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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...
Stopped updating since Friday. Anyone else experiencing this? Any news from the Spotify team?
Stopped updating since Friday. Anyone else experiencing this? Any news from the Spotify team?
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We are a group of students who wrote an academic paper for a project in our bachelor's degree program. It uses data from the Spotify Web API to attempt to classify songs into musical genres based on audio features.The dataset is only comprised of dat...
We are a group of students who wrote an academic paper for a project in our bachelor's degree program. It uses data from the Spotify Web API to attempt to classify songs into musical genres based on ...
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I'm receiving weird values for acousticness and instrumentalness for harpsichord recordings. The two harpsichord tracks : Trevor Pinnock Luc BeauséjourFrom the API:AcousticnessA confidence measure from 0.0 to 1.0 of whether the track is acoustic. 1.0...
I'm receiving weird values for acousticness and instrumentalness for harpsichord recordings. The two harpsichord tracks : Trevor Pinnock Luc Beauséjour From the API: Acoustic...
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PlanFreeCountryIndiaDeviceLenovo ideapad 100Operating SystemWindows 8.1 pro My Question or IssueI always receive this error when I run command to generate access token from authentication steps{error: 'invalid_client', error_description: 'Invalid cli...
Plan Free Country India Device Lenovo ideapad 100 Operating System Windows 8.1 pro My Question or Issue I always receive this error when I run command to generate access token from...
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I have a question regarding the Spotify API: Is it possible to access the "mood" label of a song? On Spotify's Liked Songs, you can sort a song by different labels that range from genre like "pop" or "r&b" to things like "nostalgia" or "chill" or "lo...
I have a question regarding the Spotify API: Is it possible to access the "mood" label of a song? On Spotify's Liked Songs, you can sort a song by different labels that range from genre like ...
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Dear Spotify,we are currently in the prototyping phase of a new app (Android/iOS), which allows the playback of selected playlists/albums/tracks of spotify.To do this job, one can use either the Web Playback SDK or the native SDKs for Android or iOS....
Dear Spotify, we are currently in the prototyping phase of a new app (Android/iOS), which allows the playback of selected playlists/albums/tracks of spotify. To do this job, one can use either the ...
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Hi! My quota extension request was rejected for the following reason and would be interested in clarification: "You need to inform the end users about what type of app they are authenticating to, before they log in to your app." Where is this informa...
Hi! My quota extension request was rejected for the following reason and would be interested in clarification: "You need to inform the end users about what type of app they are ...
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PlanFreeCountryIndiaDeviceLenovo ideapad 100Operating SystemWindows 8.1 pro My Question or IssueCurrently, I'm trying to create access token from command line to use spotify ads api in php. But I'm getting errors like below listed during run authoriz...
Plan Free Country India Device Lenovo ideapad 100 Operating System Windows 8.1 pro My Question or Issue Currently, I'm trying to create access token from command line to use spotify ...
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My Question or IssueI am constanty getting an error "An unexpected packet was received before the handshake." Could this be because spotify has a max amount of requests you are allowed to make or does this have nothing to do with the spotify at all? ...
My Question or Issue I am constanty getting an error "An unexpected packet was received before the handshake." Could this be because spotify has a max amount of requests you are allowed to make or d...
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I have a NodeJS script (attached) to unfollow multiple playlists quickly. It retrieves the playlists of the user, and then unfollows them by ID. However, I obtain lots of 502 server errors when setting a low time between playlists unfollowed (e.g., 1...
I have a NodeJS script (attached) to unfollow multiple playlists quickly. It retrieves the playlists of the user, and then unfollows them by ID. However, I obtain lots of 502 server errors when setti...
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The following API request causes an Internal Server Error (500 status code):PUT https://api.spotify.com/v1/playlists/2NQ82tb1NoHzC2XuKZqnzk/tracks?uris=spotify%3Aplaylist%3A38xxS4lwZuQTnM0OQLNvoa{ "range_start": 0, "snapshot_id": "NDIsMzBjNmMwYzUyNzI...
The following API request causes an Internal Server Error (500 status code): PUT https://api.spotify.com/v1/playlists/2NQ82tb1NoHzC2XuKZqnzk/tracks?uris=spotify%3Aplaylist%3A38xxS4lwZuQTnM0OQLN...
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According to the API documentation, the episode object may contain a property called "restrictions" (plural), but in fact, this property is "restriction" (singular). See screenshot for an example. This mismatch should be documented. Client applicatio...
According to the API documentation, the episode object may contain a property called "restrictions" (plural), but in fact, this property is "restriction" (singular). See screenshot for an example. Th...
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show objects returned in API responses have a total_episodes property, which is not even mentioned in the documentation. I would suggest documenting it, so that developers and end users can leverage it. The definition of the show object that I'm refe...
show objects returned in API responses have a total_episodes property, which is not even mentioned in the documentation. I would suggest documenting it, so that developers and end users can leverage ...
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Sometimes, track objects returned in API responses present two properties, primary_color and video_thumbnail, which are not even mentioned in the documentation. They should be documented, so that end users and developers can leverage them. The defini...
Sometimes, track objects returned in API responses present two properties, primary_color and video_thumbnail, which are not even mentioned in the documentation. They should be documented, s...
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The playlist object does not follow the format specified in the API documentation. The playlist object is defined here:https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/#/operations/get-playlistAt least, the following endpoints are affect...
The playlist object does not follow the format specified in the API documentation. The playlist object is defined here: https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/#/opera...
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Long time listener first time caller here, I am building a web application that I was hoping to enable playback of music via the Spotify Web API. I have read the terms a million times and see the examples provided, which means I can't charge a 5$/mon...
Long time listener first time caller here, I am building a web application that I was hoping to enable playback of music via the Spotify Web API. I have read the terms a million times and se...
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For example, if a user who has purchased a tool that can control playback obtains an API key and assigns that key to a product, will that lead to commercial use?
For example, if a user who has purchased a tool that can control playback obtains an API key and assigns that key to a product, will that lead to commercial use?
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Hi, I'm using the podcast search API (https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/#/operations/search) and noticed that the results only search the podcast episode title and not the episode descriptions. Am I using the API incorrect...
Hi, I'm using the podcast search API (https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/#/operations/search) and noticed that the results only search the podcast episode title an...
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Been working on a Spotify app in React and have an SDK component that acts as a player. It was working all day, now it connects but returns a null state when I call the 'player_state_changed' listener or getCurrentState() method. I tried playing musi...
Been working on a Spotify app in React and have an SDK component that acts as a player. It was working all day, now it connects but returns a null state when I call the 'player_state_changed' listene...
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PlanPremiumCountrySwitzerlandDeviceWindows; Desktop / PCOperating SystemWindows 11 My Question or IssueWhen attempting an oAuth request with Spotify from either a Node JS (using passport and passport-spotify node modules) or C# (using "AspNet.Securit...
Plan Premium Country Switzerland Device Windows; Desktop / PC Operating System Windows 11 My Question or Issue When attempting an oAuth request with Spotify from either a Node JS (us...
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