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February 2026 Spotify for Developers update: thread

Hey everyone, I’ve created this thread to provide an open space for discussion, feedback, concerns or ideas on an upcoming update to Spotify for Developers access. We’ve shared a blog post that explains what’s changing and why. Please use this thread...

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Authorization view not showing

PlanFree/PremiumCountry: US Device(Pixel 6, Samsung Galaxy 9, Hawei)Operating System(Android.) My Question or Issue After months of smooth authentication, I have suddenly been getting the following exception when I try to connect to remote app : {"me...

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Plan Free/Premium Country: US   Device (Pixel 6, Samsung Galaxy 9,  Hawei) Operating System (Android.)   My Question or Issue   After months of smooth authentication, I...

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Feature request for all listening history data

I'm working on a platform, and I'd like to express my desire for a development toolkit for viewing all information regarding a user's listening history. I understand everyone's busy. I also understand this feature is already being looked into by the ...

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I'm working on a platform, and I'd like to express my desire for a development toolkit for viewing all information regarding a user's listening history. I understand everyone's busy. I also understan...

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/tracks/ids documentation doesn't match the JSON response

I don't know if this is the correct way to report a bug, I am sorry. When I submit a GET request to /tracks/ids, I receive the following output: "artists": [ { "external_urls": { "spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/artist/0k17h0D3J5VfsdmQ1iZtE9" }, ...

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I don't know if this is the correct way to report a bug, I am sorry.   When I submit a GET request to /tracks/ids, I receive the following output: "artists": [ { "externa...

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Option for converting the lyrics of the songs from indigenous language to English and others.

PlanFree/PremiumCountry Device(iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016)Operating System(iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.) My Question or Issue

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Rejection for our Spotify App not clear

The Spotify Platform can not be used to artificially increase play counts, follow counts or to otherwise manipulate the Spotify Service. For example by providing any form of compensation (financial or otherwise) to usersOur app does not compensate us...

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The Spotify Platform can not be used to artificially increase play counts, follow counts or to otherwise manipulate the Spotify Service. For example by providing any form of compensation (financial o...

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Get Tracks' Audio Features

PlanFree/PremiumCountry Device(iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016)Operating System(iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.) My Question or Issue Is there a list somewhere that compiles tracks with certain feature values? For example, if ...

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[API] No way to search tag:new with genre

Hello,I don’t believe there is any current, possible way to search for new or low-popularity albums by genre (tag:new, tag:hipster). This is a feature that I believe the API really needs. It doesn’t really seem to make sense to search for new albums ...

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Hello, I don’t believe there is any current, possible way to search for new or low-popularity albums by genre (tag:new, tag:hipster). This is a feature that I believe the API really needs.  ...

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Solved!! Receiving a 'Only valid bearer authentication supported' 400 error

When making an API call to https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/top/, I am unable to receive the user's top results and get a 400 error. When making an API call to https://api.spotify.com/v1/search, I am able to receive values searched.Can anyone see the di...

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When making an API call to  https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/top/, I am unable to receive the user's top results and get a 400 error.  When making an API call to  https://api.s...

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• Generate playlists based on existing playlists but with the maximum of ten thousand titles.

Plan Free and PremiumCountry Device(All/Any)Operating System(All/any) My Question or IssueIs it possible to create generate playlists based on existing playlists but with the (maximum of ten thousand/or preferred number of) titles?By providing a link...

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Plan  Free and Premium Country   Device (All/Any) Operating System (All/any)   My Question or Issue Is it possible to create generate playlists based on existing playlists bu...

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(partly) (auto) generate Playlist.
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Solved!! Invalid refresh token

PlanPremiumCountryUADevicePCOperating SystemWindows 11 My Question or IssueHello, trying to do an automatic access token refresh, but for some reason when I do, the query returns an error to me: {"error": "invalid_grant", "error_description": "Invali...

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Plan Premium Country UA Device PC Operating System Windows 11   My Question or Issue Hello, trying to do an automatic access token refresh, but for some reason when I do, the query ret...

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Playlists are duplicating and queue keeps changing

PlanPremiumCountryUSDevice(Samsung G10Operating SystemAndroid I've noticed my Playlists are only playing a few songs in the queue and songs are duplicating multiple times. When I set the queue, the songs that play are not what I set. Then I get more ...

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  Plan Premium Country US Device (Samsung G10 Operating System Android     I've noticed my Playlists are only playing a few songs in the queue and songs are duplicating mult...

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Solved!! 400 response for playlist creation

PlanPremiumCountryUSDeviceDesktopOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueSo when doing a post call to create a playlist, I received a 400 error. However I have the token set up correctly for the user, and I have the correct fetch'https://api.s...

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Plan Premium Country US Device Desktop Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue So when doing a post call to create a playlist, I received a 400 error. However I have the tok...

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Remote-Group-Session only add songs to que

PlanPremium/FamilyCountryGermanyDeviceSamsung Galaxy 10Operating SystemAndroid 12 My Question or IssueI would love to see a feature where I can manage the privileges of different people or the whole Remote-Groupe-Session to only be able to put songs ...

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Plan Premium/Family Country Germany Device Samsung Galaxy 10 Operating System Android 12   My Question or Issue I would love to see a feature where I can manage the privileges of diffe...

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Is there a way to set Spotify player to stop when listening Voice message?

The player is automatically set to lower the volume of a track when listening to voice messages but I wish it would stop because it is very annoying to listen to two things at the same time. Is there a trick?

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The player is automatically set to lower the volume of a track when listening to voice messages but I wish it would stop because it is very annoying to listen to two things at the same time. Is there...

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Episode playback with me/player/play

The Spotify Web API currently cannot play episodes with the /me/player/play endpoint! You would usually pass in a context object which itself contains a uri for the resource you want to play back, but the API hasn't implemented the functionality for ...

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The Spotify Web API currently cannot play episodes with the /me/player/play endpoint!   You would usually pass in a context object which itself contains a uri for the resource you want to play...

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my app is logged in my personal account, how to log out the app

i created an app using the dashboard and i'm trying to use it using Spotipy (in Python),but the app is logged in as my personal account. When i use the current_user() method, it shows my profile (whereas i used the client id and client secret from th...

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i created an app using the dashboard and i'm trying to use it using Spotipy (in Python), but the app is logged in as my personal account. When i use the current_user() method, it shows my profile (w...

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Quota Extension accepted but I still need to add users manually

My Quota extension request has been accepted but when users tried login in, it still doesn't work, I checked my spotify app developer dashboard and it's still under review, do I still have to wait? It's been over 10 hours since I got the mail that it...

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My Quota extension request has been accepted but when users tried login in, it still doesn't work, I checked my spotify app developer dashboard and it's still under review, do I still have to wait? I...

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Unable to connect to developer.spotify.com

PlanPremiumCountryPhilippinesDeviceDesktopOperating SystemArch Linux on 6.1.1-zen1-1-zen My Question or IssueI'm trying to access the Spotify Dashboard at https://developer.spotify.com/dashboard/applications so I can get a Spotify Web API key to use ...

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Plan Premium Country Philippines Device Desktop Operating System Arch Linux on 6.1.1-zen1-1-zen   My Question or Issue I'm trying to access the Spotify Dashboard at https://developer.s...

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Download and use Spotify Song Through Spotify api OR iOS SDK Swift

PlanFree/PremiumCountry Device(iPhone 13, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016) My Question or IssueI am developing an iPhone application with integrating Spotify SDK. Is there any way I can download the Spotify song through any Spotify Api or any...

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Plan Free/Premium Country   Device (iPhone 13, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016)   My Question or Issue I am developing an iPhone application with integrating Spotify SDK. Is...

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Features idea

I have a fantastic idea that will blow your mind and that will increase about 50 billion let me give you example it's seasonal group hope your company interested and contact me directly. Let me give advertising idea for fun advertising Alcohol is dan...

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I have a fantastic idea that will blow your mind and that will increase about 50 billion let me give you example it's seasonal group hope your company interested and contact me directly. Let me give ...

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