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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...
Hello, I would like to propose the idea of including all/more relevant metadata about a playlist in the endpoint available to us developers. I think a lot of apps/creators would benefit from more extensive data, that is already there but not availabl...
Hello, I would like to propose the idea of including all/more relevant metadata about a playlist in the endpoint available to us developers. I think a lot of apps/creators would benefit from more e...
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PlanPremium CountryUSA Operating SystemWindows 11 My Question or Issue For a small project I was working on, I wanted to look through Spotify's provided playlists. Using the user playlists API call, I was able to retrieve about 1400 playlists. Howeve...
Plan Premium Country USA Operating System Windows 11 My Question or Issue For a small project I was working on, I wanted to look through Spotify's provided play...
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Hey, I just graduated and I am trying to get some experience by cloning things I use. I emailed the company telling them I loved the product and that I wanted to clone it. Since they only have a mobile App, I wanted to make a web version of it so I a...
Hey, I just graduated and I am trying to get some experience by cloning things I use. I emailed the company telling them I loved the product and that I wanted to clone it. Si...
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HiWe created an app using Laravel and our server is a cloud Linode in Frankfurt, It doesn't matter what api do we call, everything returns 403, even the AUTH api returns 403 forbidden without any other information.Is it possible that our server is ba...
Hi We created an app using Laravel and our server is a cloud Linode in Frankfurt, It doesn't matter what api do we call, everything returns 403, even the AUTH api returns 403 forbidden without any o...
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PlanPremiumCountry Device( Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2019)Operating System(iOS 10, Android Oreo.) Hello dear spotify team,Today I came across with an issue. The embed podcast is not working.For example in the Michelle Obama Podcast if I try ...
Plan Premium Country Device ( Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2019) Operating System (iOS 10, Android Oreo.) Hello dear spotify team, Today I came across with ...
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I've submitted my 3rd extension quota submission on December 22nd and haven't received an update since. Typically Spotify gets back to me within a few days. I understand there is a delay because of the holiday times. When should I expect them to revi...
I've submitted my 3rd extension quota submission on December 22nd and haven't received an update since. Typically Spotify gets back to me within a few days. I understand there is a del...
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PlanBoth Free/PremiumDeviceAny iOSOperating SystemiOS 11+My Question or IssueI am the developer of a popular music visualizer. Unlike Android, iOS does not have OS level support for music visualization, but I've noticed there are several apps now tha...
Plan Both Free/Premium Device Any iOS Operating System iOS 11+ My Question or Issue I am the developer of a popular music visualizer. Unlike Android, iOS does not have OS level support f...
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PlanPremium CountryUS Operating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueWhen I try to use the /me/player/pause api endpoint it returns error 403 "Player command failed: Premium required" but the token I used to authenticate the request belongs to a prem...
Plan Premium Country US Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue When I try to use the /me/player/pause api endpoint it returns error 403 "Player command failed...
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Hello, on Spotify desktop if I try to reorder multilpe items in my queue by dragging them up, when my cursor hits the top of the screen it does not scroll upwards. This is very unintuitive, as sometimes with shorter queue it does work.I wish this was...
Hello, on Spotify desktop if I try to reorder multilpe items in my queue by dragging them up, when my cursor hits the top of the screen it does not scroll upwards. This is very unintuitive, as someti...
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I am using the Spotify iOS SDK and the Spotify app on my iPhone. iOS 15, Xcode 13.2, iPhone 13 Pro. when calling sessionManager.initiateSession(with: scope, options: .clientOnly) I get redirected to the Spotify app where my authorization fails (I see...
I am using the Spotify iOS SDK and the Spotify app on my iPhone. iOS 15, Xcode 13.2, iPhone 13 Pro. when calling sessionManager.initiateSession(with: scope, options: .clientOnly) &...
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It's been three weeks since a scope extension request was made. In the past these requests were responded to pretty quickly so I'm thinking something has gone wrong? It was for playlist-read-collaborative. I also need to submit a new one for playlist...
It's been three weeks since a scope extension request was made. In the past these requests were responded to pretty quickly so I'm thinking something has gone wrong? It was for playl...
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PlanFree/PremiumCountryIndia Device(iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016)Operating System(iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.) My Question or IssueI have submitted my Quota extension request, but rejected with the reason "to submit ful...
Plan Free/Premium Country India 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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PlanFree/PremiumCountry Device(iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016)Operating System(iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.) My Question or IssueI have tried requesting for quota extension for my app, but that time while submitting the we...
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 I have ...
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PlanPremium My Question or IssueHelloI am not making an application but i am doing school work in the form of a blog post that will show some data that i fetched from the API in the form of a table or some kind of plot.The code file that is used to f...
Plan Premium My Question or Issue Hello I am not making an application but i am doing school work in the form of a blog post that will show some data that i fetched from the API in the fo...
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https://developer.spotify.com/console/get-recently-played/ is not giving me the latest played tracks anymore. Seems like it stopped updating a few hours ago. I've tried listening both in the desktop client and on mobile. I'm playing normal tracks (no...
https://developer.spotify.com/console/get-recently-played/ is not giving me the latest played tracks anymore. Seems like it stopped updating a few hours ago. I've tried listening both i...
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Hey everyone, I am building a feature on my website that would render my top ten played songs from the Get User's Top Items endpoint. Right now it's working fine with my Bearer hardcoded as an environment variable, however, as soon as that expires my...
Hey everyone, I am building a feature on my website that would render my top ten played songs from the Get User's Top Items endpoint. Right now it's working fine with my Bearer hardcoded as...
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I'm not sure what's happening but every last request gives me 500 in my testing and every request before 500 is 302. Im using web api, python, and flask here. The code is bellow. It does provide a TypeError but I listed my code below if you can find ...
I'm not sure what's happening but every last request gives me 500 in my testing and every request before 500 is 302. Im using web api, python, and flask here. The code is bellow. It does provide a Ty...
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PlanPremiumCountryJapanDeviceMacbook Air (M1, 2020)Operating SystemmacOS Monterey 12.0.1 Nice to meet you."My user information(?)" suddenly doesn't work in "spotipy".For example, nothing happens inputing user id in "sp.user_playlists()", and "sp.user...
Plan Premium Country Japan Device Macbook Air (M1, 2020) Operating System macOS Monterey 12.0.1 Nice to meet you. "My user information(?)" suddenly doesn't work in "spotipy". For ...
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Hi, I'm trying to integrate the Web Playback SDK and play a video podcast, but when I specify the URI and play it - it only plays the audio. Is playing a video supported by the SDK? Thanks,M
Hi, I'm trying to integrate the Web Playback SDK and play a video podcast, but when I specify the URI and play it - it only plays the audio. Is playing a video supported by the SDK? &n...
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My web app is using the Spotify API to get all of the albums by multiple artists.I have to call https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/#/operations/get-an-artists-albumsThe number of artists can easily be in the hundreds. Becau...
My web app is using the Spotify API to get all of the albums by multiple artists. I have to call https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/#/operations/get-an-artists-albums The...
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