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Discuss building apps with Spotify APIs and SDKs
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...
PlanFreeCountryPortugal DeviceDesktopOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueHello, today i'm having an issue where i try to click the button "Edit Settings" for my app and nothing happens.If i check the browser's console (Chrome) i can see th...
Plan Free Country Portugal Device Desktop Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue Hello, today i'm having an issue where i try to click the button "Edit Settings" fo...
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Hi, I'm re-opening an issue that has been closed (#817), ignored (#1330, #538, Access to websockets - The Spotify Community, [Developer] Access to websockets for live playback... - The Spotify Community), or locked (#492) time and again. It appears S...
Hi, I'm re-opening an issue that has been closed (#817), ignored (#1330, #538, Access to websockets - The Spotify Community, [Developer] Access to websockets for live playback... - The...
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PlanPremiumDeviceDesktopOperating SystemLinux My Question or IssueI am trying to set the redirection URI of an application, but clicking the button "Edit settings" does not do anything. URL: https://developer.spotify.com/dashboard/applications/
Plan Premium Device Desktop Operating System Linux My Question or Issue I am trying to set the redirection URI of an application, but clicking the button "Edit settings" does not do an...
Casual Listener
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Trying to play a non-playlist URI via the https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/player/play endpoint is failing. How can we initiate album playback via URI?
Trying to play a non-playlist URI via the https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/player/play endpoint is failing. How can we initiate album playback via URI?
Casual Listener
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Hello, gyus! My name is Ildar, i'm junior React web developer. I need help with my pet project. In result i wanna see: if i click to genre, my app show popular artists of this genre ( take artists followers). But i don't know how can i build api requ...
Hello, gyus! My name is Ildar, i'm junior React web developer. I need help with my pet project. In result i wanna see: if i click to genre, my app show popular artists of this genre ( take artists fo...
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PlanPremiumCountryUnited Kingdom DeviceMacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012)Operating SystemmacOS Catalina 10.15.7 My Question or IssueHi, I'm running into a bit of a wall where I'm currently using a user's playlist (retrieved from /v1/playlists/{playlist_i...
Plan Premium Country United Kingdom Device MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012) Operating System macOS Catalina 10.15.7 My Question or Issue Hi, I'm running into a bit of ...
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Use Authorization Code Grant to get an access tokenUse this access token to upload a Playlist Cover Image for any playlist that the access token is valid for. You will get an error: 401 UnauthorizedUse the refresh token to get a new access token, rep...
Use Authorization Code Grant to get an access token Use this access token to upload a Playlist Cover Image for any playlist that the access token is valid for. You will get an error: 401&n...
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I am looking at the "fans also like"-functionality but I am unsure if it is in the API as an end point or if I need to combine several to get the result.Any suggestions?
I am looking at the "fans also like"-functionality but I am unsure if it is in the API as an end point or if I need to combine several to get the result. Any suggestions?
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In the link: https://api.spotify.com/v1/search?q=u%25&type=track&limit=1&offset=420what does the "25" mean? I bolded it
In the link: https://api.spotify.com/v1/search?q=u%25&type=track&limit=1&offset=420 what does the "25" mean? I bolded it
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Hello, I'm building an app for my three friends and I. We listen to an album a week and talk about it. I want to store the album we listen to, the artist info, tracks, etc, so we can give each album a one to five star rating and pick our favorite and...
Hello, I'm building an app for my three friends and I. We listen to an album a week and talk about it. I want to store the album we listen to, the artist info, tracks, etc, so we can give ea...
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My Question or IssueI'm working on a an app that integrates the Spotify Web API. was wondering if anybody knew how to or had any ideas on how to get a random song from the entire Spotify library using the API. Or instead of a totally random song, a s...
My Question or Issue I'm working on a an app that integrates the Spotify Web API. was wondering if anybody knew how to or had any ideas on how to get a random song from the entire Spotify libr...
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Hello, I made an API on ASP.NET who search tracks info. Sometime when I do a search request wuth my app i got nothing but with Spotify console i have tracks Exemple: Request:https://api.spotify.com/v1/search?q=CLEO%20LAINE%20LET'S%20SLIP%20AWAY&type=...
Hello, I made an API on ASP.NET who search tracks info. Sometime when I do a search request wuth my app i got nothing but with Spotify console i have tracks Exemple: Request: ht...
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PlanBoth Free/PremiumDeviceAny iOSOperating SystemiOS 11+My Question or IssueI am the developer of a popular music visualizer. Unlike Android, iOS does not have OS level support for music visualization, but I've noticed there are several apps now tha...
Plan Both Free/Premium Device Any iOS Operating System iOS 11+ My Question or Issue I am the developer of a popular music visualizer. Unlike Android, iOS does not have OS level support f...
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Hello everyone, I have got one question when implementing the Get Current Users profile . { "country": "SE", "display_name": "JM Wizzler", "email": "**bleep**", "external_urls": { "spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/user/wizzler" }, "followers": { "...
Hello everyone, I have got one question when implementing the Get Current Users profile . { "country": "SE", "displa...
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I am working on an application that works with past listening data and analyses it. Given that the only data about listening you can get is for the past 50 tracks, I resorted to downloading data through an information request and am then parsing the ...
I am working on an application that works with past listening data and analyses it. Given that the only data about listening you can get is for the past 50 tracks, I resorted to downloading data thro...
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Hi, I'm working on a React Native app for iOS and Android which interfaces to Spotify's API, and would like to make an animated logo which moves according to certain frequencies of the audio being streamed (e.g. a low-pass filter). I've got a library...
Hi, I'm working on a React Native app for iOS and Android which interfaces to Spotify's API, and would like to make an animated logo which moves according to certain frequencies of the audio being st...
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My Question or Issue Within the Artist Dashboard homepage, we have the dynamic "X people listening now" information displayed.With the current API features, is there a way to log/scrape this data continuously? I could not find anything related to thi...
My Question or Issue Within the Artist Dashboard homepage, we have the dynamic "X people listening now" information displayed. With the current API features, is there a way to log/s...
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My Question or Issue Endpoint: /v1/artists/{id}/albumsArtistID: 1Xyo4u8uXC1ZmMpatF05PJThe results return 'duplicate' albums, it has both the explicit and clean versions of the same album, is there a way to filter for the clean vs the explicit?
My Question or Issue Endpoint: /v1/artists/{id}/albums ArtistID: 1Xyo4u8uXC1ZmMpatF05PJ The results return 'duplicate' albums, it has both the explicit and clean versions...
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Premium, US lol is it just me or did the get users top tracks/artists: long-term used to return the users top tracks/artist of all-time but now just from the past few years? (i feel like something must have changed because Waving Through a Window was...
Premium, US lol is it just me or did the get users top tracks/artists: long-term used to return the users top tracks/artist of all-time but now just from the past few years? (...
Newbie
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When I access the link of a track ( "open.spotify.com/track/6F7tttrdq7aUdxXVeo0nKp") it gives autoplay.When I access a link of playlist ("open.spotify.com/playlist/0hDrHpihhI705nOPB2xayh") it does not autoplay. Is there any way to autoplay on the pla...
When I access the link of a track ( "open.spotify.com/track/6F7tttrdq7aUdxXVeo0nKp") it gives autoplay. When I access a link of playlist ("open.spotify.com/playlist/0hDrHpihhI705nOPB2xayh...
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