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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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Error 429, how can I avoid rate limiting?

I have built a script that polls the user's current song around 1-3 times per minute (totaling ~4 times per song), since I am using this information elsewhere. I have reduced this as much as I can in order to avoid rate limiting, however, this is the...

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I have built a script that polls the user's current song around 1-3 times per minute (totaling ~4 times per song), since I am using this information elsewhere. I have reduced this as much as I can in...

Peter_Schorn

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Follow button

I'm using the Spotify follow button (it's an iFrame element) in a simple website. When a user clicks the link, their default browser opens and they're prompted to login. However if I you go directly to the url specified in as an attribute in the iFra...

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I'm using the Spotify follow button (it's an iFrame element)  in a simple website.  When a user clicks the link, their default browser opens and they're prompted to login.  However if ...

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Superuser Contribution Spotify Web API Playback

I've recently been looking into Spotify playback and how to use Web API SDK. Just wanted to share a workflow I though of to see if anyone had any thoughts or suggestions: Generating a Web API SDK access token through my appAny Spotify premium account...

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I've recently been looking into Spotify playback and how to use Web API SDK. Just wanted to share a workflow I though of to see if anyone had any thoughts or suggestions:   Generating a Web AP...

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[Playlist API] Returning incorrect total for blends

PlanFree/PremiumCountryAll DeviceAllOperating SystemAll My Question or IssueI've noticed that both the following endpoints/v1/me/playlists/v1/users/{user_id}/playlistsreturn incorrect values for `tracks.total` for "Blend" playlists.The playlists/play...

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Plan Free/Premium Country All   Device All Operating System All   My Question or Issue I've noticed that both the following endpoints /v1/me/playlists /v1/users/{user_id}/playl...

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Superuser Contribution Getting 403 Error while Calling Web SDK APIs (Devices,Play,Pause etc) without information

Plan PremiumCountry IndiaDevice Macbook 16 inch + ChromeOperating System 11.3.1 (20E241) I have created an app in my account when I am login from the same account through Spotify logic is working fine. But when I trying from another "PREMIUM" account...

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Plan Premium Country India Device Macbook 16 inch + Chrome Operating System 11.3.1 (20E241)   I have created an app in my account when I am login from the same account t...

vinitkumargoel

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Software architecture of Spotify

My Question or IssueI am doing a research project for university with the topic "software architecture of Spotify", since I am not developer myself I have big issues with describing the architecture (Microservices). Is there any picture or something ...

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My Question or Issue I am doing a research project for university with the topic "software architecture of Spotify", since I am not developer myself I have big issues with describing the architectur...

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Superuser Contribution Response code Forbidden

PlanPremiumCountryBelgiumDeviceWindows desktopOperating SystemWindows 10 We integrated the Spotify Web API into our system. For approx 2 months everything was working fine until last week.I see a lot of errors on the calls we do. E.g Get user's avail...

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Plan Premium Country Belgium Device Windows desktop Operating System Windows 10   We integrated the Spotify Web API into our system. For approx 2 months everything was working fine unti...

peterdb

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Spotify API with Ionic app

Hi, I was thinking to make a ionic app, the idea is using a form, the people enter a name of songs and using a query to spotify api get all the data of this song, can i make it? Thanks!

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Hi,   I was thinking to make a ionic app, the idea is using a form, the people enter a name of songs and using a query to spotify api get all the data of this song, can i make it?   Tha...

Peter_Schorn

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[iOS][Developer] One click follow button

I think having one button so that people can automatically follow your page from an outside app or website without having to go to spotify first and click "follow" would be really great for artists. That way they can come back and find you later in c...

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I think having one button so that people can automatically follow your page from an outside app or website without having to go to spotify first and click "follow" would be really great for artists. ...

Peter_Schorn

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URIs Array seems to have an undocumented limit

When I try to play tracks using the "/v1/me/player/play" endpoint I get results where:- Player shows an emtpy Queue (this is always the case)- after one of the first few songs one song seems to continue playing - progressbar is full, played time and ...

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When I try to play tracks using the "/v1/me/player/play" endpoint I get results where: - Player shows an emtpy Queue (this is always the case) - after one of the first few songs one song seems to c...

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Spotify recently played web api

I'm trying to get my most recent songs to display on my website and can't wrap my head around it. Has anyone figured this out? From what I've found it requires a user to login with tokens expiring after 1 hour. I'm using Vue (or specifically Nuxt) if...

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I'm trying to get my most recent songs to display on my website and can't wrap my head around it. Has anyone figured this out?   From what I've found it requires a user to login with tokens ex...

Christoffer

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Spotify API (My user data)

Hello, I'm developing a personal website/developer profile and I'd like to display some user data from my own profile. Specifically, I'd like to display my all-time most listened to tracks and artists. Is there a way to display this information on my...

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Hello,   I'm developing a personal website/developer profile and I'd like to display some user data from my own profile. Specifically, I'd like to display my all-time most listened to tracks a...

CrossDeveloper

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Number of streams endpoint

My Question or Issue Hi thereI have been trying to integrate the number of streams of multiple songs( with country as a filter) into a system that generates a comparative list in the form of a chart that integrates a number of other variables too. Ho...

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My Question or Issue   Hi there I have been trying to integrate the number of streams of multiple songs( with country as a filter) into a system that generates a comparative list in the form ...

Christoffer

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API return favicon URLs with trailing space

My Question or IssueCurrently the Spotify API incorrectly returns HTML icon meta tags with trailing spaces, eg. I have tried a few different ones so far and it seems to apply to both tracks and playlists:https://open.spotify.com/playlist/636JPjFfxIu...

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My Question or Issue Currently the Spotify API incorrectly returns HTML icon meta tags with trailing spaces, eg. <link rel="icon" href="https://open.scdn.co/cdn/images/favicon.0c211e2e.png "> ...

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KeyError ['total']

I am creating a user dashboard using plotly and flask to display the top tracks and top artists preferred by a user. My code has been working fine but suddenly I got this error. Also, in the same application, I was able to create a new playlist on sp...

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I am creating a user dashboard using plotly and flask to display the top tracks and top artists preferred by a user. My code has been working fine but suddenly I got this error. Also, in the same app...

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Superuser Contribution Use of "Spotify" word inside app and content

Hi, i've developed an Android app that's called "Spotify Top Stats".It connects to the user's Spotify account via official OAuth procedure and shows some statistics about Spotify usage.My question is: can i use the word "Spotify" inside my app name a...

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Hi,  i've developed an Android app that's called "Spotify Top Stats". It connects to the user's Spotify account via official OAuth procedure and shows some statistics about Spotify usage. My ...

ohej

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Superuser Contribution INVALID_CLIENT: Invalid redirect URI

I am following the Quick Start tutorial, which instructs: To try the app, replace these credentials with the values that you received when you registered your app. In this demonstration app we use http://localhost:8888/callback as the redirect URI. I...

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I am following the Quick Start tutorial, which instructs:   To try the app, replace these credentials with the values that you received when you registered your app. In this demonstration app ...

charrz

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Podcast Show (RSS) Publishing API

Does Spotify have or plan to have a podcast show publishing API? Interested in automating the process of submitting a show RSS, similarly to how Captivate allows this from within their user dashboard.

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Does Spotify have or plan to have a podcast show publishing API? Interested in automating the process of submitting a show RSS, similarly to how Captivate allows this from within their user dashboard.

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Authorization Code Flow Refresh Tokens

I am building an application which requires the refreshing of user Spotify stats (followers, playlists, etc) on a weekly basis. About two months after a user gives my web application access to their Spotify, I begin to get errors regarding the token ...

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I am building an application which requires the refreshing of user Spotify stats (followers, playlists, etc) on a weekly basis. About two months after a user gives my web application access to their ...

jhyde01

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Superuser Contribution "User not approved for app" for another member in the premium family plan in development mode

PlanFamily PremiumCountryUSDeviceWindowsOperating SystemWindows My Question or IssueMy app in development can allow myself to run but the app returned "User not approved for app" even after I have added the member's email in the dev dashboard for 24 ...

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Plan Family Premium Country US Device Windows Operating System Windows   My Question or Issue My app in development can allow myself to run but the app returned "User not approved for ...

ohej

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