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/playlists API Endpoint Issue Fixed

We wanted to provide an update regarding issues identified in the “/playlists” API endpoints. We have investigated the reported concerns of null results appearing in responses and have fixed the behaviour in the “/me/playlists” and “/users/{user_id}/...

  • Spotify
  • Spotify
  • AdrienCompDev
  • Casual Listener
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  • Possible Bug
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Scopes for creating/adding to a playlist

hi there!i'm trying to create a new playlist with python and add songs to it. i have recieved an access token after asking for -playlist-modify-private+playlist-modify-public scopes, and now i can read my private playlists but cant create new ones or...

  • Visitor
  • hi there! i'm trying to create a new playlist with python and add songs to it.  i have recieved an access token after asking for - playlist-modify-private+playlist-modify-public scopes, and ...
  • kevinguebert
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Superuser Contribution Website Spotify Embed not Working

Hi, I am attempting to embed the Spotify song player iframe on a website. I have copied the iframe code from Spotify and pasted onto my web page. However the iframe does not load and gives the following console errors:My embed code:

Could someone p...

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  • Casual Listener
  • Hi, I am attempting to embed the Spotify song player iframe on a website. I have copied the iframe code from Spotify and pasted onto my web page. However the iframe does not load and gives the follow...
  • alicemaserati
  • Casual Listener
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  • 2 replies
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  • Spotify Embed
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500 internal error using PaaS, working fine on local

Hi!I am developing a tool that takes songs of Youtube and creates a playlists in Spotify. I have run the application succesfully in local, but I get an error when I try it in Elastic Beanstalk, the PaaS of Amazon. I am using a Flask server and the Sp...

  • Visitor
  • Hi! I am developing a tool that takes songs of Youtube and creates a playlists in Spotify. I have run the application succesfully in local, but I get an error when I try it in Elastic Beansta...
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  • 500 server error
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The OR operator in the Search API doesn't work

I'm trying to look for tracks by either ISRC ID, or by both track name and artist name, I try to do so in a single request using the OR operator in the search API endpoint but it doesn't really work. When I search by ISRC ID alone it works /search?ty...

  • Regular
  • I'm trying to look for tracks by either ISRC ID, or by both track name and artist name, I try to do so in a single request using the OR operator in the search API endpoint but it doesn't really work....
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  • ISRC
    Search failure
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Having user ID in url for playlist returns error page

PlanNoneCountry DeviceAny mobile phone, desktop computerOperating SystemWindows, Linux, Mac, Android, iOS Hi,Inside of the app we have a place with webview and html for playlist like this:https://open.spotify.com/embed/user/f7y2jlvl3hdr6wh6blg2nef64/...

  • Casual Listener
  • Plan None Country   Device Any mobile phone, desktop computer Operating System Windows, Linux, Mac, Android, iOS   Hi, Inside of the app we have a place with webview and html for ...
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Superuser Contribution Embedded iFrame Redirect not functioning

I've embedded the iFrame widget into the header of my website. But upon clicking the button, nothing happens -- it appears the redirect STARTS, but never completes. iFrame: HOWEVER, if you extract JUST the URL from that iFrame and paste it into a ne...

  • Casual Listener
  • I've embedded the iFrame widget into the header of my website. But upon clicking the button, nothing happens -- it appears the redirect STARTS, but never completes.    iFrame:  <...
  • _milena
  • Roadie
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  • error code
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Superuser Contribution [Web Player][Developer] Cursor for 'Get new code' text in login through mobile number page

I have noticed a behaviour in spotify web Application. While logging in through mobile number "Get new code" text is not showing a anchor cursor tag (mouse cursor) rather it is showing as a text pointer. User might get confused whether it is actually...

  • Visitor
  • I have noticed a behaviour in spotify web Application. While logging in through mobile number "Get new code" text is not showing a anchor cursor tag (mouse cursor) rather it is showing as a text...
  • _milena
  • Roadie
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    Web Player
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Superuser Contribution 404 Error for /v1/me/feature-flags?tests=tps_send_all_updates

Plan: PremiumCountry: USADevice: Spotify Web API Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:81.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/81.0 My Question or Issue:I've been getting the following error in my browser's console:"GET https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/...

  • Casual Listener
  • Plan: Premium Country: USA Device: Spotify Web API Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:81.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/81.0   My Question or Issue: I've been getting the following...
  • _milena
  • Roadie
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Solved!! No Option to Submit Apps for Community Showcase

According to the 2014 post by Chris Hughes, the following link should allow us to submit our apps for the showcase, but is now showing a 404 error: https://developer.spotify.com/community/showcase/submit-your-app/ Furthermore, the showcase page doesn...

  • Casual Listener
  • According to the 2014 post by Chris Hughes, the following link should allow us to submit our apps for the showcase, but is now showing a 404 error: https://developer.spotify.com/community/showcase/su...
  • FrozenDarkMatte
  • Casual Listener
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How to get audio analysis for podcast episode?

PlanPremiumCountryDenmark My Question or IssueI'm looking into the possibility of using your API and I can find an endpoint to get audio features for a track (here: https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/tracks/get-audio-analys...

  • Casual Listener
  • Plan Premium Country Denmark   My Question or Issue I'm looking into the possibility of using your API and I can find an endpoint to get audio features for a track (here: https://deve...
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  • 6 likes
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    Podcast Episodes
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Solved!! Tracking Position in Playlist

My Question or IssueI am attempting to get the current position in a playlist as the playlist is played. I have ran into 2 issues.Issue #1: I get all of the playlist's track URI's and I get the URI of the current track. The issue is that the current ...

  • Regular
  • My Question or Issue I am attempting to get the current position in a playlist as the playlist is played. I have ran into 2 issues. Issue #1: I get all of the playlist's track URI's and I get the U...
  • jwaugh3
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Superuser Contribution Dummy premium accounts for library developers

Hello! I'm a developer from the rspotify library, a Rust wrapper for the Spotify Web API. I also worked on tekore a bit, which is another wrapper but written in Python. The issue I'm facing at rspotify is that to run tests that require OAuth automati...

  • Regular
  • Hello!   I'm a developer from the rspotify library, a Rust wrapper for the Spotify Web API. I also worked on tekore a bit, which is another wrapper but written in Python.   The issue I'...
  • marioom
  • Regular
  • 3566 Views
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  • Discussion
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Bad gateway

This is a really finicky error, and wondering if anyone else has seen it, and how to deal with it. For me, it's easily recreatable when flipping between the ios spotify app, and the web based browser application. For instance, when initially authoriz...

  • Regular
  • This is a really finicky error, and wondering if anyone else has seen it, and how to deal with it.   For me, it's easily recreatable when flipping between the ios spotify app, and the web base...
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  • SpotifyAPI
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Solved!! Unable to use PKCE authorization: code_verifier was incorrect

I'm trying to implement the PKCE authorization flow and as far as I can tell, I've done so correctly, but Spotify always says the code_verifier is incorrect. This is my code to create the login URL: this.verifyCode = getRandomString(64) const codeCha...

  • Casual Listener
  • I'm trying to implement the PKCE authorization flow and as far as I can tell, I've done so correctly, but Spotify always says the code_verifier is incorrect.   This is my code to create the lo...
  • Peter_Schorn
  • Roadie
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  • authorization
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Superuser Contribution Listening to music together -Premium and Free accounts-

I've seen some products in the app store which connect Spotify Premium users and enable people to listen to music together synchronously. I would like to ask if this is possible for Spotify Free users as well. Is item 2 and 3 below feasible through t...

  • Visitor
  • I've seen some products in the app store which connect Spotify Premium users and enable people to listen to music together synchronously. I would like to ask if this is possible for Spotify Free user...
  • _milena
  • Roadie
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  • api
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Solved!!Superuser Contribution How to submit my Spotify based web app?

I want to submit my Spotify based app so that it could be added to the Developer showcase section. What are the steps for the same? I have the app ready. Thanks in advance

  • Roadie
  • I want to submit my Spotify based app so that it could be added to the Developer showcase section. What are the steps for the same? I have the app ready.   Thanks in advance  
  • _milena
  • Roadie
  • 1969 Views
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  • Developer
    developer showcase
    SpotifyAPI
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Solved!! Spotify Codes - How do they work?

I am trying to understand how Spotify Codes work technically, and I can't find any information on them. My answer to this question on stack overflow shows some of the digging I've done: https://stackoverflow.com/a/62120952/10703868 My question is, ho...

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  • Casual Listener
  • I am trying to understand how Spotify Codes work technically, and I can't find any information on them. My answer to this question on stack overflow shows some of the digging I've done: https://...
  • RoguePlanetoid
  • Roadie
  • 15800 Views
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  • Discussion
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SDK error on PUT request at "Pause a User's Playback" Endpoint

PlanPremiumCountryAustralia DeviceDell XPSOperating SystemLinux Peppermint My Question or Issue I've successfully been able to play a track via the SDK. However, once the song start playing, I can't seem to get it to pause. A fetch request to the "Pa...

  • Casual Listener
  • Plan Premium Country Australia   Device Dell XPS Operating System Linux Peppermint   My Question or Issue   I've successfully been able to play a track via the SDK. However...
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Superuser Contribution I think Getting User's Saved Tracks from a user on a Family Plan fails.

Basically title. I'm not sure if there is an alternate request I should use but I've been using this one. GET https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/tracksI can't confirm the family plan is causing the issue but, it works for all other users on my app except ...

  • Regular
  • Basically title. I'm not sure if there is an alternate request I should use but I've been using this one.  GET https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/tracks I can't confirm the family plan is causing t...
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Developer Showcase App Submission

Hello, I developed a web app, and waiting to submit it for months. There are other topics about it with no informative replies. Could someone please enlighten us about estimated duration to solve this problem. Or did you stop the maintain Developer S...

  • Casual Listener
  • Hello,   I developed a web app, and waiting to submit it for months. There are other topics about it with no informative replies. Could someone please enlighten us about estimated duration to ...
  • alpdal
  • Casual Listener
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  • developer showcase
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