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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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Access frame data to apply an algorithm

PlanPremiumCountrySpainDeviceSmartphone Operating SystemLinuxMy Question or Issue Hey, how are you? I am trying to apply an algorithm to the frames coming from the CDN, because with higher loads of processing I can improve the audio quality experienc...

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Plan Premium Country Spain Device Smartphone  Operating System Linux My Question or Issue   Hey, how are you?    I am trying to apply an algorithm to the frames coming...

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Error parsing fields when requesting tracks.limit

PlanPremiumCountryCzechia My Question or IssueHi! It seems there is a problem when specifying "tracks.limit" field when calling get playlist endpoint (haven't tried others).You can request all other fields like this: "tracks.offset,tracks.next,tracks...

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Plan Premium Country Czechia   My Question or Issue Hi! It seems there is a problem when specifying "tracks.limit" field when calling get playlist endpoint (haven't tried others). Yo...

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I am not receiving accurate results in the top tracks request.

Hello everyone.I have realized over the past two months that my request to request the most listened to songs in a four month period is not accurate.I don't really understand why, since other sites like spotifystats use the same api and it gives accu...

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Hello everyone. I have realized over the past two months that my request to request the most listened to songs in a four month period is not accurate. I don't really understand why, since other sit...

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"Next in queue" being replaced by "Next From" (Playback API Bug)

Hi, I'm currently developing a mobile app that uses /player/queue, /player/next, and /player/play methods of Web API. When ever I skip to the next song in "Next in queue" and then play a specific track uri, the "Next in queue" list disappears and is ...

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Hi,  I'm currently developing a mobile app that uses  /player/queue, /player/next, and /player/play methods of Web API.   When ever I skip to the next song in "Next in queue" and ...

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Superuser Contribution Getting invalid_scope when we authenticate with Spotify App

PlanFree DeviceAllOperating SystemAll My Question or IssueWhen we authenticate from Spotify App in my app. I am getting error in callback from Spotify Apprlrc-spotify://spotify-music-callback-spotify/?spotify_version=8.7.32.1667#error=invalid_scope P...

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Plan Free   Device All Operating System All   My Question or Issue When we authenticate from Spotify App in my app. I am getting error in callback from Spotify App rlrc-spotify://...

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Superuser Contribution Does Client Credential flow allow access to user tracks & playlists?

PremiumUnited StatesPython 3.8MacOS My Question or Issue: Trying to pull my current tracks and playlists via Web API. Running locally using Python 3.8 requests but this will eventually become an AWS Lambda function. Tried to use the Authorization Cod...

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Premium United States Python 3.8 MacOS   My Question or Issue:   Trying to pull my current tracks and playlists via Web API. Running locally using Python 3.8 requests but this will e...

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Superuser Contribution 4xx Errors while fetching data

Country - Israel Device - Macbook Pro late 2016Operating System - iOS 10 Hi,I'm receiving 4xx errors when trying to fetch my client's data such as top 50 tracks and Spotify recommendations, although the authorization process is valid, the user accept...

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Country - Israel   Device - Macbook Pro late 2016 Operating System - iOS 10   Hi, I'm receiving 4xx errors when trying to fetch my client's data such as top 50 tracks and Sp...

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Superuser Contribution Intermittent 404 when using the `/v1/search` endpoint.

PlanCommercialCountryUKDevice AWS EC2 instanceOperating SystemCentos 7 My Question or Issue Hi team We are the BBC Sounds team and we provide Spotify links to Tracks which are played in our content. E.g: Go to https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00176...

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Plan Commercial Country UK Device  AWS EC2 instance Operating System Centos 7   My Question or Issue   Hi team 👋   We are the BBC Sounds team and we provide Spotify ...

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Superuser Contribution Spotify iOS SDK

We have a significant issue with my dev team related to in app playback of music from user's connecting their Spotify account to our app. We are using the most recent Spotify iOS SDK (and Web API for some things too) and the devs say that this only a...

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We have a significant issue with my dev team related to in app playback of music from user's connecting their Spotify account to our app.  We are using the most recent Spotify iOS SDK (and Web A...

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[Web API] Return record label value for album search results

Album objects in search results don't return "label" value while directly querying a particular album it is returned. Would it be possible to return the record label in search results?Example search query: https://api.spotify.com/v1/search?query=Muse...

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Album objects in search results don't return "label" value while directly querying a particular album it is returned. Would it be possible to return the record label in search results? Example sea...

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Using the Spotify Web API without the user logging in

PlanFree/PremiumCountry Device(iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016)Operating System(iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.)=My Question or IssueNot sure if this was already asked, but is it possible to get metadata from tracks or albums ...

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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 Not sure if ...

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API: Receiving random 404 response.

Receiving random 404 response of the searchapi.https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/#/operations/search When calling the same request a valid 200 response is returned.404 is not specified as a possible response. DeviceAPI

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Receiving random 404 response of the search api. https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/#/operations/search   When calling the same request a valid 200 response is ret...

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Superuser Contribution I have a problem with the login page

I'm trying to program a clon of Spotify to practice (I'm studying React) and I have a problem, when I'm in login page i can't see my username? I have to declare it on some place?Thanks!

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I'm trying to program a clon of Spotify to practice (I'm studying React) and I have a problem, when I'm in login page i can't see my username? I have to declare it on some place? Thanks!  

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Superuser Contribution Help with Request failed with status code 403 on read-recently-played

PlanPremiumCountryBrazil DeviceSmartphone and Desktop Operating System(iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10) My Question or Issue I created an application to gather the recently played songs between my colleagues in University but Im having trouble with ...

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Plan Premium Country Brazil   Device Smartphone and Desktop   Operating System (iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10)   My Question or Issue   I created an applicati...

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Track's stream count which excludes loop/repeat per day

Is it possible to retrieve a track's stream count per day which excludes loop/repeat plays? For example each user who streamed a track in a specific day played the track multiple times but Im only interested in the count of all first play by each use...

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Is it possible to retrieve a track's stream count per day which excludes loop/repeat plays? For example each user who streamed a track in a specific day played the track multiple times but Im only in...

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How do I play Spotify in my own iOS app?

I've integrated the iOS SDK into our iOS App, now how can I play music in my App instead of opening Spotify App, sometimes users don't have Spotify installed.

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I've integrated the iOS SDK into our iOS App, now how can I play music in my App instead of opening Spotify App, sometimes users don't have Spotify installed.

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Superuser Contribution Where in track is the 30 seconds preview?

PlanPremiumCountryUnited StatesOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueIs it possible to find where the track preview is in the track. I've looked at the API documentation but I can't find anything. I am trying to sync the audio analysis respo...

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Plan Premium Country United States Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue Is it possible to find where the track preview is in the track. I've looked at the API documentation...

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Please help me! How to get multiple tracks using multiple isrc?

PlanFree/PremiumCountryUSADevice(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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Superuser Contribution Progress not updating correctly when playing from the Web Playback SDK

When playing a song using the Web Playback SDK (initializing a new device and then sending a play command through the Web API), the playback progress (ie. position) is not reflected on other apps or in the /v1/me/player/ endpoint. The value is stuck ...

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When playing a song using the Web Playback SDK (initializing a new device and then sending a play command through the Web API), the playback progress (ie. position) is not reflected on other apps or ...

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Solved!!Superuser Contribution Having problems with Redirect URL in production

I previously had an issue around redirect_uri that was quickly clarified and solved (thank you! ). My app runs perfectly locally, but now that I've deployed it on Heroku, I'm running into a related and confusing issue. To confirm, the 'redirect_uri' ...

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I previously had an issue around redirect_uri that was quickly clarified and solved (thank you! 😁). My app runs perfectly locally, but now that I've deployed it on Heroku, I'm running into a related...

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