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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...
We are a team of developers working on a product based on the SharePoint framework. The product we are working on has a couple of API integrations and one of them is Spotify's web player that is implemented using Spotify's Web SDK. A few months back ...
We are a team of developers working on a product based on the SharePoint framework. The product we are working on has a couple of API integrations and one of them is Spotify's web player that is impl...
Newbie
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Hello Team, I need to playlist audio URL to play in my Roku. How to get playlist audio URL for play in VLC using web API.
Hello Team, I need to playlist audio URL to play in my Roku. How to get playlist audio URL for play in VLC using web API.
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PlanPremiumCountryTurkeyDeviceRedmi Note 8 ProOperating System(Android) My Question or Issue I have web grand auth but i want to when user click button redirect to spotify app for auth permission request because in web user needs to write email, pass...
Plan Premium Country Turkey Device Redmi Note 8 Pro Operating System (Android) My Question or Issue I have web grand auth but i want to when user click button redirect to spo...
Music Fan
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These two artists are the same but have different ids. Is there some kind of redirection going on? https://open.spotify.com/artist/1yaQlQCA4vkEq2oyv4KNVJhttps://open.spotify.com/artist/7mFGOWJEkdlJBCXcJ5EWi9 If you call the /v1/artists endpoint with ...
These two artists are the same but have different ids. Is there some kind of redirection going on? https://open.spotify.com/artist/1yaQlQCA4vkEq2oyv4KNVJ https://open.spotify.com/artis...
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Hey guys,I was looking through Spotify's API and noticed the Upload Custom Playlist Image endpoint allows a maximum 256KB payload.I'm relatively new to APIs in general; does this mean this call would only work if the image is smaller than 256KB? If s...
Hey guys, I was looking through Spotify's API and noticed the Upload Custom Playlist Image endpoint allows a maximum 256KB payload. I'm relatively new to APIs in general; does this mean th...
Roadie
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We were recently approved for a quota extension on the Spotify Developer Platform and all Spotify APIs stopped working for our app after approval. The app worked perfectly fine in developer mode and works if we switch the client ID to another account...
We were recently approved for a quota extension on the Spotify Developer Platform and all Spotify APIs stopped working for our app after approval. The app worked perfectly fine in developer mode...
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I want to analysis the song's parameters of WebAPI (valence ,danceability...)and present its result at a study group.Could you tell me that this using purpose is permitted? Example:Comparing some artists' songs , I infer the logic of parameters.Radio...
I want to analysis the song's parameters of WebAPI (valence ,danceability...)and present its result at a study group. Could you tell me that this using purpose is permitted? Example: Compa...
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I have quite a large collection of music files that I've accumulated over the years and it's been on my to-do list for quite some time to sit down and automate the collection of the album metadata and then the adding of those albums to my Spotify lib...
I have quite a large collection of music files that I've accumulated over the years and it's been on my to-do list for quite some time to sit down and automate the collection of the album metadata an...
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Hi there, I'm doing some testing using a free account, trying to utilize Get a User's Available Devices in an app. In both the app and here (the try it page), I can see the Mac where I have installed the Spotify macOS app; however, I cannot see the i...
Hi there, I'm doing some testing using a free account, trying to utilize Get a User's Available Devices in an app. In both the app and here (the try it page), I can see the Mac...
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So this has been bothering me for the longest. I’ve created a script using the Spotipy library. I’m collecting data on my most recently played tracks. Everything is fine except refreshing the access token. I have a bit of code which returns the token...
So this has been bothering me for the longest. I’ve created a script using the Spotipy library. I’m collecting data on my most recently played tracks. Everything is fine except refreshing th...
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PlanPremiumCountryCanadaDevicePython scriptOperating SystemLinux My Question or IssueI have an issue with my "Liked Songs" playlist where thousands of songs where liked by a bug in spotify pre-2019. I am trying to use spotipy (But if the python libra...
Plan Premium Country Canada Device Python script Operating System Linux My Question or Issue I have an issue with my "Liked Songs" playlist where thousands of songs where liked by a ...
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Hi Spotify team!I am developing a webapp that uses spotify's playlist creation functionality.... Would I violate any Spotify policy if I store the ID of public playlists created using my webapp for future references? I would obviously inform the user...
Hi Spotify team! I am developing a webapp that uses spotify's playlist creation functionality.... Would I violate any Spotify policy if I store the ID of public playlists created using my webapp f...
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I use a lot to see the lyrics and to play harmonica I need to open another app to get the numbers and tabs. To be complete, Spotify needs to bring the number together in the songs, this for each different type of instrument, we have an example the cl...
I use a lot to see the lyrics and to play harmonica I need to open another app to get the numbers and tabs. To be complete, Spotify needs to bring the number together in the songs, this for each diff...
Casual Listener
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Info about the app:- Client Side html/js web app Question:Do i have to keep the Client ID secret or do i just have to keep the Client Secret secret? In the Terms it just says "keys" what is meant by "keys"?
Info about the app: - Client Side html/js web app Question: Do i have to keep the Client ID secret or do i just have to keep the Client Secret secret? In the Terms it just says "keys" what...
Roadie
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Hello, I'm looking to undertake a piece of work for a large ticketing provider. They want to list concerts on Spotify in a similar way to Ticketmaster and Songkick. What steps do we need to do to become a ticketing partner and integrate our concerts ...
Hello, I'm looking to undertake a piece of work for a large ticketing provider. They want to list concerts on Spotify in a similar way to Ticketmaster and Songkick. What steps do we...
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I am attempting to use the Get a Playlist endpoint but it keeps returning an empty object {}. I thought this might be an issue with how I formatted my request, so I went to verify by using the web console page for this endpoint. However, even with th...
I am attempting to use the Get a Playlist endpoint but it keeps returning an empty object {}. I thought this might be an issue with how I formatted my request, so I went to verify by using the web co...
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Hi all, We are currently developing an iOS app that uses Spotify's metadata. We however do not require users to authenticate / login (OAuth). Based on the above:Does the 25 users limit still apply?What do we need to do to go production?Thanks.
Hi all, We are currently developing an iOS app that uses Spotify's metadata. We however do not require users to authenticate / login (OAuth). Based on the above: Does the 25 users...
Roadie
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I can use the recommendations feature to generate a list of songs for given genres that satisfy Audio Feature criteria, in my case I need a list of tracks that have min_instrumentalness=0.6. I can get 100 tracks per request this way. However I also n...
I can use the recommendations feature to generate a list of songs for given genres that satisfy Audio Feature criteria, in my case I need a list of tracks that have min_instrumentalness=0.6. I c...
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HelloI read this article: https://newsroom.spotify.com/2018-09-04/how-to-embed-spotifys-play-button/geoinfo.if.ua and try to add spotify player to this site http://hobbytalks.org/, but he does not appear. I think maybe this is a javascript conflict, ...
Hello I read this article: https://newsroom.spotify.com/2018-09-04/how-to-embed-spotifys-play-button/geoinfo.if.ua and try to add spotify player to this site http:/...
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Hi, I'd like to request two audio waveform variables be added in the API return for AudioFeaturesObject: 1) primary & secondary frequencies (e.g. using a Fast Fourier Transform or Discrete Cosine Transform)2) amplitude of these 2 frequencies in relat...
Hi, I'd like to request two audio waveform variables be added in the API return for AudioFeaturesObject: 1) primary & secondary frequencies (e.g. using a Fast Fourier Transform or Discre...
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