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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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Superuser Contribution API - Local Files

Hi Spotify, I'm trying to find out how the local files are stored. How can I move these files (that are in "Local files" within Spotify) to a playlist. In the API I can add songs to a playlist, but there's no description for local files. I'd love to ...

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Hi Spotify,   I'm trying to find out how the local files are stored. How can I move these files (that are in "Local files" within Spotify) to a playlist. In the API I can add songs to a playli...

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Can't get Access Token

Plan Free Country Russian Federation Operating System Ubuntu My Question or Issue I am getting "error":"invalid_client" when trying to get Access Tokencurl --location --request POST 'https://accounts.spotify.com/token' \--header 'Content-Type: applic...

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  Plan Free Country Russian Federation Operating System Ubuntu   My Question or Issue I am getting "error":"invalid_client" when trying to get Access Token curl --locatio...

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Spotify SDK issue

I m trying to user embed Spotify App Remote SDK in my app.When Spotify application was not in login in status, App Remote SDK was not able to redirect to Login in page of Spotify application. Does anyone know how to solve this? Thanks!

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I m trying to user embed Spotify App Remote SDK in my app. When Spotify application was not in login in status, App Remote SDK was not able to redirect to Login in page of Spotify application. ...

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Authorization Code Flow - don't want to cache tokens

I am building an app utilizing spotipy and getting a user's top tracks and artists. It is caching the tokens and making it so that my data (or the cached token user's data) is displayed regardless of who logs in. How can I fix this without deleting t...

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    I am building an app utilizing spotipy and getting a user's top tracks and artists. It is caching the tokens and making it so that my data (or the cached token user's data) is display...

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Solved!! Unable to get current user's saved tracks with free account (via API)

I try to get the user's saved tracks (See API: https://developer.spotify.com/console/get-current-user-saved-tracks/)When doing so with a premium account, everything works as planned.But when I try it with a free account, i get "HTTP Error 403: Forbid...

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I try to get the user's saved tracks (See API: https://developer.spotify.com/console/get-current-user-saved-tracks/) When doing so with a premium account, everything works as planned. But when...

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Solved!! Create Playlist endpoint returning a 403 error

I am using the oauth flow with refresh_token and access_token, with the following scopes: 'user-read-private user-library-read playlist-read-private playlist-modify-private playlist-modify-public playlist-read-collaborative' I was able to successfull...

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I am using the oauth flow with refresh_token and access_token, with the following scopes:  'user-read-private user-library-read playlist-read-private playlist-modify-private playlist-modify-pu...

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Creating an application made for self-hosting

PlanPremiumCountryGermanyDeviceBackendOperating SystemLinux/Windows My Question or IssueHi,I'd like to create an application, which users of the application have to host themself to use it. I plan to develop a kind-of jukebox application. As a party ...

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Plan Premium Country Germany Device Backend Operating System Linux/Windows   My Question or Issue Hi, I'd like to create an application, which users of the application have to host th...

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Possible bug/inconsistency found in the "get album by id" operation

Hello, I am writing this post because I have found a possible bug/inconsistency in the API implementation. By using the endpoint “/v1/markets”, a list of all the available markets is returned. However, when testing the operation “get album by Id”, th...

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Hello, I am writing this post because I have found a possible bug/inconsistency in the API implementation. By using the endpoint “/v1/markets”, a list of all the available markets is returned. Howeve...

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Solved!! Can a backend fully control one Spotify account even though many users use it

PlanPremiumCountryDenmarkDevicePCOperating SystemWindows 11My Question or IssueWhat I need is only one Spotify account connected to my app and users of my app should be able to request songs to be added to the queue and then my backend would be the o...

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Plan Premium Country Denmark Device PC Operating System Windows 11 My Question or Issue What I need is only one Spotify account connected to my app and users of my app should be able to requ...

Peter_Schorn

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Add Rspotify to the "Web API Libraries" page

I'm one of the maintainers of Rspotify, the most popular library for the Spotify API in the Rust programming language. Back in July of 2020, when the spotify/web-api repo was still used for tickets like this one, I asked the devs to add Rspotify to t...

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I'm one of the maintainers of Rspotify, the most popular library for the Spotify API in the Rust programming language.   Back in July of 2020, when the spotify/web-api repo was still used for ...

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API /views endpoint unauthorized discover playlists

Hello,I'm currently developing an app where I want to get the user's discover playlists. I did it by searching the user's library by name. The problems with this approach are: If you follow multiple lets say "Discover Weekly" playlists, they are indi...

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Hello, I'm currently developing an app where I want to get the user's discover playlists. I did it by searching the user's library by name. The problems with this approach are: If you follow multipl...

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Sporadic login failures

When logging in from our app, we're experiencing sporadic login failures. We see a generic error. Is anyone else experiencing this?Logging in from an Android Device.

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When logging in from our app, we're experiencing sporadic login failures. We see a generic error. Is anyone else experiencing this? Logging in from an Android Device.

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Need Premium web apis for app.

PlanPremiumCountryUs Device(All iOS & Android Devices)Operating System(iOS, Android) I want to integrate the web apis in my app on android and ios, Please can you confirm the premium plans of the apis executions.Actually currently I have used your ap...

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Plan Premium Country Us   Device (All iOS & Android Devices) Operating System (iOS, Android)   I want to integrate the web apis in my app on android and ios, Please can you co...

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Cannot request quota extension (unauthorized)

I don't know if this is the right place to put this, but there is maybe some error with spotify dev. I am trying to submit a quota extension request, but when I attach screenshots of my app or a screencast, I'm getting an 'unauthorized' error.

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I don't know if this is the right place to put this, but there is maybe some error with spotify dev. I am trying to submit a quota extension request, but when I attach screenshots of my app or a scre...

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Ambiguous error message - Error Domain=com.spotify.sdk.login Code=3

Hi, my IOS application just started not to work ever since the Spotify crash that happened earlier today. I'm not sure if it's because of that but I got this error code that I have searched the internet for but no one seems to have any info about it....

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Hi, my IOS application just started not to work ever since the Spotify crash that happened earlier today. I'm not sure if it's because of that but I got this error code that I have searched the inter...

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Am I allowed to use album art in a radio station app? (now playing + spotify album art)

Hi, I'm creating apps for a radio station and I'm wondering if I can use the Spotify API to show album art next to their live stream. The album art is visible in their 'now playing' interface. I know that we have to add the Spotify logo as stated in ...

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Hi, I'm creating apps for a radio station and I'm wondering if I can use the Spotify API to show album art next to their live stream. The album art is visible in their 'now playing' interface.  ...

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how to get approved for simple auth api for my website login ?

hello im new to this but im working on to separate apis, first one is so simple and i just need to move it from development mode, i dont know how to Request extension to allow users to login through Spotify auth. (its already built by my developer us...

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  hello im new to this but im working on to separate apis,  first one is so simple and i just need to move it from development mode, i dont know how to Request extension to allow users to...

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Get 429 lifted

Hi I've been working on a Spotify application for a school project and I didn't realize it was continuously sending requests. I need the assignment to work but now I have a Retry-After of 9.5 hrs. I think I fixed the issue now and wanted to know if t...

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Hi I've been working on a Spotify application for a school project and I didn't realize it was continuously sending requests. I need the assignment to work but now I have a Retry-After of 9.5 hrs. &...

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INVALID_CLIENT: Invalid client issue

PlanPremiumCountryUSAOperating SystemWindows 10My Question or IssueAny time I try to login and authorize using our app, I get this error "INVALID_CLIENT: Invalid client". This isn't an issue for anyone else working on the app. Any ideas?

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Plan Premium Country USA Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue Any time I try to login and authorize using our app, I get this error "INVALID_CLIENT: Invalid client". This isn't an ...

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High number of 503 errors again

The API endpoint that returns a user's top artists and tracks is returning a high number of 503 errors again!

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The API endpoint that returns a user's top artists and tracks is returning a high number of 503 errors again!

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