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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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Get Several Browse Categories returning Chinese in response

My Question or IssueHi, I made a call to the Get Several Browse Categories API and the category names are Chinese in the response. It was working fine until a while ago, so I'm not sure why it's suddenly coming like this. I'm from India by the way. 

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  My Question or Issue Hi, I made a call to the Get Several Browse Categories API and the category names are Chinese in the response. It was working fine until a while ago, so I'm not sure why...

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[Developer] Charts for podcasts by podcast ID

Hi!My idea is to create an endpoint to return a list with the most listened episodes by the podcast id.

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Hi! My idea is to create an endpoint to return a list with the most listened episodes by the podcast id.  

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Superuser Contribution 3rd Party API Changes?

PlanFree/PremiumCountry Device(iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016)Operating System(iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.) My Question or IssueIs Spotify making is so that 3rd Party music servers have to use 'Connect' or is the API goin...

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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 Is Spot...

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Solved!!Superuser Contribution Update endpoint for lyrics

Plan: PremiumCountry: IT Hi support. I'm trying to make a personal device that show current song lyrics. The problem is with your api that don't give developer access to this endpoint.Even when i found an endpoint for the lyrics it return error 403 s...

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Plan: Premium Country: IT   Hi support. I'm trying to make a personal device that show current song lyrics. The problem is with your api that don't give developer access to this endpoint...

ohej

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Superuser Contribution GET /v1/me/top/tracks 403 Error

Operating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueMy app is currently in development mode. I'm using the client credentials OAuth flow. I've already set up my dashboard, registered my app, gotten my client id and client secret. I am trying to get my top...

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Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue My app is currently in development mode. I'm using the client credentials OAuth flow. I've already set up my dashboard, registered my app, ...

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Solved!!Superuser Contribution Development of native app with playback in background

Dear Spotify,we are currently in the prototyping phase of a new app (Android/iOS), which allows the playback of selected playlists/albums/tracks of spotify.To do this job, one can use either the Web Playback SDK or the native SDKs for Android or iOS....

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Dear Spotify, we are currently in the prototyping phase of a new app (Android/iOS), which allows the playback of selected playlists/albums/tracks of spotify. To do this job, one can use either the ...

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Superuser Contribution Persistent personal access token

Hi folks, Is there a way to generate a persistent access token for my own account -- I'd like to write some automation that runs during a build script for something that pulls some data from my own account. Due to this being an automated build script...

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Hi folks,   Is there a way to generate a persistent access token for my own account -- I'd like to write some automation that runs during a build script for something that pulls some data from...

ohej

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[Android][Developer] Back button not working properly when using Spotify applink

Device: LG G7, Galaxy Z-Flip 3Operating System: Android 10 On Android, the back button does not work when you open a playlist link using a view intent and setting the calling app's package name in the extras (EXTRA_REFERRER).I followed the instructio...

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Device: LG G7, Galaxy Z-Flip 3 Operating System: Android 10   On Android, the back button does not work when you open a playlist link using a view intent and setting the callin...

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[Desktop][Developer] Add functionality to osascript

I'm working on being able to control spotify local with the osascript api and I've found it really useful and fun, but it's missing very necessary functionality to actually use. Nothing like the web api, but simply being able to control your queue wo...

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I'm working on being able to control spotify local with the osascript api and I've found it really useful and fun, but it's missing very necessary functionality to actually use. Nothing like the web ...

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Superuser Contribution Keep getting 415 ('Unsupported Media Type') when trying to refresh and access token.

Hi all,Anyone dealt with a 415 response- error when trying to refresh and access token? See attached file to see code.

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Hi all, Anyone dealt with a 415 response- error when trying to refresh and access token?  See attached file to see code.   

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Superuser Contribution preview_url is 404

I'm calling Get a Track API using the following track_id to get preview url. Sample 1 GET https://api.spotify.com/v1/tracks/6nnyNtQlMYz0hAbElgGYVm Response: "preview_url": "https://p.scdn.co/mp3-preview/390a59df2a79986224bf6efa45de8e6974666f46?cid=77...

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I'm calling Get a Track API using the following track_id to get preview url.   Sample 1     GET https://api.spotify.com/v1/tracks/6nnyNtQlMYz0hAbElgGYVm Response: "preview_url": ...

serahrono

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Get Track's Audio Analysis -- 404 analysis not found

PlanFree/PremiumCountryUnited States DeviceSpotify Web API My Question or IssueWhen using the "Get Track's Audio Analysis" endpoint, the response is consistently 404 "analysis not found." When testing the endpoint with over 20 songs, including popula...

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Plan Free/Premium Country United States   Device Spotify Web API   My Question or Issue When using the "Get Track's Audio Analysis" endpoint, the response is consistently 404 "anal...

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CORS Policy Error Playlist Image Cover Set

I have been unable to use the set playlist image cover api. I am creating a web app and using next js and have been able to get this to work. I consistently get a has been blocked by CORS policy: No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on ...

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I have been unable to use the set playlist image cover api. I am creating a web app and using next js and have been able to get this to work. I consistently get a has been blocked by CORS policy...

rishisheth

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Logging in with an account other than mine returns 403.

Currently Spotify does not allow sharing saved song lists, so I deployed an app in Vercel that converts saved song lists into a new playlist. URL : https://spotify-playlist-splitter.vercel.app/ When I log in with my account, the various APIs return 2...

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Currently Spotify does not allow sharing saved song lists, so I deployed an app in Vercel that converts saved song lists into a new playlist.   URL : https://spotify-playlist-splitter.ver...

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The /v1/me/playlists endpoint randomly returns 404

Anyone from the Spotify team here? The /v1/me/playlists endpoint has been randomly returning 404 errors for a few days now. Please see the attached screenshot.

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Anyone from the Spotify team here?   The /v1/me/playlists endpoint has been randomly returning 404 errors for a few days now.   Please see the attached screenshot.  

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Superuser Contribution Publishing Web API data in academic papers

We are a group of students who wrote an academic paper for a project in our bachelor's degree program. It uses data from the Spotify Web API to attempt to classify songs into musical genres based on audio features.The dataset is only comprised of dat...

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We are a group of students who wrote an academic paper for a project in our bachelor's degree program. It uses data from the Spotify Web API to attempt to classify songs into musical genres based on ...

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TypeError: Cannot add negative msPlayed value

Im bring to use the web api to play songs (one by one - not playlist)and I get the following at the html. [Error] TypeError: Cannot add negative msPlayed value: -9(anonymous function) (index.js:18:264819)(anonymous function) (index.js:18:259217)(anon...

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Im bring to use the web api to play songs (one by one - not playlist) and I get the following at the html.   [Error] TypeError: Cannot add negative msPlayed value: -9 (anonymous function) (...

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Get a report when an API endpoint returns nothing and no error

Hi,Yesterday the endpoint to get recently played tracks did not return any data and did not give any error. Is there a way get notified when there's a problem with an endpoint? The official status Twitter feed mentioned nothing about this. Thanks, Pe...

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Hi, Yesterday the endpoint to get recently played tracks did not return any data and did not give any error.   Is there a way get notified when there's a problem with an endpoint? The offic...

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My me/player/recently-played endpoint has not updated since last night

The response from https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/player/recently-played endpoint hasn't been updated for me since last night even though I've played multiple tracks tonight. https://status.spotify.dev is showing all clear… Any ideas? Maybe a DST relat...

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The response from https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/player/recently-played endpoint hasn't been updated for me since last night even though I've played multiple tracks tonight. https://status.s...

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open.spotify.com is unresponsive and unreactive

PlanPremiumCountryCanadaDevice(Ryzen 7 3700X, 16GB RAM, 300Mbps download speed)Operating System(Windows 11) My Question or IssueThe open.spotify.com interface doesn't use loaders or check success or failure for events such as: adding to queue, shuffl...

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Plan Premium Country Canada Device (Ryzen 7 3700X, 16GB RAM, 300Mbps download speed) Operating System (Windows 11)   My Question or Issue The open.spotify.com interface doesn't use loa...

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