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Important: App review and quota extension waiting times

The Spotify for developers platform helps many bring their ideas to life. Whether it's a short term app helping an artist’s release or something more long term - there is always a chance of success. Things start to grow and then you might also need w...

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loading=lazy breaks embed iframe

Hi folks, It is now possible for a lot of browsers to load iframes lazy (https://web.dev/iframe-lazy-loading/).I tried this with the spotify embed iframe which kinda breaks it. It is still shown but there is no interaction possible. Getting this erro...

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  • Hi folks,   It is now possible for a lot of browsers to load iframes lazy (https://web.dev/iframe-lazy-loading/). I tried this with the spotify embed iframe which kinda breaks it. It is still...
  • Hubo
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Get recently played issue

The get recently played end-point only includes songs that are played to completion.Songs don't need to be 'played for more than 30 seconds', if you only listen to the final 5 seconds of the song until it finishes it will get added to recently played...

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  • The get recently played end-point only includes songs that are played to completion. Songs don't need to be 'played for more than 30 seconds', if you only listen to the final 5 seconds of the song u...
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Showcase a project

Hi there, I recently created a website that pulls the Spotify API and displays the artist's songs and albums and I wanted to submit it to you guys to see if I could get it posted? It's a tribute website for my favorite artist Juice WRLD so I was hopi...

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  • Hi there, I recently created a website that pulls the Spotify API and displays the artist's songs and albums and I wanted to submit it to you guys to see if I could get it posted?    It's...
  • Hubo
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Song Automatically Stop Playing Randomly iOS

Plan: PremiumCountry: PakistanDevice: iPhone 11, 11 Pro, X & XSMaxOperating System: iOS 13.3 & 14+ Hello Spotify Community, I have Integrated Spotify SPT Audio Streaming SDK in My application. When i Clicked on the Track Song Started Playing but i wa...

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  • Plan: Premium Country: Pakistan Device: iPhone 11, 11 Pro, X & XSMax Operating System: iOS 13.3 & 14+   Hello Spotify Community,   I have Integrated Spotify SPT Audio Streami...
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Cross-Origin Request Blocked: CORS request did not succeed

Hi, I'm currently having an issue where any Spotify API requests I send from client-side JavaScript are resulting in CORS errors. For example, a request to get a user's saved tracks would result in the following error: Cross-Origin Request Blocked: T...

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  • Hi, I'm currently having an issue where any Spotify API requests I send from client-side JavaScript are resulting in CORS errors. For example, a request to get a user's saved tracks would result in t...
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Full song playback with Web API

Hi i am creating a project and was wondering if there is a way to get tracks to play at full length instead of the 30 seconds.

  • Casual Listener
  • Hi i am creating a project and was wondering if there is a way to get tracks to play at full length instead of the 30 seconds.
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Error in postman calling api/token endpoint

Building a collection in postman based off https://blog.postman.com/generate-spotify-playlists-using-a-postman-collection/ Followed all the steps to build this out. Once I run the collection, I get the following error (pasted above). Why am I getting...

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  •   Building a collection in postman based off https://blog.postman.com/generate-spotify-playlists-using-a-postman-collection/   Followed all the steps to build this out. Once I run t...
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Display my user specific data and request user access for web playback?

PlanPremiumCountryUSOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueIs it feasible to have a website that displays my own user specific data (such as my top artists/tracks) but also incorporates the web playback sdk and allows a user (browsing the web...

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  • Plan Premium Country US Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue Is it feasible to have a website that displays my own user specific data (such as my top artists/tracks) but al...
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Bug in time duration display after latest update

PlanPremiumCountry Device Operating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueThere seem to be a bug in the new update with the song duration displaying NaN:NaN on both sides of the song progress bar. This occurred directly of the update today when now so...

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  • Plan Premium Country   Device   Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue There seem to be a bug in the new update with the song duration displaying    &...
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personalization all-time vs long-term

Premium, US lol is it just me or did the get users top tracks/artists: long-term used to return the users top tracks/artist of all-time but now just from the past few years? (i feel like something must have changed because Waving Through a Window was...

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  • Premium, US   lol is it just me or did the get users top tracks/artists: long-term used to return the users top tracks/artist of all-time but now just from the past few years?    (...
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Get Typical Distributions for Audio Features

I am doing a data analysis of my Spotify listening data for 2020. I got the audio features for each track (acousticness, danceability, etc...) and plot the distribution for each feature using seaborn.I would like to compare these distribution plots t...

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  • I am doing a data analysis of my Spotify listening data for 2020. I got the audio features for each track (acousticness, danceability, etc...) and plot the distribution for each feature using seaborn...
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Album Embed not playing correctly

PlanPremiumCountryAustraliaDeviceLaptopOperating SystemWindows 10, Chrome Browser My Question or Issue We have noticed an issue with the album embed affecting users who are logged in with a Spotify Premium account. Occasionally, after the widget has ...

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  • Plan Premium Country Australia Device Laptop Operating System Windows 10, Chrome Browser   My Question or Issue   We have noticed an issue with the album embed affecting users wh...
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Missing songs

PlanPremiumCountryCanadaDeviceiPhone XS MaxOperating SystemiOS 14.4 My Question or IssueSo many of my favourite korean songs/playlists seem not working normal as I see empty titles or missing songs that existed a few days ago and now they're gone bla...

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  • Plan Premium Country Canada Device iPhone XS Max Operating System iOS 14.4   My Question or Issue So many of my favourite korean songs/playlists seem not working normal as I see empty ...
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Risk of exposing app security key on frontend

Hello,I want to use the app private and secret keys on a frontend page to retrieve some playlist data via API.Is there any risk of exposing the app secret key on frontend?If yes - what can somebody do if he knows my secret key?Thanks in advance.

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  • Hello, I want to use the app private and secret keys on a frontend page to retrieve some playlist data via API. Is there any risk of exposing the app secret key on frontend? If yes - what can some...
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I urgently need approval from Spotify to make an app

Some context first: I'm a student doing the IB (international baccalaureate), a part of the computer science course involves building your own program. So my idea, was to make a Spotify trivia game, where the app would take information from Spotify l...

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  • ...ays I can ask for approval.   So Spotify, do I have you're approval? The app will not be a commercial product and will not be distributed anywhere online or publicly, just between me, my t...
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[Bug] Broken Anchor Tag in Web API Reference

https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/ The User API link on the left navigation is broken on the webpage.The link on the navigation pane either needs to be changed to "category-users-profile" or the header's ID needs to be cha...

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  • https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/   The User API link on the left navigation is broken on the webpage. The link on the navigation pane either needs to b...
  • Hubo
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Are recommendations sorted?

PlanPremiumCountryNL My Question or IssueAre the recommendations based on seed song/artist/genre (only, i.e. no other parameters) ordered on relevancy or are they sorted randomly? In the reference documents they state this about the RecommendationsOb...

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  • Plan Premium Country NL   My Question or Issue Are the recommendations based on seed song/artist/genre (only, i.e. no other parameters) ordered on relevancy or are they sorted randoml...
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Commercial License Request

PlanFree/PremiumCountry Device(iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016)Operating System(iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.) My Question or IssueOn December 02,2020, I completed an application for a commercial license from Spotify. I prov...

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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 On Dece...
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follow button developer website down

Hey there!I am trying to develop a follow button that's linked to my Spotify profile. The Developer website that should be able to do it (https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/widgets/generate/follow-button/) is just loading a black screen for ...

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  • Hey there! I am trying to develop a follow button that's linked to my Spotify profile. The Developer website that should be able to do it (https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/widgets/generat...
  • Hubo
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Superuser Contribution Issues with Recommendations API?

PlanPremiumCountrySwedenOperating System(iOS 14, Windows 10)My Question or IssueHey!I'm working mainly with the recommendations and track APIs. Today, when I picked up my project, all of a sudden some recommendations requests does not return any reco...

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  • Plan Premium Country Sweden Operating System (iOS 14, Windows 10) My Question or Issue Hey! I'm working mainly with the recommendations and track APIs. Today, when I picked up my project,...
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