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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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Oncloud

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Request for dataset on number of users

Country United Kingdom My Question or IssueI would like to request a dataset on the number of spotify users per country for everyday of 2017. Usually I would do this via the API however this is currently not possible in the current API. As an example...

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  Country United Kingdom   My Question or Issue I would like to request a dataset on the number of spotify users per country for everyday of 2017. Usually I would do this via the API ho...

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Access artist page information

I am hoping to build a music discovery/listening activity expiration interface, and I would like to be able to directly query information from the artist "about" page-specifically, I want to be able to access the top 5 listening locations that come u...

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I am hoping to build a music discovery/listening activity expiration interface, and I would like to be able to directly query information from the artist "about" page-specifically, I want to be able ...

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[Developer] Charts for podcasts by podcast ID

Hi!My idea is to create an endpoint to return a list with the most listened episodes by the podcast id.

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Hi! My idea is to create an endpoint to return a list with the most listened episodes by the podcast id.  

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Superuser Contribution 3rd Party API Changes?

PlanFree/PremiumCountry Device(iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016)Operating System(iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.) My Question or IssueIs Spotify making is so that 3rd Party music servers have to use 'Connect' or is the API goin...

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Plan Free/Premium Country   Device (iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016) Operating System (iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.)   My Question or Issue Is Spot...

ohej

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Superuser Contribution Only one of user is getting 403

I have a program, which is working for ~4 tester without problems(as in none of them are getting 403) but one of my tester, haven't had the chance to test, because they keep getting 403.A mutual acquaintance has a test application and the tester can ...

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I have a program, which is working for ~4 tester without problems(as in none of them are getting 403) but one of my tester, haven't had the chance to test, because they keep getting 403. A mutual ac...

nicswieweg

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Can I change the language of the response from web api?

PlanPremiumCountryKorea My Question or IssueHi team.As I am a Korean user, I want to get the information in Korean using web api, such as titles and names of artists, and etc, but the api returns only English information. On the Spotify web site for ...

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Plan Premium Country Korea   My Question or Issue Hi team. As I am a Korean user, I want to get the information in Korean using web api, such as titles and names of artists, and etc, but ...

RunFridge

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How can I enable crossfade option for the web player?

PlanPremiumCountryKoreaDeviceChrome, DesktopOperating SystemWindow 10, Mac My Question or IssueHi Team, I bought a license and have been making an application for my own bar. But, I can't find related api for enabling the crossfade function for web p...

Music Fan

Plan Premium Country Korea Device Chrome, Desktop Operating System Window 10, Mac   My Question or Issue Hi Team, I bought a license and have been making an application for my own bar....

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Superuser Contribution Persistent personal access token

Hi folks, Is there a way to generate a persistent access token for my own account -- I'd like to write some automation that runs during a build script for something that pulls some data from my own account. Due to this being an automated build script...

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Hi folks,   Is there a way to generate a persistent access token for my own account -- I'd like to write some automation that runs during a build script for something that pulls some data from...

ohej

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[Desktop][Developer] Add functionality to osascript

I'm working on being able to control spotify local with the osascript api and I've found it really useful and fun, but it's missing very necessary functionality to actually use. Nothing like the web api, but simply being able to control your queue wo...

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I'm working on being able to control spotify local with the osascript api and I've found it really useful and fun, but it's missing very necessary functionality to actually use. Nothing like the web ...

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Get Several Browse Categories returning Chinese in response

My Question or IssueHi, I made a call to the Get Several Browse Categories API and the category names are Chinese in the response. It was working fine until a while ago, so I'm not sure why it's suddenly coming like this. I'm from India by the way. 

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  My Question or Issue Hi, I made a call to the Get Several Browse Categories API and the category names are Chinese in the response. It was working fine until a while ago, so I'm not sure why...

Hubo

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Superuser Contribution Intermittent 404s Getting Playlist Tracks via API

Starting about two days ago, I began to see intermittent 404s when getting playlist tracks via the Spotify API (https://api.spotify.com/v1/playlists/*/tracks). I have seen this when iterating over large playlists via the offset and limit parameters, ...

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Starting about two days ago, I began to see intermittent 404s when getting playlist tracks via the Spotify API (https://api.spotify.com/v1/playlists/*/tracks).  I have seen this when iterating o...

DisappointedUser1

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Superuser Contribution Keep getting 415 ('Unsupported Media Type') when trying to refresh and access token.

Hi all,Anyone dealt with a 415 response- error when trying to refresh and access token? See attached file to see code.

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Hi all, Anyone dealt with a 415 response- error when trying to refresh and access token?  See attached file to see code.   

serahrono

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CORS Policy Error Playlist Image Cover Set

I have been unable to use the set playlist image cover api. I am creating a web app and using next js and have been able to get this to work. I consistently get a has been blocked by CORS policy: No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on ...

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I have been unable to use the set playlist image cover api. I am creating a web app and using next js and have been able to get this to work. I consistently get a has been blocked by CORS policy...

rishisheth

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Getting playlist items randomly fails with 404 Not Found

PlanPremiumCountryRU My Question or IssueI'm using https://github.com/thelinmichael/spotify-web-api-node to deal with Spotify API. My app has all the required scope permissions. Without any changes in my code I noticed that recently it started to fai...

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Plan Premium Country RU   My Question or Issue I'm using https://github.com/thelinmichael/spotify-web-api-node to deal with Spotify API. My app has all the required scope permissions. &nb...

Wanderlust_Pilgrim33

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Get list of all genres/top genres?

Trying to understand how to get a list of all the available Spotify genres while using the "Get Available Genre Seeds" endpoint. Any suggestions? Furthermore, is there a way to get the top 50 Spotify genres?

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Trying to understand how to get a list of all the available Spotify genres while using the "Get Available Genre Seeds" endpoint. Any suggestions?   Furthermore, is there a way to get the top 5...

Ximzend

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Podcast API to submit automatically

Hello, Does Spotify have or plan to have a podcast show publishing API? Automatically like others platforms. Thanks, Best,

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Hello,   Does Spotify have or plan to have a podcast show publishing API? Automatically like others platforms.   Thanks,   Best,

Riad_Alkhateeb

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Superuser Contribution GET /v1/me/top/tracks 403 Error

Operating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueMy app is currently in development mode. I'm using the client credentials OAuth flow. I've already set up my dashboard, registered my app, gotten my client id and client secret. I am trying to get my top...

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Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue My app is currently in development mode. I'm using the client credentials OAuth flow. I've already set up my dashboard, registered my app, ...

ohej

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Solved!!Superuser Contribution Update endpoint for lyrics

Plan: PremiumCountry: IT Hi support. I'm trying to make a personal device that show current song lyrics. The problem is with your api that don't give developer access to this endpoint.Even when i found an endpoint for the lyrics it return error 403 s...

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Plan: Premium Country: IT   Hi support. I'm trying to make a personal device that show current song lyrics. The problem is with your api that don't give developer access to this endpoint...

ohej

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Context is null on recently played tracks requests from Spotify API

Background Info:Spotify tracks the location/context of where songs are played within Spotify and we can access that information via the recently played api:```GET me/player/recently-played```So if you play a stream from a playlist in Spotify your con...

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Background Info: Spotify tracks the location/context of where songs are played within Spotify and we can access that information via the recently played api: ``` GET me/player/recently-played ```...

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Contact for asking legal questions about the Developer Terms

Where would one ask questions about the legal aspects of developing an SDA? Many people, including me, have asked questions about compliance with developer terms here. Hardly anybody gets an answer. No worries, I get that this forum is mainly for tec...

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Where would one ask questions about the legal aspects of developing an SDA?   Many people, including me, have asked questions about compliance with developer terms here. Hardly anybody gets an...

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