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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!Hope you are doing well.My name is Igor.I have one question. Recently I’ve started YouTube channel on WEB Development - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXkcYikLC-TwF_H373bECFQ where I mainly develop clones of popular web apps. One of such apps...
Hello! Hope you are doing well. My name is Igor. I have one question. Recently I’ve started YouTube channel on WEB Development - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXkcYikLC-TwF_H373bECFQ wh...
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On the developer api, if there was an endpoint like:'artists/{artist_id}/monthly-listeners/{year}/{month}'Where you could retrieve how many listeners an artist had that month.It would open room for so many educational analysis on what could've impact...
On the developer api, if there was an endpoint like: 'artists/{artist_id}/monthly-listeners/{year}/{month}' Where you could retrieve how many listeners an artist had that month. It would open room...
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Does Spotify have any email for API / developer support?
Does Spotify have any email for API / developer support?
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Some context: At the beginning of this year, I started a weekly tradition where friends and I add one song to a shared playlist that we think the group should hear. At the end of the week, I move the songs to a different playlist to archive them, and...
Some context: At the beginning of this year, I started a weekly tradition where friends and I add one song to a shared playlist that we think the group should hear. At the end of the week, I move the...
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PlanFreeCountryItalyDeviceDesktopOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueCollecting these info in attached picture is crucial for me and it would be amazing having an API endpoint! In the last few days I read about lot of people asking for it ...
Plan Free Country Italy Device Desktop Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue Collecting these info in attached picture is crucial for me and it would be amazing ha...
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API Endpoint Example:PUThttps://api.spotify.com/v1/me/player/seek?position_ms= Regardless of the integer given for "position_ms" track seeks to 0. API returns response 204 like normal but will not seek to any position other than 0. -Have tried with/w...
API Endpoint Example: PUT https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/player/seek?position_ms= Regardless of the integer given for "position_ms" track seeks to 0. API returns response 204 like normal bu...
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PlanPremiumCountryBRASILOperating SystemAndroidMy Question or IssueI'm using spotify-remote sdk, but when I try to connect to running spotify, it returns the following error: connectToSpotify failed with: Indicates the user did not authorize this cli...
Plan Premium Country BRASIL Operating System Android My Question or Issue I'm using spotify-remote sdk, but when I try to connect to running spotify, it returns the following error: c...
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I am developing an android-based music player app using Kotlin and the Spotify android API My Question or IssueIs there a way that while listening to a song or playlist that a user can determined if they have previously liked that particular song?
I am developing an android-based music player app using Kotlin and the Spotify android API My Question or Issue Is there a way that while listening to a song or playlist that a user can det...
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Is it possible to return the album popularity from the following request: https://api.spotify.com/v1/artists/{id}/albums I only seem to be able to get this from searching albums individually with https://api.spotify.com/v1/albums/{id} This is not ide...
Is it possible to return the album popularity from the following request: https://api.spotify.com/v1/artists/{id}/albums I only seem to be able to get this from searching albums ind...
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Is it possible to get the playlists belonging to an artist via API?Like this one:https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7dO4VJmUhpC8Zcl3k62IDI Which can be found on the Artists page:https://open.spotify.com/artist/0F3Aew9DSd6fb6192K1K0Y
Is it possible to get the playlists belonging to an artist via API? Like this one: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7dO4VJmUhpC8Zcl3k62IDI Which can be found on the Artists page: htt...
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PlanFree/PremiumCountry Device(iPhone, iPad)Operating System(iOS 14+) My Question or IssueHi all! We use SPTSessionManager from the iOS SDK to get authorization. When doing SPTSessionManager.initiateSession, we used to get back access_token = XXX URL...
Plan Free/Premium Country Device (iPhone, iPad) Operating System (iOS 14+) My Question or Issue Hi all! We use SPTSessionManager from the iOS SDK to get authorization. When do...
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At Spotify API document, Get Currently Playing Track API response document is not showing expected data, It shows template engine code. I confirmed other status codes than 200 are working as expected. I checked some other API response document works ...
At Spotify API document, Get Currently Playing Track API response document is not showing expected data, It shows template engine code. I confirmed other status codes than 200 are working as exp...
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PlanPremiumCountry PolandOperating SystemLinux pop-os My Question or IssueI am using /recommendations route. In most cases it works pretty well. But sometimes when i provide more data it responds with invalid request and status 400. It doesn't work c...
Plan Premium Country Poland Operating System Linux pop-os My Question or Issue I am using /recommendations route. In most cases it works pretty well. But sometimes when i provide...
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Will there ever be an API call that will let a developer send an array of song ids that could be used to order the users playlist? So right now, the only way to reorder a playlist is to take song in one position and include the new position but when ...
Will there ever be an API call that will let a developer send an array of song ids that could be used to order the users playlist? So right now, the only way to reorder a playlist is to take...
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PlanPremiumCountryCanadaDeviceDesktopOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueI'm currently looking for uri commands for common usabilityplaypausenext songshufflerepeat albumrepeat songCurrently the only one available is the uri command to open...
Plan Premium Country Canada Device Desktop Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue I'm currently looking for uri commands for common usability play pause next song shuf...
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PlanFreeCountryCanadaDeviceDesktopOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue I have a track in my playlist which I expect to find with the search query "artist:Method Man, Jones Ink AND track:Day Ones" but I get no results.I can however find ano...
Plan Free Country Canada Device Desktop Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue I have a track in my playlist which I expect to find with the search query "artist:M...
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PlanPremiumCountryUKOperating SystemmacOS 12.0 IssueSearch API incorrect result for query 'Smok Dance Tonight'https://developer.spotify.com/console/get-search-item/?q=Smok%20Dance%20Tonight&type=track&market=&limit=&offset=&include_external= However ...
Plan Premium Country UK Operating System macOS 12.0 Issue Search API incorrect result for query 'Smok Dance Tonight' https://developer.spotify.com/console/get-search-item/?q=Smok%20Da...
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I want to play a random song from user saved songs using Spotify Web API. I test it here https://developer.spotify.com/console/put-play/ Putting this into request body { "context_uri": "spotify:user:malnen132:collection", "offset": { "position": 5 },...
I want to play a random song from user saved songs using Spotify Web API. I test it here https://developer.spotify.com/console/put-play/ Putting this into request body { "context_uri":...
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PlanPremiumCountryHungaryDeviceWebOperating SystemSDKMy Question or Issue Hi there! I'd like to write a Discord bot that can join a voice channel and stream music using my Spotify Premium account. Am I legally allowed to do this? If not am I legally ...
Plan Premium Country Hungary Device Web Operating System SDK My Question or Issue Hi there! I'd like to write a Discord bot that can join a voice channel and stream music us...
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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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