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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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500 and 302 errors web api

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 ...

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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 Ty...

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Is a persistent user-scoped token possible?

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...

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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...

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API endpoint for getting multiple Albums (with tracks) from multiple Artists

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...

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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-albums The...

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Superuser Contribution Cannot login to Spotify developer console

I cannot login to the Spotify developer dashboard. I have signed up with Spotify through Facebook. I have created multiple apps using the dashboard before. Now, when I try to sign in through Facebook by  clicking the "login" button, I see a new windo...

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I cannot login to the Spotify developer dashboard.    I have signed up with Spotify through Facebook. I have created multiple apps using the dashboard before. Now, when I try to sign in t...

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Error with authorization using PHP Curl

PlanFreeCountrySpainDevicePCOperating SystemUbuntu 20.04 My Question or IssueIm trying to make an application web for eductional purpose.So far i tried this: '; $client_id = 'da145e8c4b304dc3875a8e79a062c927'; //$client_secret = ''; $client_secret = ...

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Plan Free Country Spain Device PC Operating System Ubuntu 20.04   My Question or Issue Im trying to make an application web for eductional purpose. So far i tried this:   &nbsp...

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Inconsistencies with resources that have hashes (like user ID a#a)

Hi, in a recent GitHub issue I was made aware that user IDs may contain hashes, and that when retrieving user information or e.g. playlists, one should URL-encode that hash to avoid passing it in as HTML id, which is stripped by the server. In the ca...

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Hi, in a recent GitHub issue I was made aware that user IDs may contain hashes, and that when retrieving user information or e.g. playlists, one should URL-encode that hash to avoid passing it in as ...

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Can no longer make changes to a playlist that I created

Hi, I'm running into a very weird issue with a playlist I created (uri spotify:playlist:40zpDuvEjmd5MxF9jrmo9R). I can't seem to make any changes to it any more, including updating the description (gives me an error: Failed to save playlist changes),...

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Hi, I'm running into a very weird issue with a playlist I created (uri spotify:playlist:40zpDuvEjmd5MxF9jrmo9R). I can't seem to make any changes to it any more, including updating the description (g...

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Search for Songwriters / Producers via Credits

Hey guys,It would be awesome to be able to search for a Songwriter or Producer by their credit. Currently when searching on Spotify it's pretty cool that you can search for the latest releases of a label by doing something like this: label:"Spinnin' ...

Music Fan

Hey guys, It would be awesome to be able to search for a Songwriter or Producer by their credit.   Currently when searching on Spotify it's pretty cool that you can search for the latest rele...

Hubo

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Solved!! User ID doesn't work?? (spotipy)

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...

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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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IFTTT Usage limits are FAR TOO LOW

I am a long time Spotify Premium user. I am also a long time IFTTT user too.I have a number of integrations with IFTTT and Spotify and in June/July this year they all stopped working due to Usage limits being exceeded. In particular I have one integr...

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I am a long time Spotify Premium user. I am also a long time IFTTT user too. I have a number of integrations with IFTTT and Spotify and in June/July this year they all stopped working due to Usage...

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GET artist Twitter from Spotify API

Does anyone know how I could go about requesting additional data be exposed via the Spotify API? Has anyone seen this done in the past? I am running a Zap that tweets every time someone adds a track to a collaborative playlist, and I’d love to GET th...

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Does anyone know how I could go about requesting additional data be exposed via the Spotify API? Has anyone seen this done in the past?    I am running a Zap that tweets every time someon...

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Scope Extension Request Suggestions

I submitted a scope extension request for playlist-read-collaborative a week ago, and have been waiting for a response. In the meantime I've realized I also need playlist-read-private.I'd hate to have to wait another couple of weeks for this request ...

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I submitted a scope extension request for playlist-read-collaborative a week ago, and have been waiting for a response.  In the meantime I've realized I also need playlist-read-private. I'd h...

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Bug in Search API: Always returning null

CountryGermanyOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueHello fellow developers, I'm currently experiencing an issue with the /search endpoint in the API. My ultimate goal is to obtain the Spotify IDs for songs listed in the listening history JS...

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Country Germany Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue Hello fellow developers,   I'm currently experiencing an issue with the /search endpoint in the API. My ultimate g...

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Missing previewURL

Is there a reason why so many tracks are missing previewURL? We are not getting previewURL for like 70% of the songs. For example, adding the "Happier than Ever" song by Billie Eillish and playing the 30 second preview works on Tinder. But when I add...

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Is there a reason why so many tracks are missing previewURL? We are not getting previewURL for like 70% of the songs.   For example, adding the "Happier than Ever" song by Billie Eillish and p...

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Detailed playlist types in API

Hello,with your api a developer or service can gain access to all the playlists a user is following and that are especially curated for him. But there is now way to distinguish a normal playlist, which is the same for every user, from a special curat...

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Hello, with your api  a developer or service can gain access to all the playlists a user is following and that are especially curated for him. But there is now way to distinguish a normal playl...

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Superuser Contribution Quota extension request is gone?

I've submitted the quota extension recently and now when I check my dashboard, it's no longer. What happened to it? I need to use it asap.

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I've submitted the quota extension recently and now when I check my dashboard, it's no longer. What happened to it? I need to use it asap.   

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Superuser Contribution Dashboard Users and Access button disabled

PlanFreeCountryCanada Operating SystemMac OS Big Sur My Question or IssueI don't have a quota extension so I need to add users manually. However, when I go to my app dashboard the Users and Access button is disabled/greyed out. This problem persists ...

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Plan Free Country Canada   Operating System Mac OS Big Sur   My Question or Issue I don't have a quota extension so I need to add users manually. However, when I go to my app dashb...

ksysha

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Find the timbre bitmaps

Is there a way to get the timbre bitmaps from the api? Or download them somewhere? The ones that are in the audio analysis documentation.

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Is there a way to get the timbre bitmaps from the api? Or download them somewhere? The ones that are in the audio analysis documentation. 

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Solved!! Start/Resume Playback API return 401

Hello,I'm trying to use PUT https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/player/playto change a song using Axios, and I had provided the token, but I keep getting 401 error of token not provided. Here is the code that I was using: const putRequest = async () => { c...

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Hello, I'm trying to use PUT https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/player/play to change a song using Axios, and I had provided the token, but I keep getting 401 error of token not provided.   ...

zhenyang

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[Question] Linked Tracks

Spotify seems to smartly link multiple uploads of the same song in order to aggregate combined stats (play counts) and also relink between those version in case the original track is not available in a given market.From my testing, this linking goes ...

Music Fan

Spotify seems to smartly link multiple uploads of the same song in order to aggregate combined stats (play counts) and also relink between those version in case the original track is not available in...

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