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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...
My Question or IssueWhilst you can fetch user's playback history, you can't fetch the user's playback queue, from what I've been able to find.It would be super helpful to be able to query what the upcoming track is, or even the next few tracks. Spoti...
My Question or Issue Whilst you can fetch user's playback history, you can't fetch the user's playback queue, from what I've been able to find. It would be super helpful to be able to query what th...
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Hi, I am working on creating an internal only (for the people of the company I work for) app. The idea is to have everyone who wants to participate auth once (via oauth). Then I will have a daily job that runs to tabulate the most popular steams by e...
Hi, I am working on creating an internal only (for the people of the company I work for) app. The idea is to have everyone who wants to participate auth once (via oauth). Then I will have a daily job...
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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 order to avoid rate limiting, however, this is the...
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...
Roadie
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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...
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...
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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...
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 ...
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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 expiring after 1 hour. I'm using Vue (or specifically Nuxt) if...
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...
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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 ...
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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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 ...
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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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 ...
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 ...
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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...
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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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...
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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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 ...
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 ...
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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 question is: can i use the word "Spotify" inside my app name a...
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 ...
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PlanFreeCountryUnited StatesDevice(Desktop)Operating System(Windows 10) My Question or IssueHello, I'm currently making an app on Desktop (no backend) with React where a user can see their top songs and artists. I'm using the Implicit Grant Flow Auth...
Plan Free Country United States Device (Desktop) Operating System (Windows 10) My Question or Issue Hello, I'm currently making an app on Desktop (no backend) with React where a user...
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I want to pull just the artist name and track name using the "https://api.spotify.com/v1/playlists/{playlist_id}/tracks" call. The documentation says "Fields can be excluded by prefixing them with an exclamation mark", so I've tried to narrow down th...
I want to pull just the artist name and track name using the "https://api.spotify.com/v1/playlists/{playlist_id}/tracks" call. The documentation says "Fields can be excluded by prefixing them wi...
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Hi all, I try to upload an image as cover of my playlist through an application. However, no example request is provided. Can someone help me out? Regarding the call "Upload a Custom Playlist Cover Image" see https://developer.spotify.com/console/put...
Hi all, I try to upload an image as cover of my playlist through an application. However, no example request is provided. Can someone help me out? Regarding the call "Upload a Custom Playlis...
Roadie
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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.
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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My Question or Issue In the Spotify app, you can list all songs from a genre by typing `genre:foo` in the search bar.For instance, if i type genre:vaporwave in the search bar, i get a list of vaporwave songs.How do i retrieve this list with the Web A...
My Question or Issue In the Spotify app, you can list all songs from a genre by typing `genre:foo` in the search bar. For instance, if i type genre:vaporwave in the search bar, i get a li...
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Hi,Im working on an app with Ionic where I add the Spotify embedded Podcast Player to play Podcast episodes. On Browser and Android App everything is working very well but within the iPhone App I see the player and can press "Play" but after that the...
Hi, Im working on an app with Ionic where I add the Spotify embedded Podcast Player to play Podcast episodes. On Browser and Android App everything is working very well but within the iPhon...
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When a user streams some tracks while being part of a group session/listening party, those streams are not included in the /me/player/recently-played endpoint.Is there any way to include those streams in the response? Or are there any plans to includ...
When a user streams some tracks while being part of a group session/listening party, those streams are not included in the /me/player/recently-played endpoint. Is there any way to include tho...
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