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February 2026 Spotify for Developers update: thread

Hey everyone, I’ve created this thread to provide an open space for discussion, feedback, concerns or ideas on an upcoming update to Spotify for Developers access. We’ve shared a blog post that explains what’s changing and why. Please use this thread...

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Errors in authorization code flow documentation for refreshing token?

According to the authorization code flow documentation, in order to use a refresh token to receive a new access token we need to POST a request to https://accounts.spotify.com/api/token with the following fields in the x-www-form-urlencoded body: gra...

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According to the authorization code flow documentation, in order to use a refresh token to receive a new access token we need to POST a request to https://accounts.spotify.com/api/token with the...

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How can we play a song in iOS native app using Spotify Web Playback SDK?

PlanPremium My Question or Issue What I have tried is I have made one HTML page and used this page in SFSafariController and played a song but I am facing some issues. (https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-playback-sdk/quick-start/)1. How ...

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Plan Premium   My Question or Issue   What I have tried is I have made one HTML page and used this page in SFSafariController and played a song but I am facing some issues. (https://de...

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Adding mediaSession support

Copy of https://github.com/spotify/web-playback-sdk/issues/105 Hi, Chrome recently rolled out some UI feature related to mediaSession, which displays some information about the track we are playing and provides some navigation UI.As the "audio" eleme...

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Copy of https://github.com/spotify/web-playback-sdk/issues/105   Hi,   Chrome recently rolled out some UI feature related to mediaSession, which displays some information about the...

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Solved!! Search endpoint bug

I was trying to use search endpoint("https://api.spotify.com/v1/search"), but response return empty items. As ex. of response(changed link-title, because system doesn't allow):"tracks": { "": "https://api.spotify.com/v1/search?query=remaster%2520trac...

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I was trying to use search endpoint("https://api.spotify.com/v1/search"), but response return empty items. As ex. of response(changed link-title, because system doesn't allow): "tracks": { "": "...

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iframe get spotify list

PlanFreeCountry DevicepcOperating Systemubuntu My Question or Issuetried to get the list of my spotify list with iframe and it won't let me

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Plan Free Country   Device pc Operating System ubuntu   My Question or Issue tried to get the list of my spotify list with iframe and it won't let me  

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Episode uri not supported /player/play

Currently, there is no other way to start the playback of a podcast other than using the /me/player/play and the podcast's show context uri. However, this always starts the podcast on its first episode. It is not possible to play a specific episode b...

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Currently, there is no other way to start the playback of a podcast other than using the /me/player/play and the podcast's show context uri. However, this always starts the podcast on its first ...

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Getting a list of podcast episodes without authentication

I'm trying to fetch a simple list of the latest podcast episodes using JavaScript to ping the Spotify API. All I need is the list of episodes and the link to the relevant episode on Spotify, so that I can link each card to spotify.com on a public web...

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I'm trying to fetch a simple list of the latest podcast episodes using JavaScript to ping the Spotify API. All I need is the list of episodes and the link to the relevant episode on Spotify, so that ...

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spotify on another service

I'm a design student, I just wanted to ask if it would be okay to use music from spotify for another business? it is not a real company, but if it were, how would the process be like, legally speaking? it's a hypothetical product which connects to sp...

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I'm a design student, I just wanted to ask if it would be okay to use music from spotify for another business? it is not a real company, but if it were, how would the process be like, legally speakin...

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Problem with get recently played tracks

PlanFreeCountrySpainDevice(PC)Operating System(Ubuntu 20.04) My Question or IssueI'm triyng to get the last played song using this code: $ch3 = curl_init(); //Indicas el endpoint de la peticion $endpoint = 'https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/player/recent...

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Plan Free Country Spain Device (PC) Operating System (Ubuntu 20.04)   My Question or Issue I'm triyng to get the last played song using this code:     $ch3 = curl_init(); ...

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Superuser Contribution Developer Site Web-API reference Docs not working

DeviceIphone 6 - Safari My Question or IssueWhen accessing the page at https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/ it asks you you to select an endpoint from the drop down menu. As soon as I do nothing happens and there is no “go” ...

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Device Iphone 6 - Safari   My Question or Issue When accessing the page at  https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/    it asks you you to select an e...

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Genre of a Podcast is not available in API Data

My Question or Issue The tags/genres attached to a podcast (For example: https://open.spotify.com/show/6vaEao0SXlarPUUBSdvb4T. This contains the tags/genres 'Finance' and 'Technology') are not present while fetching data through the API. Is there any...

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My Question or Issue    The tags/genres attached to a podcast (For example: https://open.spotify.com/show/6vaEao0SXlarPUUBSdvb4T. This contains the tags/genres 'Finance' and 'Technology')...

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Superuser Contribution app is not approving for the quota extension

Hello Team, I have implemented Spotify in my iOS app which called PickleJar Live for login and getting users's profile. Currently app is in development mode. now I am requesting for quota extension because app is live in App Store. I have so many use...

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Hello Team,    I have implemented Spotify in my iOS app which called PickleJar Live for login and getting users's profile. Currently app is in development mode. now I am requesting for qu...

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A440 vs A432

Dear Spotify,I’m contacting you as, perhaps another, faithful and loyal Spotify customer with a huge wish, allowing integration of the 432Player app with Spotify.There’s an app, called 432Player, that successfully integrated the Spotify SDK with thei...

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Dear Spotify, I’m contacting you as, perhaps another, faithful and loyal Spotify customer with a huge wish, allowing integration of the 432Player app with Spotify. There’s an app, called 432Player,...

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Cover image analysis

PlanPremiumCountryGermany My Question or IssueHelloIm planning to program a neuronal network for a project in UNI that can find Songs based of the genre and the cover image. For that i would need the cover images of songs in Spotify so the network ca...

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Plan Premium Country Germany   My Question or Issue Hello Im planning to program a neuronal network for a project in UNI that can find Songs based of the genre and the cover image. For th...

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Small omission on code flow auth guide

https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/general/guides/authorization/code-flow/ In the section about requesting an access token, the guide does not make it clear that the "Authorization" header is not required if implementing the PKCE extension. ...

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https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/general/guides/authorization/code-flow/   In the section about requesting an access token, the guide does not make it clear that the "Authorization"...

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Is it possible to to view either (A) who a user follows or (B) who follows a user?

As of 2020, I don't think either (A) or (B) were possible. But I am wondering if this changed? Essentially, given a Spotify ID, X , I want to be able to extract either:- A list of Spotify IDs that X follows OR- A list of Spotify IDs that follow X Are...

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As of 2020, I don't think either (A) or (B) were possible. But I am wondering if this changed?    Essentially, given a Spotify ID, X , I want to be able to extract either: - A ...

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Get User's Top Tracks time_range parameter does not seem to work

PlanPremiumCountryUSADeviceN/AOperating SystemN/A My Question or IssueWhen I try to hit this endpoint https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/tracks?offset=0&limit=50&time_range=long_term , the time_range parameter appears to not function as expected. Regardle...

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  Plan Premium Country USA Device N/A Operating System N/A   My Question or Issue When I try to hit this endpoint https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/tracks?offset=0&limit=50&t...

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Spotify App quota extension request keeps getting rejected

Plan: PremiumCountry: USI am calling the /artists/?ids= API to get artist info.I display the artist image and a link to their Spotify profile using the following img tag on my site with the data referenced below directly coming from the API response ...

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Plan: Premium Country: US I am calling the /artists/?ids= API to get artist info. I display the artist image and a link to their Spotify profile using the following img tag on my site with ...

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Spotify errors

PlanPremiumCountryAustraliaDeviceiPhone XROperating SystemSoftware 15.4.1 (latest update) My Question or IssueWhen I switch back to Spotify from any other app, it either stops playing or starts my podcast from the start again.

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Plan Premium Country Australia Device iPhone XR Operating System Software 15.4.1 (latest update)   My Question or Issue When I switch back to Spotify from any other app, it either stop...

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Determining if Spotify Playback SDK is streaming regardless of User's toggling

When the network connection is poor, the playback pauses. With Spotify Webplayback SDK's 'player_state_changed' event, you can't determine if this happened. In this event, it only fires and returns state.paused = false when user intentionally paused ...

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When the network connection is poor, the playback pauses. With Spotify Webplayback SDK's 'player_state_changed' event, you can't determine if this happened. In this event, it only fires and returns s...

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