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Changes to Web API

Folks, some news on changes to the web API has been posted on the Spotify For Developers blog. We want to reiterate the main message from the blog that we're committed to providing a safe and secure environment for all Spotify stakeholders. As such w...

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  • spencerthayer
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Important: App review and quota extension waiting times

The Spotify for developers platform helps many bring their ideas to life. Whether it's a short term app helping an artist’s release or something more long term - there is always a chance of success. Things start to grow and then you might also need w...

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  • bartubrt
  • Casual Listener
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Solved!! Development mode API key, User Management, login with Google

Hello, My API key is in the Development quota mode (https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/concepts/quota-modes). I've followed the directions to add testers under the User Management tab. Most of my testers are able to login without any...

  • Casual Listener
  • Hello,   My API key is in the Development quota mode (https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/concepts/quota-modes). I've followed the directions to add testers under the User Mana...
  • zanderpaul
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Whenever I play the song, after few seconds the sound doesn't come

Whenever I play the song, after few seconds the sound doesn't come but music keeps playing then I open app and puse and play the song after some time it happens again and I am facing this problem since I was not a premium member, when I will buy your...

  • Newbie
  • Whenever I play the song, after few seconds the sound doesn't come but music keeps playing then I open app and puse and play the song after some time it happens again and I am facing this problem sin...
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Superuser Contribution Display Canvas Clip full screen on Laptop

On a desktop app your playlist artwork is to the right however certain tracks have a "canvas" music video that plays with the song. I want to be able to load this in the Miniplayer and make it full screen like you can with the standard artwork.

  • Visitor
  • On a desktop app your playlist artwork is to the right however certain tracks have a "canvas" music video that plays with the song. I want to be able to load this in the Miniplayer and make it full s...
  • looniee
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Postman vs SoapUI for Spotify API?

Hi all,I would just like to ask whether Postman or SoapUI would be better for working with Spotify's API? It seems that these two choices are very popular among developers.However, aside from Postman and SoapUI, I have also been recommended a couple ...

  • Regular
  • Hi all, I would just like to ask whether Postman or SoapUI would be better for working with Spotify's API? It seems that these two choices are very popular among developers. However, aside from...
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401's on some, not all, search API calls

I have an app that maintains a ranking of my most played songs over certain periods. I get this ranked list from last.fm, which does not have direct links to the spotify URIs, so I make calls to the /search endpoint for each song in order to get a UR...

  • Newbie
  • I have an app that maintains a ranking of my most played songs over certain periods. I get this ranked list from last.fm, which does not have direct links to the spotify URIs, so I make calls to the ...
  • ReubenF
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    authorization
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Constantly getting rate limit even after a few requests

I'm having very aggressively rate limiting issues with the Spotify Web API for my project, Even after creating a new application and implementing caching for most requests I'm still facing problems - After only 2-3 requests, I get rate limited for al...

  • Newbie
  • I'm having very aggressively rate limiting issues with the Spotify Web API for my project, Even after creating a new application and implementing caching for most requests I'm still facing probl...
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recently played pagination problem

PlanPremiumCountryUSADeviceiMac Operating SystemmacOS Sonoma 14.5 My Question or IssueI call the following command in a loop. it should stop when response['next'] is NULL: response = sp.current_user_recently_played(limit=50, after=int(cutoff_time.tim...

  • Casual Listener
  • Plan Premium Country USA Device iMac  Operating System macOS Sonoma 14.5   My Question or Issue I call the following command in a loop.  it should stop when response['next'] ...
  • tyro2001
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Spotify Remote SDK fails while connecting to Automotive spotify App

PlanFree/PremiumCountry DeviceAutomotiveOperating SystemAndroid My Question or Issue Our Team is building an app that connects to spotify app for playback control. Android spotify remote sdk not able to connect to spotify Automotive app. Internally t...

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  • Plan Free/Premium Country   Device Automotive Operating System Android   My Question or Issue   Our Team is building an app that connects to spotify app for playback control...
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Spotify random skips songs

Hi everyone, I'm running into a strange issue with a music guessing game we’ve developed that uses Spotify URLs. We format the links like this: https://open.spotify.com/track/{{trackid}} These links are embedded in QR codes. When scanned with a mobil...

https---open.spotify.com-track-030RDC2ayPOUM32F9IH7eE.png https---open.spotify.com-track-05pKAafT85jeeNhZ6kq7HT.png https---open.spotify.com-track-05qXhd5dgfDS5mDEf7dbfN.png https---open.spotify.com-track-07GvNcU1WdyZJq3XxP0kZa.png
  • Casual Listener
  • Hi everyone,   I'm running into a strange issue with a music guessing game we’ve developed that uses Spotify URLs. We format the links like this: https://open.spotify.com/track/{{trackid}...
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Getting more than 50 recently played songs from API

I'm using the Spotify API to get my recently played songs and would really love to be able to get more than 50 of them. Is there any way at all that I could do this? I'm happy to pay for it too. Thanks!

  • Casual Listener
  • I'm using the Spotify API to get my recently played songs and would really love to be able to get more than 50 of them. Is there any way at all that I could do this? I'm happy to pay for it too. &nb...
  • jverma
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    recently-played
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How does last.fm retrieve a user's full listening history?

From all the API calls available, I could find I got get recently played but that can retrieve at most 50 recently played songs.

  • Casual Listener
  • From all the API calls available, I could find I got get recently played but that can retrieve at most 50 recently played songs.
  • jverma
  • Casual Listener
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    API Help
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    Song History
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Location of settings files in Windows?

I have the Microsoft Store installation of Spotify for Windows installed.I would like to know the location of the settings files. When I search for information I see a lot of references to `%APPDATA%\Spotify` but I do not have that on my system. I gu...

  • Newbie
  •   I have the Microsoft Store installation of Spotify for Windows installed. I would like to know the location of the settings files. When I search for information I see a lot of references to ...
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    Windows
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Issue with API Usage for Managing a Large Spotify Account

Plan:PremiumDevice:PCOperating System:Windows 10My Question or Issue:I’m encountering an issue with the Spotify API while managing my account, where I follow over 2,400 artists. My project involves running a weekly script to check all these artists f...

  • Newbie
  • Plan: Premium Device: PC Operating System: Windows 10 My Question or Issue: I’m encountering an issue with the Spotify API while managing my account, where I follow over 2,400 artists. My proj...
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Upload Daily Podcast directly from datacenter

Hello!We like to upload, refresh and delete Podcast Episodes directly from our datacenter withou using the Webportal. Is it possible?Requirements on Spotify Side:- Server accepting Upload with ftp, sftp, sco, ssh, rsync ...- Authetification Key based...

  • Visitor
  • ..... - via API ?   Why? We have a running daily podcast system with episodes for Radio Broadcast. The public distribution is planned after the daily radio air time exclusive - relating on d...
  • cloudson
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Is it legal to use 30 second preview via API?

Hi, I'm creating an app and I wanted to know if it's legal to use the Spotify API to play a 30 second preview of the song.Basically I would insert a button with the words "Listen to song preview", and then I would have to insert something else?Can th...

  • Visitor
  • Hi, I'm creating an app and I wanted to know if it's legal to use the Spotify API to play a 30 second preview of the song. Basically I would insert a button with the words "Listen to song preview", ...
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    legal
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Fetching Multiple songs(Spotify API)

I just wanted to find out if its possible to fetch a whole bunch of songs based on the specified market and /or genre Like say for instance i wanted to fetch every Dance song released in Portugal in the past year,would this be posible ?

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  • I just wanted to find out if its possible to fetch a whole bunch of songs based on the specified market and /or genre    Like say for instance i wanted to fetch every Dance song released ...
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Spotify is becoming hard to use

PlanPremiumCountryCanadaDeviceIphone 13Operating System(iOS 18)My Question or IssueI hate how Spotify is becoming a tool to use Audiobook/Podcast. Like why am I being suggested podcast or audiobooks when I never listen to them. Where is my music.... ...

  • Casual Listener
  • Plan Premium Country Canada Device Iphone 13 Operating System (iOS 18) My Question or Issue I hate how Spotify is becoming a tool to use Audiobook/Podcast. Like why am I being suggested podc...
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Spotify Connect Zeroconf addUser Sonos

Is there some documentation somewhere on how the Spotify Desktop player connects to a Sonos device via Spotify Connect Zeroconf interface? The Sonos device is responding to all of the Spotify Connect Zeroconf commands (e.g. resetUsers, getInfo, addUs...

  • Music Fan
  • Is there some documentation somewhere on how the Spotify Desktop player connects to a Sonos device via Spotify Connect Zeroconf interface?  The Sonos device is responding to all of the Spotify C...
  • thlucas
  • Music Fan
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Please document that the API doesn't support Sonos devices

I realize there are probably good and/or legal reasons why you can't control Sonos devices via the Spotify API, but it is super-annoying to learn about this only once you're ready to try your code on various devices. Can this be better documented in ...

  • Newbie
  • I realize there are probably good and/or legal reasons why you can't control Sonos devices via the Spotify API, but it is super-annoying to learn about this only once you're ready to try your code on...
  • thlucas
  • Music Fan
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