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Discuss building apps with Spotify APIs and SDKs
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...
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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PlanPremium CountryUS Operating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueWhen I try to use the /me/player/pause api endpoint it returns error 403 "Player command failed: Premium required" but the token I used to authenticate the request belongs to a prem...
Plan Premium Country US Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue When I try to use the /me/player/pause api endpoint it returns error 403 "Player command failed...
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Hello, on Spotify desktop if I try to reorder multilpe items in my queue by dragging them up, when my cursor hits the top of the screen it does not scroll upwards. This is very unintuitive, as sometimes with shorter queue it does work.I wish this was...
Hello, on Spotify desktop if I try to reorder multilpe items in my queue by dragging them up, when my cursor hits the top of the screen it does not scroll upwards. This is very unintuitive, as someti...
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I am using the Spotify iOS SDK and the Spotify app on my iPhone. iOS 15, Xcode 13.2, iPhone 13 Pro. when calling sessionManager.initiateSession(with: scope, options: .clientOnly) I get redirected to the Spotify app where my authorization fails (I see...
I am using the Spotify iOS SDK and the Spotify app on my iPhone. iOS 15, Xcode 13.2, iPhone 13 Pro. when calling sessionManager.initiateSession(with: scope, options: .clientOnly) &...
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It's been three weeks since a scope extension request was made. In the past these requests were responded to pretty quickly so I'm thinking something has gone wrong? It was for playlist-read-collaborative. I also need to submit a new one for playlist...
It's been three weeks since a scope extension request was made. In the past these requests were responded to pretty quickly so I'm thinking something has gone wrong? It was for playl...
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PlanFree/PremiumCountryIndia Device(iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016)Operating System(iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.) My Question or IssueI have submitted my Quota extension request, but rejected with the reason "to submit ful...
Plan Free/Premium Country India Device (iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016) Operating System (iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.) My Question or Issue ...
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PlanFree/PremiumCountry Device(iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016)Operating System(iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.) My Question or IssueI have tried requesting for quota extension for my app, but that time while submitting the we...
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 I have ...
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PlanPremium My Question or IssueHelloI am not making an application but i am doing school work in the form of a blog post that will show some data that i fetched from the API in the form of a table or some kind of plot.The code file that is used to f...
Plan Premium My Question or Issue Hello I am not making an application but i am doing school work in the form of a blog post that will show some data that i fetched from the API in the fo...
Roadie
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https://developer.spotify.com/console/get-recently-played/ is not giving me the latest played tracks anymore. Seems like it stopped updating a few hours ago. I've tried listening both in the desktop client and on mobile. I'm playing normal tracks (no...
https://developer.spotify.com/console/get-recently-played/ is not giving me the latest played tracks anymore. Seems like it stopped updating a few hours ago. I've tried listening both i...
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Hey everyone, I am building a feature on my website that would render my top ten played songs from the Get User's Top Items endpoint. Right now it's working fine with my Bearer hardcoded as an environment variable, however, as soon as that expires my...
Hey everyone, I am building a feature on my website that would render my top ten played songs from the Get User's Top Items endpoint. Right now it's working fine with my Bearer hardcoded as...
Roadie
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I'm not sure what's happening but every last request gives me 500 in my testing and every request before 500 is 302. Im using web api, python, and flask here. The code is bellow. It does provide a TypeError but I listed my code below if you can find ...
I'm not sure what's happening but every last request gives me 500 in my testing and every request before 500 is 302. Im using web api, python, and flask here. The code is bellow. It does provide a Ty...
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PlanPremiumCountryJapanDeviceMacbook Air (M1, 2020)Operating SystemmacOS Monterey 12.0.1 Nice to meet you."My user information(?)" suddenly doesn't work in "spotipy".For example, nothing happens inputing user id in "sp.user_playlists()", and "sp.user...
Plan Premium Country Japan Device Macbook Air (M1, 2020) Operating System macOS Monterey 12.0.1 Nice to meet you. "My user information(?)" suddenly doesn't work in "spotipy". For ...
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Hi, I'm trying to integrate the Web Playback SDK and play a video podcast, but when I specify the URI and play it - it only plays the audio. Is playing a video supported by the SDK? Thanks,M
Hi, I'm trying to integrate the Web Playback SDK and play a video podcast, but when I specify the URI and play it - it only plays the audio. Is playing a video supported by the SDK? &n...
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My web app is using the Spotify API to get all of the albums by multiple artists.I have to call https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/#/operations/get-an-artists-albumsThe number of artists can easily be in the hundreds. Becau...
My web app is using the Spotify API to get all of the albums by multiple artists. I have to call https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/#/operations/get-an-artists-albums The...
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PlanFreeCountrySpainDevicePCOperating SystemUbuntu 20.04 My Question or IssueIm trying to make an application web for eductional purpose.So far i tried this: '; $client_id = 'da145e8c4b304dc3875a8e79a062c927'; //$client_secret = ''; $client_secret = ...
Plan Free Country Spain Device PC Operating System Ubuntu 20.04 My Question or Issue Im trying to make an application web for eductional purpose. So far i tried this:  ...
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Hi, in a recent GitHub issue I was made aware that user IDs may contain hashes, and that when retrieving user information or e.g. playlists, one should URL-encode that hash to avoid passing it in as HTML id, which is stripped by the server. In the ca...
Hi, in a recent GitHub issue I was made aware that user IDs may contain hashes, and that when retrieving user information or e.g. playlists, one should URL-encode that hash to avoid passing it in as ...
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Hi, I'm running into a very weird issue with a playlist I created (uri spotify:playlist:40zpDuvEjmd5MxF9jrmo9R). I can't seem to make any changes to it any more, including updating the description (gives me an error: Failed to save playlist changes),...
Hi, I'm running into a very weird issue with a playlist I created (uri spotify:playlist:40zpDuvEjmd5MxF9jrmo9R). I can't seem to make any changes to it any more, including updating the description (g...
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Hello,I'm trying to use PUT https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/player/playto change a song using Axios, and I had provided the token, but I keep getting 401 error of token not provided. Here is the code that I was using: const putRequest = async () => { c...
Hello, I'm trying to use PUT https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/player/play to change a song using Axios, and I had provided the token, but I keep getting 401 error of token not provided. ...
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I am a long time Spotify Premium user. I am also a long time IFTTT user too.I have a number of integrations with IFTTT and Spotify and in June/July this year they all stopped working due to Usage limits being exceeded. In particular I have one integr...
I am a long time Spotify Premium user. I am also a long time IFTTT user too. I have a number of integrations with IFTTT and Spotify and in June/July this year they all stopped working due to Usage...
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Does anyone know how I could go about requesting additional data be exposed via the Spotify API? Has anyone seen this done in the past? I am running a Zap that tweets every time someone adds a track to a collaborative playlist, and I’d love to GET th...
Does anyone know how I could go about requesting additional data be exposed via the Spotify API? Has anyone seen this done in the past? I am running a Zap that tweets every time someon...
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