlined in the docs, I navigate to: https://accounts.spotify.com/authorize?response_type=code&client_id=[MY_CLIENT_ID]&scope=user-read-private+user-...
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PlanPremiumCountry: USA Device(Macbook Pro 1st Gen M1)Operating System(MacOS Ventura 13.0.1) My Question or Issue I am trying to write a python script that just scrapes other users' playlists and adds songs in them to my own playlist. When running th...
Plan Premium Country: USA Device (Macbook Pro 1st Gen M1) Operating System (MacOS Ventura 13.0.1) My Question or Issue I am trying to write a python script that just s...
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Title: How to get track listener stats via Web API? Hi all,I'm starting a project where I need to display song info, including the track name, artist, and cover art, which I can see how to get from the track object in the API. My main question is abo...
Title: How to get track listener stats via Web API? Hi all, I'm starting a project where I need to display song info, including the track name, artist, and cover art, which I can see how to...
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My app is randomly receiving Forbidden errors while trying to add songs to a playlist, claiming I have insufficient client scope. However, not only do I have all the client scopes required for that operation, it also doesn't happen consistently! It c...
My app is randomly receiving Forbidden errors while trying to add songs to a playlist, claiming I have insufficient client scope. However, not only do I have all the client scopes required for that o...
Roadie
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We're suddenly (as of this morning) finding that "next" field is in all cases coming back nil on the "Get Playlist" endpoint. Obviously a major issue on any playlist > 100 tracks. Can someone please acknowledge whether this is known about?
We're suddenly (as of this morning) finding that "next" field is in all cases coming back nil on the "Get Playlist" endpoint. Obviously a major issue on any playlist > 100 tracks. Can som...
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what are these changes to quota extension. does this mean, no space for new developers and creators? by this update, it seems the API is just available for the organizations with millions of traffic who can promote Spotify.creative and new creators? ...
what are these changes to quota extension. does this mean, no space for new developers and creators? by this update, it seems the API is just available for the organizations with millions of traffic ...
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