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Updating the Criteria for Web API Extended Access

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...

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Superuser Contribution Web Playback SDK Support for additional browsers

PlanFree/PremiumCountry Device(iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016)Operating System(iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.) My Question or IssueWhen can we expect the Web Playback SDK to move out of Beta and be available for Safari for M...

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Plan Free/Premium Country   Device (iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016) Operating System (iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.)   My Question or Issue When ca...

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Document 204 on "Get Information About The User's Current Playback"

When calling GET https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/player and the account doesn't have any device active/open, the endpoint returns a 204. However, this isn't documented here. It only lists a 200 status code. It would be nice to have this possible status...

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When calling GET https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/player and the account doesn't have any device active/open, the endpoint returns a 204. However, this isn't documented here. It only lists a 200 status ...

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Solved!!Superuser Contribution Incorrect link for "READ THE DOCS" for Search API

My Question or Possible BugThe link for "READ THE DOCS" for the Search feature is incorrect on this Features page. It shows an error - "404 Page not Found".There is an extra 'search' word at the end of the given link reference.Working Link is 'https:...

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My Question or Possible Bug The link for "READ THE DOCS" for the Search feature is incorrect on this Features page. It shows an error - "404 Page not Found". There is an extra 'search' word at th...

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/v1/me/player/currently-playing returning 401

Country: Canada DeviceMacbook Pro 15 inch 2019Operating SystemmacOS Big Sur 11.4 My Question or IssueWhen I call the spotify /v1/me/player/currently-playing api I receive a 401 response with message "Permissions missing". When I attempt to use the we...

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Country: Canada   Device Macbook Pro 15 inch 2019 Operating System macOS Big Sur 11.4   My Question or Issue When I call the spotify /v1/me/player/currently-playing api I receive a ...

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Using Spotify Web Api for Discord Bot

PlanFree/PremiumCountryTurkeyDevice(iPhone 6, Windows PC, etc)Operating System(Ubuntu 20.04, Windows 10) My Question or IssueHi, I am writing a bot for Discord with music capabilities. I create a play command to play music. I want to get track or pla...

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Plan Free/Premium Country Turkey Device (iPhone 6, Windows PC, etc) Operating System (Ubuntu 20.04, Windows 10)   My Question or Issue Hi, I am writing a bot for Discord with music cap...

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me/episodes is buggy! -> "total": 339 -> "items": []

Hi!who can explain this to me? + check the attachment picture....https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/episodes {"href": "https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/episodes?offset=0&limit=20","items": [],"limit": 20,"next": "https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/episodes?offset...

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Hi! who can explain this to me? + check the attachment picture.... https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/episodes   { "href": "https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/episodes?offset=0&limit=20", "items...

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Use of spotify platform to build an app that offer apple shareplay experience

Planpremium CountryallDeviceiPhone iPad and macOSOperating SystemIos15 My Question or IssueCan we use the Spotify SDK to build an application letting the user sharing music in a FaceTime call with the new feature of apple shareplay. Regarding the use...

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Plan premium   Country all Device iPhone iPad and macOS Operating System Ios15   My Question or Issue Can we use the Spotify SDK to build an application letting the user sharing ...

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iOS SDK enqueueTrackUri Incorrect call back results for adding a track to queue

When I add a track to the queue using following method:- (void) enqueueTrackUri: (NSString *) trackUri callback: (nullable SPTAppRemoteCallback) callback;The call back contains incorrect results, because in either case (song was added or not), the re...

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When I add a track to the queue using following method: - (void) enqueueTrackUri: (NSString *) trackUri callback: (nullable SPTAppRemoteCallback) callback; The call back contains incorrect resu...

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Android Device as "ANDROID" in player list

Suddenly a few weeks ago my mobile started to appear as "ANDROID" in my player list instead of the devicename. Anyone else having this issue? Running Android11 on OnePlus 8 Pro

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Suddenly a few weeks ago my mobile started to appear as "ANDROID" in my player list instead of the devicename. Anyone else having this issue? Running Android11 on OnePlus 8 Pro

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error 500 on create playlist

using the endpoint https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/#endpoint-create-playlist sometimes (50:50 chance since few days) throws a error Post "https://api.spotify.com/v1/users/userxyz/playlists": http: ContentLength=78 with B...

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using the endpoint                  https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/#endpoint-create-playlist     &nbs...

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Superuser Contribution Lost access to Spotify account that owns our app

PlanPremium CountryUSA We have lost access to the account that owns our developer app (client ID 9d6fd5c2bb744b3f875a480c16fabda4). The account was originally named "toneden", but we get a 429 error when we try to reset the password on the account an...

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Plan Premium   Country USA   We have lost access to the account that owns our developer app (client ID 9d6fd5c2bb744b3f875a480c16fabda4). The account was originally named "tonede...

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Superuser Contribution Do I have to wait for commercial app approval?

Hello all developers, As a person who started learning how to code 3 months ago, I built an awesome app for Desktop which is working with Spotify Web API. The app is complete and ready to release. It has no advertising etc. right now and follows bran...

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Hello all developers,   As a person who started learning how to code 3 months ago, I built an awesome app for Desktop which is working with Spotify Web API.   The app is complete and re...

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Solved!!Superuser Contribution 403 User not approved for app,

PlanPremiumCountry DeviceDesktopOperating SystemWindows 10 and Mac OS My Question or IssueWhen I'm using the Web Playback SDK I'm getting a 403 User not approved for app error everytime i try to call the API, And yes I did add the user into the Users...

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Plan Premium Country   Device Desktop Operating System Windows 10 and Mac OS   My Question or Issue When I'm using the Web Playback SDK I'm getting a 403 User not approved for app...

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Solved!!Superuser Contribution 403 Forbidden (User not approved)

PlanMyself: Premium StudentGroup members: Premium Family (Also tried premium trial, 3 months)CountryBelgiumDeviceDesktopOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueI use the "react-spotify-web-playback" library to generate a spotify webplayer for ...

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Plan Myself: Premium Student Group members: Premium Family (Also tried premium trial, 3 months) Country Belgium Device Desktop Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue I use...

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Solved!!Superuser Contribution 403 User not approved for app

PlanPremiumDeviceDesktop/AndroidOperating SystemWindows10/Android10 My Question or IssueWhen I'm using Spotify Web API (Get the User's Currently Playing Track) to get response, it always returns "User not approved for app". I have already added the a...

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Plan Premium Device Desktop/Android Operating System Windows10/Android10   My Question or Issue When I'm using Spotify Web API (Get the User's Currently Playing Track) to get response, i...

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Mismatch between web API docs and API behaviour

There seems to be a mismatch between the documentation of some of the returntypes of the web API and the actual return types: The docs for "get an albums tracks" says that it returns an album object. In reality it returns a paging object containing t...

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There seems to be a mismatch between the documentation of some of the return types of the web API and the actual return types:   The docs for "get an albums tracks" says that it returns an a...

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Returns wrong track ID when the same track exists in duplicate(GET v1/me/player/recently-played)

PlanPremium CountryJapan IssueThe following tracks look exactly the same, but have different IDs.A: https://open.spotify.com/track/7MuOSVDTgILDaWQmR4iLWo?si=c6b7bae2220c4a8aB: https://open.spotify.com/track/6sbugnLYosR8vG77QvmKZ5?si=f1ed7a238f56434a ...

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Plan Premium   Country Japan   Issue The following tracks look exactly the same, but have different IDs. A: https://open.spotify.com/track/7MuOSVDTgILDaWQmR4iLWo?si=c6b7bae2220c4a8a...

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Solved!! [Developers] Player API: No mention about the Spotify Premium condition

My Question or Issue Is there anywhere in the Web API documentationa mentioning about needing to use a Premium accountin order to send (some of the) Player API requests ? I have looked in the below sections:the entire Player API documentationthe guid...

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My Question or Issue   Is there anywhere in the Web API documentation a mentioning about needing to use a Premium account in order to send (some of the) Player API requests ?    ...

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Audio Features Endpoint not working in app

PlanPremiumCountryUnited StatesDeviceASUS LaptopOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueI am trying to hit the audio features endpoint for several tracks, however I am not getting anything back when I hit the endpoint from my app. I was gettin...

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Plan Premium Country United States Device ASUS Laptop Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue I am trying to hit the audio features endpoint for several tracks, however I am...

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