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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...
Is the Upload Custom Cover Art API working for anybody?https://developer.spotify.com/console/put-playlist-images/Even when I try it here I get Error 400: Bad Request.
Is the Upload Custom Cover Art API working for anybody? https://developer.spotify.com/console/put-playlist-images/ Even when I try it here I get Error 400: Bad Request.
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Hey guys,I was looking through Spotify's API and noticed the Upload Custom Playlist Image endpoint allows a maximum 256KB payload.I'm relatively new to APIs in general; does this mean this call would only work if the image is smaller than 256KB? If s...
Hey guys, I was looking through Spotify's API and noticed the Upload Custom Playlist Image endpoint allows a maximum 256KB payload. I'm relatively new to APIs in general; does this mean th...
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Plan - PremiumCountry - USADevice - Lenovo (2012)Operating System - Windows 10My Question or Issue I'm using spotipy to grab album data, but I've now grabbed over 10k albums, and none of them have returned genre data. This seems unusual. Most of the ...
Plan - Premium Country - USA Device - Lenovo (2012) Operating System - Windows 10 My Question or Issue I'm using spotipy to grab album data, but I've now grabbed over 10k albums, and non...
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PlanPremium, open and free CountryAll countries DeviceMobile phones Operating SystemAll android & all iOS versions My Question or IssueWhen the app tries to refresh the token on startup it sometimes gives an 503 Service Unavailable error on the endpo...
Plan Premium, open and free Country All countries Device Mobile phones Operating System All android & all iOS versions My Question or Issue When the app t...
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PlanPremium CountryUSA Operating SystemMac OS Catalina I have a question related to the Spotify Web API. I am working on a small script in Python to create a playlist of random tracks. I have gone through the Authentication flow and used the refresh ...
Plan Premium Country USA Operating System Mac OS Catalina I have a question related to the Spotify Web API. I am working on a small script in Python to create a playlist...
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DeviceMacbook Pro, Early 2011Operating SystemMac OSX My site has a Spotify Embed widget. In Google Chrome, with a full-size browser window, it plays full tracks. However, if I decrease the browser window width to 375px, it only plays 30-second previe...
Device Macbook Pro, Early 2011 Operating System Mac OSX My site has a Spotify Embed widget. In Google Chrome, with a full-size browser window, it plays full tracks. However, if I decrease...
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Continuing on my search to build "all-songs-of-artist-in-my-library"-function I found another strange thing, maybe somebody can help:If I search for all albums of "Godsmack" (using /v1/artists/6gZq1Q6bdOxsUPUG1TaFbF/albums) I get quite a long list, c...
Continuing on my search to build "all-songs-of-artist-in-my-library"-function I found another strange thing, maybe somebody can help: If I search for all albums of "Godsmack" (using /v1/artists/6gZq...
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It would be useful to have an option in /v1/search endpoint to have exact matches (for instance concerning artists). Searching "artist:mad" would than NOT return "Madonna".Or allow the search to search for ID's, like "q=artist:2wPOgnQ6eW3X73uIJZ4YFE"
It would be useful to have an option in /v1/search endpoint to have exact matches (for instance concerning artists). Searching "artist:mad" would than NOT return "Madonna". Or allow the search to se...
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I'm using this api to add new track to playlist.https://api.spotify.com/v1/playlists/{playlist_id}/tracks But when I added 11,000 track successfully, there no way to add more. Is it limit track number per playlist?Why I get status code 500 but not 40...
I'm using this api to add new track to playlist. https://api.spotify.com/v1/playlists/{playlist_id}/tracks But when I added 11,000 track successfully, there no way to add more. Is it lim...
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I am working on some features for me app and one is to play all liked songs from an artist (see other post). While coding I came across the following "thing":I search for songs of "dikanda", with querytype=track and query "q=artist:dikanda" and find ...
I am working on some features for me app and one is to play all liked songs from an artist (see other post). While coding I came across the following "thing": I search for songs of "dikanda", with q...
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Greetings from the AudioTrig Team, AudioTrig Ltd. would really love to get started on the next steps for our application. We would love to give the go ahead for various social media campaigns but are yet to hear back from Spotify regarding the status...
Greetings from the AudioTrig Team, AudioTrig Ltd. would really love to get started on the next steps for our application. We would love to give the go ahead for various social media...
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PlanFree/PremiumCountryNetherlandsDeviceDesktop Operating SystemWindows 7, 8, 10 My Question or IssueI want to use the Spotify API to load music into my Jukebox that runs on Windows. What is the best way to authenticate the user to be able to get his...
Plan Free/Premium Country Netherlands Device Desktop Operating System Windows 7, 8, 10 My Question or Issue I want to use the Spotify API to load music into my Jukebox that run...
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Hi, I'm trying to remove the playlist's description by using the web API but every time I get { "error": { "status": 400, "message": "Attribute description is empty" } }What can I do to remove it?
Hi, I'm trying to remove the playlist's description by using the web API but every time I get { "error": { "status": 400, "message": "Attribute description is empty" } } W...
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I am in the process of switching my app over to use PKCE Auth Flow and ever since I did, each time I try to get an authorization code to use to obtain a token, I am being sent to the Spotify authorization page, whereas with the Basic Auth Flow, I was...
I am in the process of switching my app over to use PKCE Auth Flow and ever since I did, each time I try to get an authorization code to use to obtain a token, I am being sent to the Spotify authoriz...
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Please consider adding some extra options to https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/playlists/get-playlists-tracks/ to allow clients to search for tracks based on the date they were added. Something like: added_beforeadded_afte...
Please consider adding some extra options to https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/playlists/get-playlists-tracks/ to allow clients to search for tracks based on the...
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I want to find all songs of specific artist in the users library.Is there something I can add to the /v1/me/tracks-endpoint or do I have to do the filtering manually after retrieving the entire library?I know of the "fields" parameter, is there a "fi...
I want to find all songs of specific artist in the users library. Is there something I can add to the /v1/me/tracks-endpoint or do I have to do the filtering manually after retrieving the entir...
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Hi, I was able to use Spotify Auth on my ReactNative Expo app, so whenever i click the Login button and after login it opened a new page and i see INVALID_CLIENT: Invalid redirect URI, below is the code for my RedirectURI, would be glad to have someo...
Hi, I was able to use Spotify Auth on my ReactNative Expo app, so whenever i click the Login button and after login it opened a new page and i see INVALID_CLIENT: Invalid redirect URI, below is ...
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For songs that feature an animated GIF in place of cover art, is it possible to access those GIFs via the web API? I know we have access to cover at and other content but I do not see anything about GIFs.I think this would be a great feature for the ...
For songs that feature an animated GIF in place of cover art, is it possible to access those GIFs via the web API? I know we have access to cover at and other content but I do not see anything about ...
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