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Updating the Criteria for Web API Extended Access

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...

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I want to get as a JSON file the contents of my Spotify library, mainly liked songs and playlists. Spotify's web API provides that, but I am not experienced with web applications.However I am experienced with Python, and I try to implement what the S...

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I want to get as a JSON file the contents of my Spotify library, mainly liked songs and playlists. Spotify's web API provides that, but I am not experienced with web applications. However I am exper...

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https://api.spotify.com/v1/playlists endpoint for algotorial playlist pool

Hi Spotify team and community, I was wondering whether it is possible to query the record pool that is behind semi-curated-algotorial, also called algotorial, playlists such as Easy On Sunday. Currently, the https://api.spotify.com/v1/playlists endpo...

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Hi Spotify team and community,   I was wondering whether it is possible to query the record pool that is behind semi-curated-algotorial, also called algotorial, playlists such as Easy On Sunda...

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Quota Extension

I want to know that what information spotify wants about scopes in quota extension request?

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I want to know that what information spotify wants about scopes in quota extension request?

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GET request for top tracks returns an empty string

So I've been trying to fetch my top songs with the code below, but the get request is returning an empty string. What exactly am I doing wrong?-----------------------------------------import jsonimport requestsCLIENT_ID = 'xxxxx'CLIENT_SECRET = 'xxxx...

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So I've been trying to fetch my top songs with the code below, but the get request is returning an empty string. What exactly am I doing wrong? ----------------------------------------- import jso...

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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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Developer Policy compliance for Non-Streaming SDA aggregating data from different platforms

Hi everyone! Would a Non-Streaming SDA that aggregates and analyzes user-specific usage data from different platforms be compliant with the Developer Policy? We are concerned about Section III.5 & III.13 What we plan:Our product matches users based o...

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Hi everyone!   Would a Non-Streaming SDA that aggregates and analyzes user-specific usage data from different platforms be compliant with the Developer Policy? We are concerned about Section I...

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Superuser Contribution Search via UPC not working

My Question or Issue:I am doing some discovery on your 'https://developer.spotify.com/console/get-search-item/' endpoint and am having issues when searching via 'upc'. I've tried several variations of the following with no luckhttps://api.spotify.com...

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My Question or Issue: I am doing some discovery on your 'https://developer.spotify.com/console/get-search-item/' endpoint and am having issues when searching via 'upc'.   I've tried seve...

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Would software that automatically skips part of Spotify songs be allowed?

Would software that automatically skips part of Spotify songs be allowed?Say, for example, that I want a specific part of a Spotify song to be skipped every time it comes on.Would software that does this for me be allowed by the Spotify developer ter...

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Would software that automatically skips part of Spotify songs be allowed? Say, for example, that I want a specific part of a Spotify song to be skipped every time it comes on. Would software that d...

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Superuser Contribution Cannot Transfer Playback - Descriptor ID?

Plan: PremiumCountry: United StatesDevice: Macbook ProOperating System: MojaveBrowser: Chrome My Question or IssueI cannot transfer playback to my web app. This used to work just fine, but is throwing a new error I haven't seen before. I'm able to cr...

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Plan: Premium Country: United States Device: Macbook Pro Operating System: Mojave Browser: Chrome   My Question or Issue I cannot transfer playback to my web app. This used to work j...

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My API Wrapper was reported for infringing on Spotify's IP. Don't know who to contact!

I'm unsure who to contact in this case, but I wrote an object-oriented Spotify API wrapper a couple of years ago and put it open source on NPM. https://www.npmjs.com/package/enhanced-spotify-api I made a website for the documentation and was hosting ...

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I'm unsure who to contact in this case, but I wrote an object-oriented Spotify API wrapper a couple of years ago and put it open source on NPM.    https://www.npmjs.com/package/enhanced-s...

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Find Specific Feedback on Quota Extension Request

Hello! I'm a developer out of Austin, Texas and over the last two years I've been building out a full-stack web application that integrates with Spotify's API and Web Playback SDK that I'm just launching. Now that I'm working on onboarding new users,...

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Hello! I'm a developer out of Austin, Texas and over the last two years I've been building out a full-stack web application that integrates with Spotify's API and Web Playback SDK that I'm just launc...

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Login issue with iOS SDK

Hey folks, I'm having an issue implementing the iOS Spotify SDK, my objective is to get the user’s spotifyAccessToken and spotifyRefreshToken, as it is now is partially working, if the user log in using the web browser everything works well, but when...

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Hey folks, I'm having an issue implementing the iOS Spotify SDK, my objective is to get the user’s spotifyAccessToken and spotifyRefreshToken, as it is now is partially working, if the user log in us...

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Superuser Contribution Publishing Web API data in academic papers

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...

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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 ...

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Acousticness and Instrumentalness fooled by Harpsichord

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...

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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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Superuser Contribution Returning "Invalid Client" in Authentication last step to generate access token

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...

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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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Superuser Contribution How to access "mood" labels of tracks?

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...

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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 ...

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Solved!!Superuser Contribution Development of native app with playback in background

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....

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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 ...

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How to inform the end users about what type of app they are authenticating to?

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...

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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 ...

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