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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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Quota Extension rejection

Plan: PremiumCountry: Canada Hello Spotify team and community. I submitted a request for a quota extension, and it was rejected after a few hours.The reasons given were the following:You did not provide enough information for us to assess your applic...

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Plan: Premium Country: Canada   Hello Spotify team and community.   I submitted a request for a quota extension, and it was rejected after a few hours. The reasons given were the...

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Spotify OAuth not Listing Requested Scopes to User

For some reason when I'm having the user authenticate to get a refresh token, Spotify is just asking the user to log in, it's not listing scopes.I'd like users to know which scopes I'm asking for, how do I make it tell them?This is the url I'm hittin...

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For some reason when I'm having the user authenticate to get a refresh token, Spotify is just asking the user to log in, it's not listing scopes. I'd like users to know which scopes I'm asking for, ...

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Can't check account's Full Name to use it in "Users and Access" page

Hey! Recently, I have made an application on developer.spotify.comI have added one account into "Users and Access" page, since I've remembered what the Full Name of the account was. Unfortunately, on the other hand, I have another account which's Ful...

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Hey!   Recently, I have made an application on developer.spotify.com I have added one account into "Users and Access" page, since I've remembered what the Full Name of the account was. U...

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[WEBAPI] group sessions

PlanPremiumCountryUSDeviceDesktop PCOperating SystemLinux My Question or Issue Are there any plans to add group session endpoints to webapi? I'm looking to build an integration between discord (bot) and spotify that functions as a control mechanism f...

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Plan Premium Country US Device Desktop PC Operating System Linux   My Question or Issue   Are there any plans to add group session endpoints to webapi? I'm looking to build an ...

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How to retrieve the 'Your Top Songs' playlists for all users?

Hello!I'm trying to find a way to identify the 'Top Songs (year)' playlists that Spotify creates yearly for each user. They all exist in the platform (they can be searched), but I can't find a way to systematically obtain their id or their uri for ea...

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Hello! I'm trying to find a way to identify the 'Top Songs (year)' playlists that Spotify creates yearly for each user.  They all exist in the platform (they can be searched), but I can't find...

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Spotify For Artists playlist is gone

Good afternoon people! I'm having a problem with one of our playlists. We have a 100% organic playlist with great engagement, with more than 4k followers and more than 16k listens. This playlist is NO LONGER appearing on Spotify For Artists. Does any...

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Good afternoon people! I'm having a problem with one of our playlists. We have a 100% organic playlist with great engagement, with more than 4k followers and more than 16k listens. This playlist is N...

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Spotify connect no longer works!

Hello, I can no longer connect to my demon AVR RECEIVER FROM THE SPOTIFY APP USING WI FI. I can only connect via Bluetooth which will interrupt the music playing when a phone call comes in or you watch a video on YouTube where before it would not. I’...

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Hello, I can no longer connect to my demon AVR RECEIVER FROM THE SPOTIFY APP USING WI FI. I can only connect via Bluetooth which will interrupt the music playing when a phone call comes in or you wat...

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spotify-web-api-node authenticate user

Hey guys, I'm trying to use the library "spotify-web-api-node" the function "getMe" and when I use my token accountant (Spotify developer) it works but when the other accountant doesn't work and returns error 403.Why happens this problem? I'm a novat...

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Hey guys, I'm trying to use the library "spotify-web-api-node" the function "getMe"  and when I use my token accountant (Spotify developer) it works but when the other accountant doesn't work an...

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Rate limits for apps

Home Assistant allows users to connect their Spotify account to automate their home based on the music they are playing, or control the music as part of an automation. To be able to do this reliably we poll the player status API (currently every 30 s...

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Home Assistant allows users to connect their Spotify account to automate their home based on the music they are playing, or control the music as part of an automation.   To be able to do this ...

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How to create a playlist by randomly sampling other playlists?

Hello. Let's start with context: I'm trying to create a playlist for a ballroom party. It is important to change styles every 3-4 songs. Let's say I want 3 salsa songs to play, then 3 samba songs, then 3 Brazilian zouk songs, then repeat the sequence...

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Hello. Let's start with context: I'm trying to create a playlist for a ballroom party. It is important to change styles every 3-4 songs. Let's say I want 3 salsa songs to play, then 3 samba songs, th...

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Get total minutes listen

I have a question, exist a method to calculate how many minutes the user already listen ?

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I have a question, exist a method to calculate how many minutes the user already listen ? 

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watchOS SDK Support

Hey Team,We are working on a watchOS app where we need users to be able to select specific tracks from the watch app itself and play similar to the Spotify watch app.Is there any way we can achieve this through Spotify Web API or is there any watchOS...

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Hey Team, We are working on a watchOS app where we need users to be able to select specific tracks from the watch app itself and play similar to the Spotify watch app. Is there any way we can achie...

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Superuser Contribution 502 Bad Gateway for /me/tracks and /me/albums

PlanPremiumCountryUSA Hi - I tried replying to a recent unresolved thread with this same problem but got not response from Spotify: https://community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-for-Developers/Getting-a-502-bad-gateway-when-trying-to-read-me-tracks/td-p/5...

Music Fan

Plan Premium Country USA   Hi -  I tried replying to a recent unresolved thread with this same problem but got not response from Spotify: https://community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify...

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What are the minimum JS requirements for the Playback SDK?

I'm looking to implement the Playback SDK in a JavaFX app using the WebView component. The aim is for the JavaFX interface to control the player, and the player is just there as a skeleton to play music (since the only way to do playback currently is...

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I'm looking to implement the Playback SDK in a JavaFX app using the WebView component. The aim is for the JavaFX interface to control the player, and the player is just there as a skeleton to play mu...

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Autenticate player endpoint

Hi, I'm building a simple playlist curation site and want to be able to start playback on the users' Spotify app via the website, just like the embeds work. But I want to do it with my design. I've found the 'https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/player/play...

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Hi,   I'm building a simple playlist curation site and want to be able to start playback on the users' Spotify app via the website, just like the embeds work. But I want to do it with my desig...

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Superuser Contribution Unclear ban of integration with chatbots

I'm looking for an explanation on an ambiguous prohibited use case, and a more reasonable way to appeal on a quota extension rejection without refilling the entire form and waiting for an automatic response that does not explain the inconsistencies i...

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I'm looking for an explanation on an ambiguous prohibited use case, and a more reasonable way to appeal on a quota extension rejection without refilling the entire form and waiting for an automatic r...

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Access token from Authorization Code Flow requires specific parameter order

PlanPremiumCountryFranceOperating SystemWindows 10My Question or IssueHello,I'm new to the Spotify community. I'm trying to implement Oauth2 in my application and it seems like I found a bug. Normally speaking, HTTP parameters does not have any order...

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Plan Premium Country France Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue Hello, I'm new to the Spotify community. I'm trying to implement Oauth2 in my application and it seems like I foun...

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Flutter social app & Spotify Music to Stories

Hi friends,I'm developing a social app in flutter I want to use the Spotify library to add music on video & stories like on FB, Instagram or TikTok what are the rights to achieve this, what are the copyrights for this, can be this done with Spotify?T...

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Hi friends, I'm developing a social app in flutter I want to use the Spotify library to add music on video & stories like on FB, Instagram or TikTok what are the rights to achieve this, what a...

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Clarification of Spotify data export structure

The documentation of the Spotify data export has this to say about the respective json keys: tsThis field is a timestamp indicating when the track stopped playing in UTC (Coordinated Universal Time). The order is year, month and day followed by a tim...

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The documentation of the Spotify data export has this to say about the respective json keys:   ts This field is a timestamp indicating when the track stopped playing in UTC (Coordinated Un...

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Superuser Contribution Web Playback SDK unable to launch player

PlanPremiumCountryUnited Kingdom My Question or IssueHello! I was trying to build a web player controlled by Spotify app on my phone. I have Premium. I followed the guide below: https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-playback-sdk/guide/ Howe...

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Plan Premium Country United Kingdom   My Question or Issue Hello! I was trying to build a web player controlled by Spotify app on my phone. I have Premium. I followed the guide below:&nbsp...

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