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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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[Web API] Bug: 403 Response with empty body instead of Error Object

Observed behavior:As expected, a GET request to the endpoint at https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/top/artistsreceives an HTTP 403 response when the Token in use does not have the necessary Scope (i.e., lacking 'user-top-read' scope)However, the body of t...

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  • Observed behavior: As expected, a GET request to the endpoint at  https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/top/artists receives an HTTP 403 response when the Token in use does not have the necessary Sc...
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Auth token expiring every hour

Dear Sir/Mam, I am trying to build an flutter app based on Spotify APIs. I am using this library "https://pub.dev/packages/spotify_sdk" to get Auth token and suing that token in Web-API to fetch playlists etc. Also I will be playing music using the s...

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  • Dear Sir/Mam,   I am trying to build an flutter app based on Spotify APIs. I am using this library "https://pub.dev/packages/spotify_sdk" to get Auth token and suing that token in Web-API to f...
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Embeds not working Cannot read property 'setSession' of undefined

Hey there, we're experiencing some issues on embeds we're using on our Page. Since the error also exists if we just open the Embed in our Browser we guess it's a Spotify Problem. Example Embed URL: https://open.spotify.com/embed-podcast/episode/0nrJx...

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  • Hey there,   we're experiencing some issues on embeds we're using on our Page. Since the error also exists if we just open the Embed in our Browser we guess it's a Spotify Problem.   Ex...
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Superuser Contribution How to submit Spotify Web App?

Hi everyone, I have done a website for my Master's Degree in Computer Science , using Spotify API and I wanted to submit it to Spotify like in this page https://developer.spotify.com/community/showcase/web-apps/ How can I do? Thanks to all!

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  • Hi everyone,   I have done a website for my Master's Degree in Computer Science 👨‍🎓🖥, using Spotify API 🎵 and I wanted to submit it to Spotify like in this page ⬇️&nbsp...
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Not able to play spotify song in our web application

PlanPremiumCountryIndiaMy Question or IssueWe are building a web application where we want to play Spotify songs by Spotify authenticated users. Is there any way to do this? We have tried with Spotify web API and web playback SDK but couldn't able to...

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  • Plan Premium Country India My Question or Issue We are building a web application where we want to play Spotify songs by Spotify authenticated users. Is there any way to do this? We have tried w...
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Create Spotify Playlist not allowed Spotify Web Api

PlanPremium CountryUSA Operating SystemMac OS Catalina I have a question related to the Spotify Web API. I am working on a small script in Python to create a playlist of random tracks. I have gone through the Authentication flow and used the refresh ...

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  • ...laylist-modify-public and private). I have tried to use the same inputs (user_id and auth token) on the web console and it is able to create a playlist. However, when I try through my script, I am r...
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Solved!! ID-Mess (for at least albums but probably more)

Continuing on my search to build "all-songs-of-artist-in-my-library"-function I found another strange thing, maybe somebody can help:If I search for all albums of "Godsmack" (using /v1/artists/6gZq1Q6bdOxsUPUG1TaFbF/albums) I get quite a long list, c...

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  • Continuing on my search to build "all-songs-of-artist-in-my-library"-function I found another strange thing, maybe somebody can help: If I search for all albums of "Godsmack" (using /v1/artists/6gZq...
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Follow button inframe problem (Russian)

Follow button have auto-translation depends what OS you use. So i got problem with that: inframe have 100px and it's works good with word "Follow" but when word is longer you have cutted button. PlanFree/PremiumCountryRussia DeviceIpad ,iphone 11, wi...

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  • Follow button have auto-translation depends what OS you use.  So i got problem with that: inframe have 100px and it's works good with word "Follow" but when word is longer you have cutted butto...
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Is this endpoint working?

Is the Upload Custom Cover Art API working for anybody?https://developer.spotify.com/console/put-playlist-images/Even when I try it here I get Error 400: Bad Request.

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  • Is the Upload Custom Cover Art API working for anybody? https://developer.spotify.com/console/put-playlist-images/ Even when I try it here I get Error 400: Bad Request.
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In app play

Some applications (Vertigo, SoundHound, etc) can play music from Spotify.How do they do it?iOS SDK does not provide such opportunities.

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  • Some applications (Vertigo, SoundHound, etc) can play music from Spotify. How do they do it? iOS SDK does not provide such opportunities.
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Getting 503 on /api/token endpoint when refreshing

PlanPremium, open and free CountryAll countries DeviceMobile phones Operating SystemAll android & all iOS versions My Question or IssueWhen the app tries to refresh the token on startup it sometimes gives an 503 Service Unavailable error on the endpo...

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  • Plan Premium, open and free   Country All countries   Device Mobile phones   Operating System All android & all iOS versions   My Question or Issue When the app t...
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Spotify Embed doesn't play full tracks on narrow browsers

DeviceMacbook Pro, Early 2011Operating SystemMac OSX My site has a Spotify Embed widget. In Google Chrome, with a full-size browser window, it plays full tracks. However, if I decrease the browser window width to 375px, it only plays 30-second previe...

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  • Device Macbook Pro, Early 2011 Operating System Mac OSX   My site has a Spotify Embed widget. In Google Chrome, with a full-size browser window, it plays full tracks. However, if I decrease...
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Search option for exact match

It would be useful to have an option in /v1/search endpoint to have exact matches (for instance concerning artists). Searching "artist:mad" would than NOT return "Madonna".Or allow the search to search for ID's, like "q=artist:2wPOgnQ6eW3X73uIJZ4YFE"

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  • It would be useful to have an option in /v1/search endpoint to have exact matches (for instance concerning artists). Searching "artist:mad" would than NOT return "Madonna". Or allow the search to se...
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Get 500 Internal server error when trying add new track to playlist

I'm using this api to add new track to playlist.https://api.spotify.com/v1/playlists/{playlist_id}/tracks But when I added 11,000 track successfully, there no way to add more. Is it limit track number per playlist?Why I get status code 500 but not 40...

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  • I'm using this api to add new track to playlist. https://api.spotify.com/v1/playlists/{playlist_id}/tracks  But when I added 11,000 track successfully, there no way to add more. Is it lim...
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Search not returning expected tracks

I am working on some features for me app and one is to play all liked songs from an artist (see other post). While coding I came across the following "thing":I search for songs of "dikanda", with querytype=track and query "q=artist:dikanda" and find ...

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  • I am working on some features for me app and one is to play all liked songs from an artist (see other post). While coding I came across the following "thing": I search for songs of "dikanda", with q...
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AudioTrig Ltd. Commercial Integration Application

Greetings from the AudioTrig Team, AudioTrig Ltd. would really love to get started on the next steps for our application. We would love to give the go ahead for various social media campaigns but are yet to hear back from Spotify regarding the status...

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  • Greetings from the AudioTrig Team,   AudioTrig Ltd. would really love to get started on the next steps for our application.   We would love to give the go ahead for various social media...
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How to find tracks of an artist in library

I want to find all songs of specific artist in the users library.Is there something I can add to the /v1/me/tracks-endpoint or do I have to do the filtering manually after retrieving the entire library?I know of the "fields" parameter, is there a "fi...

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  • I want to find all songs of specific artist in the users library. Is there something I can add to the /v1/me/tracks-endpoint or do I have to do the filtering manually after retrieving the entir...
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Remove description from playlists

Hi, I'm trying to remove the playlist's description by using the web API but every time I get { "error": { "status": 400, "message": "Attribute description is empty" } }What can I do to remove it?

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  • Hi, I'm trying to remove the playlist's description by using the web API but every time I get    { "error": { "status": 400, "message": "Attribute description is empty" } } W...
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[Feature Request] - Allow filtering of playlist tracks by date

Please consider adding some extra options to https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/playlists/get-playlists-tracks/ to allow clients to search for tracks based on the date they were added. Something like: added_beforeadded_afte...

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  • Please consider adding some extra options to https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/playlists/get-playlists-tracks/ to allow clients to search for tracks based on the...
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